A Platform for Ethnically and Culturally Inspired Music
About "Stephen The Moor"
RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 19th 2021
The brand album CELESTIAL NAVIGATION SUITE tells a story of self-assertion and current societal challenges. And it incorporates Franck’s African musical influences into his style from all his eras. He sounds defiant, loud and proud and it is unmistakable that his inner, wild lion is fighting with the rigid structures of the Western world.
A short excursion into music history to understand Franck’s background better: Originally, Nigerian artists pioneered Afro-Rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This unique sound mixed melodic pentatonic guitar lines with African rhythms including typical African percussion instruments, which are rarely heard in western rock music. Franck’s earliest musical memories date back to this time, when the lines between tradition and modernity began to blur. CELESTIAL NAVIGATION SUITE combines the spacey sound of Pink Floyd with the bravado of the early Funkadelic.
These adventurous pieces are driven by surreal guitars..The psychedelic music does not get transfigured through the gentle but eerie vintage production … And the music, imaginary soundtrack of this past year, swaggers from Band of Gypsys style rock before leading us to Frippertronics-like sound images and progressive 1970’s keyboards. An Afro space rock odyssey for the mind, body and soul..
The brand album CELESTIAL NAVIGATION SUITE tells a story of self-assertion and current societal challenges. And it incorporates Franck’s African musical influences into his style from all his eras. He sounds defiant, loud and proud and it is unmistakable that his inner, wild lion is fighting with the rigid structures of the Western world.
A short excursion into music history to understand Franck’s background better: Originally, Nigerian artists pioneered Afro-Rock in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This unique sound mixed melodic pentatonic guitar lines with African rhythms including typical African percussion instruments, which are rarely heard in western rock music. Franck’s earliest musical memories date back to this time, when the lines between tradition and modernity began to blur. CELESTIAL NAVIGATION SUITE combines the spacey sound of Pink Floyd with the bravado of the early Funkadelic.
These adventurous pieces are driven by surreal guitars..The psychedelic music does not get transfigured through the gentle but eerie vintage production … And the music, imaginary soundtrack of this past year, swaggers from Band of Gypsys style rock before leading us to Frippertronics-like sound images and progressive 1970’s keyboards. An Afro space rock odyssey for the mind, body and soul..
