YOUSEF: A Product of Your Environment

Format: CD
Genre: House
Label: Circus Recordings
Release Date: 03.11.2012
Order Number: QGCIRCUSD022

A Product of Your Environment is a consistently strong artist album from DJ-producer-label head Yousef Zaher (his second, for the record). Though overlong at seventy-four minutes, the twelve-track collection (on his own Circus Recordings imprint) makes a solid impression due to the high production values and songcraft Zaher brings to its classic house sound. He builds on his own skills by including a number of collaborators in the project, including singers (Candie Payne, Charli Taft, David Williams, Alexander East, and Tom Crew) classical guitarist Neil Campbell, and jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock. In keeping with the album title, Zaher's clearly been influenced not only by the others with whom he's worked but also the global array of club environments he's found himself working within.