Bonus disc

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Catalogue number

LSO5110-LP

Colour

Colour details

Red and Yellow

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-04-22

Signed copies

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Supplier GB

PIAS

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Standard:20

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822231511014

Total Cap

Red LPx2

Artist

Soweto Kinch

London Symphony Orchestra

Lee Reynolds

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Jazz

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LSO Live

LSO Live is a record label launched in 2000 that belongs to The London Symphony Orchestra. It was one of the first classical labels to embrace digital downloads in 2004. The label's recordings are owned by LSO Ltd, whose shareholders are the orchestra's players themselves. This unique ownership structure ensures that the musicians have a say in what gets recorded and released. LSO Live works with top producers and sound engineers to create high-quality recordings that capture the energy of live performances while maintaining a level of refinement typically associated with studio recordings.

With over 100 releases, LSO Live has collaborated with renowned conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Valery Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, and Bernard Haitink. Their dedication to excellence has earned them numerous awards including Grammy Awards, Gramophone Awards, BBC Music Magazine Awards, Classical Brit Awards, Opus Klassik, Orphées d'or, Chocs de l'année and Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

As pioneers in digital music distribution for classical music labels, LSO Live made their entire catalogue available for download. By seamlessly editing together multiple live performances, they capture the vitality of a concert experience while delivering exceptional audio quality. Whether you're an avid classical music enthusiast or new to the genre, LSO Live offers a diverse range of recordings that showcase the talent and artistry of one of the world's leading

Soweto Kinch is a British jazz saxophonist, rapper, and composer. Born on January 10, 1978 in London, England, UK, Soweto has a strong jazz background and is largely self-trained. He drew inspiration from influential players like Courtney Pine and had a chance meeting with Wynton Marsalis as a young teenager. With his love and understanding of hip-hop, Soweto combines the two genres to create an incredible performance.

In 2003, Soweto's jazz album "Conversations With The Unseen" received critical acclaim and was even nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize. He also showcased his talent on BBC Four TV as part of the "Jazz Britannia" series.

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About the release
 Recorded live at the Barbican during last year’s London Jazz Festival, White Juju is award-winning British saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch’s powerful new work for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra, written in response to lockdown, BLM, British history and the culture wars. The album melds Kinch’s distinct approach to jazz and hip hop with classical music—it draws broad inspiration from European folklore, the African Diaspora and divisive national myths to create a uniquely contemporary tone poem.
 In many ways, 2020 gave us all the opportunity to see our lives from a fresh perspective. From appreciating the natural world, to reassessing our work life balance and de-cluttering our homes, the nation began an overwhelming cleanse. A summer of racialised police violence, the murder of Sarah Everard and discussions around ‘essential’ workers meant the nation was beginning to draw causal links between, racism, misogyny, class and environmental degradation. This reassessment, contrasted starkly with government mismanagement, disinformation and a noisy and disorientating culture war—all provided rich inspiration for Kinch’s work, White Juju.
 Towards the end of the first lockdown, Kinch visited Liverpool, Salford, Hull and Cardiff with a small group of musicians and dancers, staging a socially distanced version of The Black Peril as an online festival. As he walked the streets, then denuded of pedestrians, he was immediately struck by imperial emblems, flags and statues in these British port cities—innumerable mock Elgin marbles, Queen Victoria statues, Union jacks and military monuments that, in the previous bustle of city life, went relatively unnoticed. 
 “It fascinates me how we’re all acquainted with an unspoken architectural and symbolic language of power” says Kinch. “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.”
 A big facet of Kinch’s music is the presence of humour, and through White Juju he invites listeners to join him in poking fun at these hypocrisies as he confronts awkward truths about a nation, but also to feel the catharsis of being truly freed from a spell.
 Further details
 The vinyl iteration of the album includes two coloured vinyl discs, one red and one yellow. The striking cover artwork is by the Artist and Illustrator, Sophie Bass, who designed the cover of Soweto’s last album, The Black Peril. The gatefold cover includes detailed notes from Soweto Kinch about the work.

White Juju

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