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One can’t help but admire the honest audacity of these lyrics. This song “Take Your Time” is from Culture Today, Edy Forey’s poetic urban-jazz debut album set for release on April 5th on So Soul Records. The UK-based duo enters the music scene with the clarity of self-knowledge, even if that knowledge comes from divergent artistic experiences.

Vocalist Edy Szewy and keyboardist Guilhem Forey believe music is sacred and musicians matter greatly. For this reason, several guest artists joined them on this record, including founding members of Snarky Puppy bassist Michael League and saxophonist Bob Reynolds.

Also, Sharay Reed, of the Funk Apostles, Femi Koleoso of the Ezra Collective and others provided significant contributions. Additionally, Bob Power whose distinguished resume includes Me’Shell N’degéocello, The Roots, D’Angelo, and Erykah Badu and many others mixed and mastered the duo’s entire album.

This very symbiotically creative bond between both parties immediately come to life on the opening track, the _____________ of The quest to fulfill their artistic calling throughout this album continues onward with the _____________ of Szewy and Forey are as different as they are alike. Szewy was born in Poland to an American father and a Polish mother. Her parents separated early, but her dad would send her CDs from America that you couldn’t find locally. By the time she moved to one of the cultural centers of Europe, Edinburgh Scotland, she had absorbed the very American grooves of TLC and En Vogue, enthralled with the songwriting and production skills of the likes of D’Angelo and Lauryn Hill, imagining that one day she could do it too.

Conversely, Forey, born in Paris and raised in Nantes, France was a child musical prodigy. Bach spiritually and emotionally pulled him in at the age of three—so much so that this classical music was almost scary to his immature mind. But by the time his grandfather introduced him to American icon Ray Charles and British guitarist Eric Clapton, everyone who heard him play realized he was a gifted pianist. Lyrically, Culture Today delivers a poetic perspective on life in the XXI century. It deals with the beauty and the beast of human nature and navigates the relationship between the physical reality and its invisible - spiritual - dimension. It is a manifesto of sober minded non-conformism that elevates authentic individuality to the forefront of being, all the while proposing Love as an the answer to Life.

www.edyforey.com