Tawiah “Recreate”

Tawiah has been around a bit. She’s toured the world with Mark Ronson as his featured vocalist, guested on tracks by Blood Orange and Cinematic Orchestra (amongst others) and dating back to 2007, has released 3 EP’s under her own name. Her official debut album “Starts Again” is being released this month, finally, via First Word Records. But frankly that title is too modest a reference for what this LP actually is, namely  Tawiah STARTS FOR REAL .“Recreate” is a cool beauty, craftily mixing neo-soul, and vintage Young Disciples while nodding respectfully in the direction of Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues” and Massive Attack’s “Safe From Harm”…which is to say it’s touched by a lot of brilliant things and is as fine a piece of soul as you’re gonna hear this year.