#Soweto Kinch

[ceevee5]

Losing “Freeness” and especially “J-to-Z” is a wrench. But it’s five hours of weekday jazz programming being added. But it’s at 1130pm at night. But do people listen on broadcast or use online/app catch-up nowadays? It was too big. Jazz was too big.

[arablit]

Next Week: Palestine Festival of Literature's 'How Empires End'

Palestine Festival of Literature is organizing an event next Wednesday “to hear from crucial voices about the ongoing war on Gaza and what we can do to stop it.” The line-up includes writers Raymond Antrobus, Omar Barghouti, Morgan Bassichis, Mohammed El-Kurd, Soweto Kinch, Sabrina Mahfouz, Max Porter, and Kamila Shamsie. Find further information, including on where to buy tickets, on PalFest’s…

[sivavakkiyar]

Hi, this may well be an "of course I've heard this album already you fool" recommendation but just in case you haven't, I wonder if you might enjoy White Juju by Soweto Kinch. Hope you're having a nice day :)

No I’ve never heard that one! I’ll check it out though

[renatofilomena]

Samuel Blaser ROUTES ft. Alex Wilson, Soweto Kinch, Ira Coleman and Edwi...

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(Discus Music)As the UK saxophonist turns 70, he juggles abstraction and song forms with a starry cast including Xhosa Cole, Soweto Kinch, Corey Mwamba, Dave Kane and Hamid DrakePlenty of saxophonists learning the game in the 1950s made John...

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[forty5sixty]

Femi Temowo // From Akure to Soweto

The band on stage has barely played together but it's hard to tell. That's because the groove emanating from their instruments sounds too in sync and in time. In fact, had it not been for the confession of tonight's bandleader, Femi Temowo, not many in attendance would be privy to that anecdote. For today's multi-band musicians, spur-of-the-moment sets must be the standard. For the audience, it's a fascinating musical roulette wheel.

It's another episode of jazz re:freshed, one of London's longest-running live jazz and funk outlets and it's the first time forty5sixty has ventured to the platform's new home at Ninety One Living Room on Brick Lane.

It's a band featuring the likes of Sam Crowe (of Giants Are Real) on keys, the youthful LOX in the drummer's seat, and Moses Olukayode on talking and sakara drum duties, adding to Temowo's superb guitar work. Tonight's set reads like an ode to his place of birth, Akure in the southwest of Nigeria. Intertwining lyrics in English and Yoruba, Femi takes the audience back to his West African upbringing with songs like 'Abeg Jare', 'Ore' (Friend), and 'Bola'.

Having moved to London aged, Temowo was late to pick up the guitar at 17, and remarkably, his dedication to the craft saw him start playing professionally just four years later. Stints with saxophonist Soweto Kinch's quartet and as a session guitarist for an array of global artists whetted the appetite for Temowo's own compositions which arrived in due course. Mixing slick and melodic guitar chords, Temowo slides effortlessly between afrobeat, Nigerian highlife folk music, and fújì - a popular Yoruba musical genre.

Tonight represents new horizons for Femi Temowo and jazz re:freshed. New locations and new directions but always landing in the right pocket.

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article and video: Ade Bankole

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[magicalmysterymix]

Jazz & Jazzy Hip-Hop Mix by Dckne Feat. Da Grassroots, Grap Luva, Blu & Exile, Archie Shepp, Godfather Don, Soweto Kinch, Epidemic, Shamek Farrah, Pseudo Intellectuals, Avantdale Bowling Club, Alps Cru... "The idea behind this mix is to bring closer jazz enthusiasts and hip hop fans, by highlighting how the two genres are connected and work harmoniously when blended together." #hiphop #jazzhop #boombap #jazzyhiphop #jazz #jazzfunk #modal

[burlveneer-music]

Soweto Kinch - March of the Unicorns (Live) - a taste of the forthcoming recording of White Juju with the London Symphony Orchestra

Fri 19 Nov 2021 7.30pm - 8.55pm Barbican Hall, London Soweto Kinch White Juju (world premiere)*

Lee Reynolds conductor Soweto Kinch saxophone & vocals London Symphony Orchestra

The world premiere of Soweto Kinch’s new work for jazz quartet and chamber orchestra, written in response to the Black Lives Matter movement, Black British history and the past 18 months of lockdown.

Beginning with the deafening silence of quarantine in 2020, it conjures sounds such as a bird call in Central Park, and the statue of a slaver crashing into Bristol’s River Avon, interwoven with Kinch’s barbed, incisive lyrics. The piece is deliberately danceable and intentionally seeks to subvert expectations of orchestral music.

