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zara mcfarlane - arise - brownswood records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz

1. Ode To Kumina
2. Pride
3. Fussin' & Fightin
4. Peace Begins Within
5. Stoke The Fire
6. Freedom Chain
7. Allies Or Enemies
8. In Between Worlds
9. Silhouette" (feat Shabaka Hutchings)
10. Fisherman
11. Ode To Cyril

Tracing the musical heritage of the Caribbean, Zara McFarlane explores her interconnected vision of the diaspora.

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On Arise , Zara McFarlane returns to a buoyant UK jazz scene with a head-turning third album. Exploring the musical possibilities of British-Jamaican identity, it’s a cultural exchange that’s born of London’s current musical climate. Released on Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood Recordings, it sees her working with much-feted drummer and producer Moses Boyd. Both rose through London’s Tomorrow’s Warriors programme, a finishing school for many young vanguards of the live, ascendant jazz scene springing up across the UK capital. Sharing Caribbean family heritages, it’s a product of their joint exploration of the meeting points between jazz and the rhythms of Jamaica; reggae, Kumina, calypso and nyabinghi, shaded with hints of the psychedelic.