Drawing on his love of 60s & 70s spiritual jazz, folk and soul, South London producer and composer Scrimshire announces his new album ‘Bring Our Light To Every Corner’, a quietly expansive record assembled across five years of writing, reflection and collaboration. ‘Bring Our Light To Every Corner’ unfolds slowly with care: voices drift through choirs, instrumental passages stretch outward, and the album moves at an unhurried pace that allows the music to settle and resonate.

“I wanted to create somewhere people could stay for a while,” Scrimshire explains. “A space that carries you gently through the record.” This patience reflects lessons Scrimshire discovered while touring, where audiences responded strongly to performances that allowed music to evolve slowly in the room. “I learned how powerful it can be to give music time,” he says. “When you create space, people step into it with you.”

The album gathers music created in different moments of Scrimshire’s life. Some pieces began as fragments left behind from other projects, others were written during the years surrounding his albums ‘Nothing Feels Like Everything’ (2021) and ‘Paroxysm’ (2023). Over time a thread began to reveal itself, connecting songs shaped by dreams, patience and the search for peace during turbulent years.

“I realised these songs had been waiting for each other,” Scrimshire says. “They were written across a long stretch of time but shared the same emotional space. When we finally put them together the record suddenly made sense.”

Though Scrimshire performs the majority of the instrumentation himself, the album is shaped by a wide circle of collaborators whose voices appear throughout the six pieces. Choirs appear at key moments, adding warmth and collective spirit. The title track gathers voices from Rob Hynd, Daudi Matsiko, Jay Brown, Faye Houston and Scrimshire himself, while another choir featuring Houston and Margomool appears later in the album.

Opening track ‘My Land Is Your Land, Your Sky Is My Sky’ features soprano saxophonist Jake Telford, with electric sitar from Mark Zentai and drums by Chris Boot, setting the tone for the record’s open, searching atmosphere. From a palette of clavinet, Moog and upright piano, the unmistakable voice of Dwight Trible leads ‘Asleep, A Dream’, joined by harpist Amanda Whiting and multi-instrumentalist Idris Rahman on flute and saxophone.

On the title track, ‘Bring Our Light To Every Corner’, Scrimshire invited close collaborators to sing over his initial vocal melodies, forming a choir that brings warmth and communal spirit to the piece. The title itself echoes a line Scrimshire encountered while reading Frantz Fanon’s book Black Skin, White Masks: “Our history takes place in obscurity and the sun I carry with me must lighten every corner.” The phrase resonated deeply with the atmosphere of the music.

Featuring Jessica Lauren on piano and Idris Rahman on flute and saxophone, ‘With Our Eternal Hope & Joy’ comes from a bright and joyful set of sessions. After leaving the track to percolate overnight, Scrimshire returned to find the song alive with energy. In the breakdown, Joshua Idehen arrives to deliver a brief but timely verse of enthusiasm before the final flourish. The album’s sense of musical conversation continues on ‘Your Heart Is My Heart, My Hand Is Your Hand’, where Scrimshire’s stripped-back Rhodes allows space for Indian classical vocalist Mahesh Kale’s mantra-like delivery.

The album concludes with the three movement, 15 minute ‘Awake, A Dream’, written in Scrimshire’s garden in spring 2025. Faye Houston delivers vocals with quiet restraint, providing the track’s meditative climax, which Scrimshire considers possibly his favourite work to date.

There is also an unintended yet mysteriously coincidental numerical thread running through the project. The album is set for release on 26/06/26, its title contains 26 characters, and its catalogue number is ALBF-LP026. Scrimshire didn’t set out to build the album around the number, but once the coincidences appeared they felt too curious to ignore. “I noticed it late in the process and it made me smile,” he says. “Sometimes records just develop their own strange lore”.

For Scrimshire, the album reflects a long process of creation, uncertainty and discovery. “The act of making music never really stops,” he says. “You keep writing, keep exploring, and eventually the pieces reveal the picture they belong to. This album feels like a moment where that picture became clear.”