An award-winning saxophonist-composer, a highly-respected poet-rapper-mc, Soweto Kinch is the quintessential bridge between planets be-bop and hip-hop. Hailing from the UK, Soweto debuts Philly with his quartet to perform new works from his latest critically acclaimed project. Before its US release, WITNESS this world-class rising star perform The New Emancipation live and direct from the Bride!
Femi Temowo (guitar)
Karl Rasheed-Abel (bass)
Graham Godfrey (drums)
“The New Emancipation” draws its inspiration from 19th century work songs and early blues, exploring the modern resonances of the emancipation story. From debt/wage slavery, to creative oppression in the music industry and ideas of race in a post-Obama age it combines this rich musical inheritance and revisits it with stellar jazz ensemble and modern hip hop production.
The album features an prestigious international lineup, including Byron Wallen, Justin Brown (US), Eska Mtungwazi, Femi Temowo, Shabaka Hutchings and Harry Brown among others.
Citing influences as divergent as Duke Ellington, Madlib and Frederick Delius, it plants the power and significance of the blues firmly with modern realities. The piece is both an ode and polemic in Kinch’s words it sets out to ‘challenge the comfort and complacency of our modern world, when the same conditions that enslaved and emmiserated people 150 years ago are still powerfully in effect today. Yet above all its about celebrating the endurance and resilience of the human spirit.’
Purchase tickets here: http://www.paintedbride.org/events/soweto-kinch/
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