If you've ever experienced Caribbean seas on a sunny day, you know that sometimes a cold undercurrent can startle you even as you are sweltering in the heat. So this music has an overriding warmth, but a cool, refreshing feeling that mellows the spirit and invokes introspection… and sometimes, lost memories.
Shaw's music is decidedly Caribbean in the way it is completely at home while blending with ancestral cultures. He infuses familiar rhythms with unexpected beats and melodies that tell the story of a musician who has walked through the grand bazaar of world music, absorbing flavours to bring them home to add to a bubbling pot.