Soweto Kinch and the LSO go symphonic for White Juju at Printworks

Saxophonist, rapper, poet and composer Soweto Kinch released his powerful and expansive jazz-meets-classical work, White Juju, with the London Symphony Orchestra, on 2 December, and has announced a new live performance of the music that will take place at Printworks, London on 16 March 2023. Premiered at the 2021 EFG London Jazz Festival, White Juju was written in response to lockdown, Black Lives Matter, British history and the so-called 'culture wars', and melds Kinch’s 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.

Kinch said of the project: “It fascinates me how we’re all acquainted with an unspoken symbolic language of power. How do these monuments or myths affect how we see ourselves as a nation? Naming the piece White Juju deliberately inverted ideas of the ‘savage’ or primitive. Perhaps the bizarre fetishes and obsessions of a cult religion are more visible in modern Britain than third world countries.”

Following its digital release, White Juju will be made available on vinyl on 14 April to coincide with Record Store Day on Saturday 15 April.

For more info visit printworkslondon.co.uk/event/lso-and-soweto-kinch-present-white-juju/