Kinch’s music melds his distinct approach to jazz and hip hop with classical music: drawing broad inspiration from European folklore, the African Diaspora and divisive national myths to create a uniquely contemporary tone poem. In the Guardian's 2019 review of Kinch’s The Black Peril, commissioned and performed with the LSO, they found that his music played ‘like a swirling montage, an effort to resist the linear narration of history’.

[casablancarze]

Lost the motivation to do anything bass-related for about a month, but have rediscovered my love for playing! Marking my return from this ‘hiatus’ with a sax and bass transcription of ‘Never Ending’ by Soweto Kinch :)

[ceevee5]

[channelwavy]

UK artist Reuben James drops “My Line” alongside Col3trane, Jay Prince, Vula and Soweto Kinch. The jazz/soul track is the first to be released from Reuben’s forthcoming EP, Slow Down.

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Makaya McCraven feat. Soweto Kinch - Where We Come From (International Anthem Recording Co.)

2019.

[affairesasuivre]

Orange is the New Black / Robert (Antelope Records, 2022)

La scène hip-hop alternative outre-Manche n’a définitivement pas fini de nous en mettre plein la vue. On doit la dernière baffe du moment à un MC qui a déjà de la bouteille (le garçon doit avoir une quarantaine d’années) et qui s’est choisi comme nom de scène un blase si peu street cred’ qu’il en devient incontestablement street cred : ROBERT. Et pourtant, Orange Is the New Black n’a rien d’une vieille couleur rafraîchie : c’est d’une authenticité radicale - une sorte de fusion, par le hip-hop, du punk, du blues et de la pop psyché (rien que ça). Aux manettes de cet OVNI, on découvre donc le fameux Robert, porté par les deux immenses producteurs britanniques The Purist (Danny Brown, Action Bronson, MF Doom, …) et Sonnyjim (Jay Electronica, Madlib, Roc Marciano, …), et bien entouré avec des features de cette île aux merveilles qui comprennent notamment Rag’n Bone Man, Soweto Kinch, ou encore Kool Keith.

Commencé derrière les barreaux de la prison de Channing Woods, le disque Orange Is The New Black partage bien un arrière-fond commun avec la série HBO éponyme : il retrace les réflexions sur l’existence qui ont accompagné un homme, un père et un artiste durant son voyage qui l’a conduit de la taule à la libération. Mais c’est aussi à son compagnon de cellule spirituelle “Osho” que Robert dédie le titre “The Bagwan” et la pochette de l’album. Fondateur du Rajneeshpuram dans l’Oregon, Osho était un gourou indien, et un prophète controversé (c’est un euphémisme - vous pouvez vous rapporter à la série documentaire “Wild Wild Country” sur Netflix). La biographie de ce gourou, dénichée dans un recoin de la bibliothèque de la prison, a servi d’inspiration, et de résonance mystique au rappeur originaire de Plymouth.

Car assurément, il y a bien quelque chose de mystique et d’introspectif dans cet album, en même temps qu’une violence renfermée, qui aurait trouvé désormais son chemin pour se sublimer dans l’art. C’est de cette rencontre que semble naître cette ambiance proprement exceptionnelle qui fait l’âme de ce disque : comme si les racines punk, blues et psyché qui nourrissent ses prods venaient s’entremêler pour construire l’atmosphère nécessaire au jaillissement de cette voix taillée dans les angles de l’accent britannique. C’est en ce sens que Robert appelait ses auditeurs dans une interview pour Babmag, à ne pas écouter Orange Is The New Black comme un disque de rap :

“Je veux qu’ils sachent que ce n’est pas un disque de rap […] écoutez-le comme vous écouteriez du punk, du blues ou du funk, asseyez-vous et écoutez-le sans préjugé.”

On n’a pas de meilleur conseil à vous donner, faites confiance à Robert, laissez-vous faire…

[sdws]

4th Stream Festival - Brussels 2018.

4th Stream is all about quirky jazz. At this brand-new festival you will hear local and international artists who test and gleefully overstep the boundaries of traditional jazz. They mix in different styles, including nu jazz, electro, funk, hip hop, nouvelle vague, free jazz, spoken word, ambient and even psychedelic or minimalist music… You name it, they’ve tried it!

If classical music is the first stream and jazz the second, then, according to the composer Gunther Schuller, any music form that mixes, distorts and expands both genres is the Third Stream. BOZAR decided to go one step further & show traces of almost every known music genre in the music that will be performed at 4th Stream.