{"product_id":"zoh-amba-eyes-full","title":"Zoh Amba - Eyes Full","description":"\u003cp\u003eZoh Amba will release their Matador debut album, “Eyes Full”.\u003cbr\u003eIt is an album of tough and soulful songs that feel like a pure transmission from the heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving already become one of the most exciting saxophonists to emerge from NYC’s avant-garde scene, Amba is now letting their heart guide them back to their first instrument, the guitar, and to their hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee.\u003cbr\u003eThe music on ‘Eyes Full’ is distinctly, instinctively tied to that place: muddy, loose blues with sweet burnishes of Appalachian folk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn music, Amba is always striving for greater proximity to the divine.\u003cbr\u003eOn Eyes Full, they’ve never come closer.\u003cbr\u003eEvery song circles the idea of seeing and being seen.\u003cbr\u003eThe record looks closely at the lives of working-class folk in small towns who bust their asses off while trying to find any salvation they can.\u003cbr\u003e“I hope these songs touch people’s hearts,” Amba says. “They’re about people who really need to be seen and heard.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe record was tracked live at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, an hour from Amba’s hometown, with no overdubs.\u003cbr\u003eTheir best friend Kevin Hyland plays electric guitar, while drummer Jim White, whom Amba met on the streets of New York years earlier and now calls the closest thing they’ve had to a family, plays drums.\u003cbr\u003eThe three musicians rehearsed relentlessly, playing together all day, every day, “until we got real tight,” says Amba.\u003cbr\u003eWhite and Amba play interlocked, while Amba and Hyland weave around one another, Amba playing rhythm and Hyland playing lead; currents of life running alongside one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEyes Full is a lesson in how to look and to stay open to the universe, and to all the hearts that inhabit it.\u003cbr\u003eThrough Amba’s gaze, the album restores spirit and dignity to those who are often overlooked or dispossessed.\u003cbr\u003eAcross Eyes Full, Amba sings for people who rarely see themselves reflected back with tenderness.\u003cbr\u003eThe music carries an ache for communities pushed to the margins, for those growing numb or losing touch with their innermost sense of self.\u003cbr\u003eThese songs insist on sustained attention: on looking closely, meeting another person’s gaze, and refusing to look away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matador","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP Blue Indie Ex.","offer_id":57705143107916,"sku":"BLX-14151","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":57705143140684,"sku":"BLX-14152","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0841\/2738\/3884\/files\/Zoh-Amba-Eyes-Full.png?v=1780565856","url":"https:\/\/badlands.co.uk\/products\/zoh-amba-eyes-full","provider":"Badlands","version":"1.0","type":"link"}