Soweto Kinch

Soweto Kinch, London Symphony Orchestra, Lee Reynolds – White Juju (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:12:34 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © LSO Live

Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra and Serious, White Juju is made up of six new works for jazz quintet and chamber orchestra. 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 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 myth to create a contemporary tone poem.
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