'Texture Like Sun' is the follow up to the much-loved self-titled debut by Anglo-Mauritian producer, singer and percussionist Joseph Deenmamode aka Mo Kolours. The Guardian described 'Mo Kolours' as "the best album Curtis Mayfield never made with A Tribe Called Quest and Lee Perry".
Raised on the traditional sega music of his father's Indian Ocean homeland alongside records by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Michael Jackson, Mo Kolours adds hip hop, dub, soul and other electronic styles to his individual sound. His approach could find him placed alongside Madlib or The Gaslamp Killer but he would be equally happy in the company of James Blake, Erykah Badu, Theo Parrish or Moodymann.
On 'Texture Like Sun' Mo Kolours explores the power of loops and cycles through both music and lyrics. 'Pass It Round' is about giving and receiving, and the importance of depending on others. 'Orphan's Lament' is named after a Mongolian folk song, and Mo Kolours' own words urge the listener to "fall to get up again" among a set of inescapably linked opposites. The message may be optimistic or otherwise, depending on the listener's point of view. The theme also appears in his choice of cover versions as he reinterprets songs absorbed in his youth: 'Harvest For The World' by the Isley Brothers and The Stranglers' 'Golden Brown', from which the album title is derived.
Radio support expected from:
BBC Radio 1: Huw Stephens, Benji B, Phil Taggart
BBC 6 Music: Lauren Laverne, Gilles Peterson, Huey, Mary Anne Hobbs, Tom Ravenscroft, Don Letts, The Freakzone
BBC 3: Late Junction