Bird Head Son was what Anthony Joseph used to be called back in the Seventies when he was knee high to a grasshopper. He was given this bird name by people in the neighbourhood where he grew up in reference to Bird Head, his father, whose head was “said to be too small for his body”. Now it’s the title of his second album, an autobiographical collection of songs in which this son of Port of Spain looks back over the first steps and excitement of his youth in Trinidad more than twenty years after crossing the Atlantic to touch down in London.

Anthony’s spoken word and lyrical waxing take centre stage reminiscent of the Beat poets of a past generation. Voodoo funk and spiritual soul soak the occasion with vibes, horns and percussions leading the march at times lending ‘Bird Head Son’ to an atmosphere of free jazz invoking the spirit of black music pioneers like Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets and Pharoah Sanders.

The band recently supported Fat Freddy’s Drop, Seun Kuti and Egypt ’80 and took part in the Transmusicales Festival. Previous festival dates include North Sea Jazz, Blue Note Festival Paris and Rotterdam Jazz

SOME PRESS REVIEWS...

Few lecturers at London University can be as rowdily funky as Anthony Joseph. Backed by squawking free-jazz and supercharged percussion, the Trinidadian poet and academic struts, bawls and howls his way through his latest works – part Voodoo priest, part prize-fighter. If his magic-realist rants are hard to follow, there's something of the modern urban Rimbaud in this album's visionary energy. THE TELEGRAPH

"...delivered with skill and fearlessness" PLAN B

“A remarkable racket…some seriously raw funk” UNCUT

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Album Launch party – March 5th, Cargo London  
TOUR DATES: 4th April – The Peepul Centre, Leicester / 5th April - The Drum, Birmingham / 9th April – The Village, Dublin

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