Deadcoast jay malinowski biography

Jay Malinowski has announced his next release with the Deadcoast will be a family history-exploring concept album called Martel.

The Bedouin Soundclash singer unfurled his plans via the launch of a new website that leads you through a series of videos and sound clips previewing the set, which is due February 11, while also charting the journeys undertaken by his sailor grandfather, whose travels influenced the LP.

In a blog post, Malinowski explained that over the coming weeks he'll be delivering a series of letters written from the perspective of his grandfather, addressed to a granddaughter affectionately nicknamed "Kit." These letters will form the basis of the song double LP Martel, but are also apparently due to be published in a book called Skulls & Bones: Letters from a Sailor to His Long-lost Granddaughter.

"The premise of these lette