Various Artists - New Tangents In Kampala, London & Nairobi

Extra Soul Perception

£25.20

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: ESP005
Barcode: 5050580780613
Release Date: 22 Apr 2022
Genre: Neo Soul

01: K15 & Labdi Utokapo
02: K15, Lex Amor & Karun Hold On
03: Lynda Dawn Roses (XL Middleton Version) [feat. XL Middleton]
04: Maxwell Owin & Xenia Manasseh Probably Never (feat. Joe Armon-Jones)
05: Sola & Labdi Nanae
06: K15 & Lex Amor Inevitable Winters
07: Azu Tiwaline & Labdi Hewa
08: Lex Amor, Hibotep & Faizal Mostrixx Ancestry
09: Faizal Mostrixx & K15 Zone Maasai
10: Faizal Mostrixx & Karun In My Soul
11: Hibotep & Itsmdnyt Lunar Ritual
12: Faizal Mostrixx & Karun In My Soul (Ethiopian Records Remix)

Extra Soul Perception is a collaboration and community music platform which started life between the UK, Kenya and Uganda, and continues to grow and connect independent musicians worldwide. In November 2019, eight artists from Kenya, Uganda and the UK spent a week in Nairobi together exploring new tangents in soul music, the result was their 2020 debut EP 'New Tangents In Kampala, London & Nairobi Vol. 1'.

The growing collective is made up of Faizal Mostrixx (UG), Hibotep (UG), K15 (UK), Karun (KE), Labdi (KE), Lex Amor (UK), Lynda Dawn (UK) and Maxwell Owen (UK). Now with the with the addition of Itsmdnyt (UG), XL Middleton (US), Xenia Menasseh (KE), Sola (UK) and Azu Tiwaline (TUN), the collective are preparing to release their album 'New Tangents in Kampala, London and Nairobi', released 25th March.

Three years in the making, work started on the album at a writing camp in Nairobi, and was completed remotely over the course of the worldwide lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. The album celebrates the potential of collaboration, both in a physical and digital sense.

Innovators in their own fields, each artist brings unique knowledge and musical culture to the project, collectively they represent a broad spectrum of sound. The album reflects this via an inspiring mixture of beautiful soul, glitchy beats, spoken word and bumping instrumentals. Embracing the same values of the writing camp but through virtual collaborations, seeing 'soul' as much in the spiritual sense as the musical one, expanding the sound into new territories.