Former Lighthouse Family Frontman Tunde Baiyewu Reveals Video For Solo Single ’Diamond In A Rock’
Thursday, 18 April 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
Million-selling former Lighthouse Family frontman Tunde Baiyewu has today unveiled the new video for his latest single 'Diamond In A Rock' (out April 29th).
The single is the second to be taken from Tunde's new album 'Diamond In A Rock' and has followed previous track 'Move' onto the Radio 2 Playlist. You can read what Tunde had to say about the new album in a recent Stereoboard interview, here.
Work on 'Diamond In A Rock' started a couple of years back with the Lighthouse Family, now signed to Sony Records following a hugely successful UK tour. Tunde had written a number of songs for the band’s new album, but while trying to put the pieces together in a major label atmosphere, he was reminded of the creative tensions and compromises of being in the band and decided any new material couldn’t be fully realised if he didn’t have control of the process. Instead, Tunde walked away from the group and went back to his roots, assimilating a lifelong love of the likes of Bill Withers with a mix of African and Western rhythms and textures.
The record was recorded in Portland (or “the new Nashville” as Tunde’s producer sold it), featuring an array of local artists: the critically acclaimed Catherine Feeny provides backing vocals to several tracks, with musical turns also coming from the likes of guitarist Jon Neufeld (from The Decemberists’ off-shoot Black Prairie). Tunde’s effortlessly soulful voice shines throughout – still as immediately recognisable now as it was in the heyday of The Lighthouse Family. Lyrically, the impact of marriage and children has mellowed his songwriting, quite literally transforming the vitriolic ‘Words In My Mouth’ (it referred to the tensions that ended the band) into something more reflective and loving.
Tunde Baiyewu’s distinctive voice comes from this rich, complex past, and on 'Diamond In A Rock', he finally begins to use it in the way you sense he’s always wanted to.
“Now is when I need to really truly say what I want to say, the way I want to say it, as best as I can.”
The album, 'Diamond In A Rock', is out now.
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