Sang Awun - Sang Awun

Name: Sang Awun - Sang Awun
Uploaded: 2022-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Description: "Sang Awun" is the third track on Njhyi (SA Recordings, October 2022), the debut album by Nok Cultural Ensemble — a fluid collective founded in 2017 by Atyap Nigerian-British drummer and producer Edward Wakili-Hick (also known as Natcyet Wakili), a key figure in London's new jazz underground through his work with Sons of Kemet,…

2022 · UK Jazz Renaissance / Afrofuturist Percussion Era (2020–2023) · music video

2022UK Jazz Renaissance / Afrofuturist Percussion Era (2020–2023)London Afrofuturist Jazz / Afro-diasporic Percussion Collectivism

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"Sang Awun" is the third track on Njhyi (SA Recordings, October 2022), the debut album by Nok Cultural Ensemble — a fluid collective founded in 2017 by Atyap Nigerian-British drummer and producer Edward Wakili-Hick (also known as Natcyet Wakili), a key figure in London's new jazz underground through his work with Sons of Kemet, Kokoroko, and Steam Down. The album was named Guardian Contemporary Album of the Year…

Why it matters

Represents the peak of the post-2015 UK jazz renaissance's percussive avant-garde wing — a lineage running from Tomorrow's Warriors through Sons of Kemet, Steam Down, and Kokoroko into fully collective, leader-less ensemble formats. Njhyi and its tracks, including "Sang Awun," position percussion…

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