Live at Pop Montreal, in the waning days of the sticky 2023 summer heat, long before their debut album was available, the duo known as Groundsound took
, in the waning days of the sticky 2023 summer heat, long before their debut album was available, the duo known as Groundsound took the stage in bright, ruffled costumes that shimmered as they moved to the bass. The Riddim Writer—who, in another life, is Isis Semaj-Hall, literature professor at the University of the West Indies—drew the audience in alongside Gavsborg, a.k.a. Gavin Blair of the venerable Jamaican group, collective, and label Equiknoxx.
Groundsound straddles styles, forcing a reliance on way too many adjectives: poppy, poetic, bass-driven, housey, folky, electronic, organic, but all made to make you think and move, in whichever order strikes your fancy. It’s hard not to draw comparisons with dub, the Jamaican genre known for manipulation and rearrangement of sounds.
Whatever creativity emanates from Semaj-Hall is matched by Blair. The innovation and originality that informs Groundsound isn’t surprising—with production partner Time Cow , Blair has been instrumental in some of the most exciting Jamaican music of this century. From hardcore dancehall to the experiments in melody and rhythm , Equiknoxx takes the crew ethos seriously, drawing inspiration and assistance from a huge range of local talent—every project draws on the talents of the wider collective.
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