Joseph Malik - Diverse Part 3

Ramrock Red Records

£21.58

Format: LP, Picture Sleeve, Printed insert
Catalogue No.: RRRLP005
Release Date: 08 Jul 2022
Genre: Blues, Soul, Folk

A1 - Cry when I’m on my own
A2 - Looking right back at you Pt.1
A3 - Reason To Be
A4 - I Quit My 9 to 5
A5 – Claro
A6 - Just to be free
B1 - Looking right back at you Pt.2
B2 - Battle Cry
B3 - Mixed Race Combination
B4 - Days of Future Past
B5 – Tavistock
B6 - Strange New Places

Joseph Malik’s Diverse Part 3 is the final instalment of a critically acclaimed trilogy he began in 2002. But this boldly uncompromising and musically accomplished album is also about the state of the world in 2021. The artist did not use any filters.

An emotional honesty lies at the centre of this deeply affecting audio-diary that references milestones in black music on both sides of the Atlantic, from Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On to Massive Attack’s Unfinished Sympathy to Young Disciple’s Road To Freedom. As is the case with these landmarks, Diverse Part 3, is unflinchingly personal and was born against the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter protests that took place in Edinburgh, where Malik has lived since the early ‘90s.

“It’s a document of our times,” explains Joseph. “All I was really doing was looking at our times and saying this is happening right here and right now! I was writing down what was happening around me, and saying this is what I’m feeling.