Soweto Kinch shapes up for new album Nonagram with Roundhouse launch
Friday, September 30, 2016
Double MOBO winner and onetime Mercury Prize-nominated saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch returns with his new album, Nonagram, released on 21 November on his own label.
The album will be given its live launch at the Sackler Space, at the Roundhouse, Camden on 29 October.
The recording features his trio of US drummer Gregory Hutchinson and rising star UK bassist Nick Jurd, who appeared at Cheltenham Jazz Festival earlier this year, with additional musicians including rising star keyboardist Reuben James. The follow up to his hugely ambitious 2013 concept album, The Legend of Mike Smith, Kinch draws inspirations from the nine-sided shape of the album's title, and uses this as a launch-pad to explore a dizzying world of the 'incorporeal concepts of mathematics, through shifting time-signatures, harmony and tonality... exploring how music gives form to ideas that can't be seen in nature'.
Commenting on the album, Kinch has described it as a "musical antidote that inspires us to see new visions of the surrounding world. In an age where words, science or religion are often used to divide people, I'm largely inspired by these numerical and sonic aspects of music that transcend cultural differences."
As well as the album launch date on 29 October, Kinch will be performing two dates at the Cambridge Jazz Festival at the Hidden Rooms on 24 November and with the Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra at the Mumford Theatre on 25 November.
– Mike Flynn
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