Heavy riffing collides with funk and soul for an extraordinary confessional.
antastic Negrito – real name Xavier Dphrepaulezz – hasn’t so much had a career as a journey that’s seen his sphere of reference move ever closer to his core. So while his 2016 album,, cast a sharp eye over his adopted hometown’s gentrification, its follow ups – the righteous howl of anger that is (2018) and the politically charged , which coincided with the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement two years later – were no less incisive in their condemnations of the social injustice and racism that continues to blight American society. Little wonder all three were bestowed the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. More recently, 2022’s multi-media project and its acoustic sibling told the 270-year-old love story of his seventh generation Scottish grandmother and enslaved African grandfather in 1750s Virginia.
