Nubya Garcia - Clarity (Single)

Picture Credit: Danika Lawrence

London saxophonist, composer and bandleader Nubya Garcia has shared gorgeous new single, ‘Clarity’.

The song is about wanting to find transparency during encounters with other people, and Garcia communicates this through delicate, unfurling strings meant to uplift your mood.  “Clarity is created, it’s not passive”, says Garcia.  “It takes continued communication and honesty - with yourself, with others, with whatever you choose to apply it to”.

Clarity follows recent single, The Seer, and both cuts are taken from Garcia’s anticipated new album, Odyssey, out 20th September on Concord Jazz.  Odyssey is - as the title suggests - an ambitious, epic journey.   In a largely male-dominated scene, Garcia has carved herself a prominent space and she invites other brilliant Black women to join her on this adventure, namely; Esperanza Spalding, Richie Seivwright and Georgia Anne Muldrow.  Odyssey is produced by Garcia and returning collaborator Kwes.

Describing Odyssey - the follow up to her widely-celebrated and Mercury Music Prize-nominated 2020 debut, Source - Garcia says; “It represents the notion of truly being on your own path, and trying to discard all the outside noise saying you should go this way or that way.”  It’s also inspired by life’s ever-changing, ever-continuing adventure; the twists and turns of living.  Musically, the album finds Garcia orchestrating strings for the first time, having fallen back in love with composition and then studied a vast array of orchestral sounds - the bigger, bolder result is a widescreen soundscape that traverses jazz, classical, R&B and dub.