an album and an extraordinary artist

Brittany Davis’ first album is a very original record in which spoken sequences, songs, improvisations and reflections follow one another.

Brittany Davis has been blind since birth. This is not a detail: this is how his relationship to the world and to music is defined. In his very first album, it is therefore a question of images: Image Issueslike so many sketches, vocal notes or short sequences, from which his strong voice emerges from time to time.

The artist, of very modest origins, defines himself as non-binary, another pitfall in the way others may have considered him. But Brittany Davis has always put everything into her music: “I grew up in Missouri, and there was a lot of gospel, blues, classical, jazz, funk, rock… I always say music is my native language. I don’t even think not in terms of gender, but of pure expression.”

“Music has always been my friend. It accompanied me, gave me a rhythm and a reason for being. I didn’t study music, it studied me.”

Brittany Davis

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To the point of living only for her, even if he had never left the United States before last December and his concert at the Trans Musicales in Rennes… His first album is a rarity, almost a shock, as it does not conforms to any format. Co-produced with Pearl Jam founder Stone Gossard, but born entirely from his inspiration: “It’s literally my life pressed onto vinyl. It’s designed to be listened to or viewed like a movie, from start to finish. I produced every song, every tear, every scream, every shift in emotion. .. Every sound on this album comes from my heart, from my hands, from this body.”

Navigating with the same ease between all genres, Brittany Davis succeeds in telling the story of her life, its many pitfalls, with a very particular soul. It’s one of the most astonishing records of the year.