Kassa Overall - Make My Way Back Home (feat. Nick Hakim & Theo Croker)

What this video is

Released March 30, 2023, as the lead single announcing Kassa Overall's ANIMALS (Warp Records, May 26, 2023), 'Make My Way Back Home' sits at the convergence of avant-garde jazz, hip-hop production, and experimental Black music discourse. The track features trumpeter Theo Croker and singer Nick Hakim — figures from the overlapping worlds of neo-soul, jazz fusion, and indie R&B — signaling Overall's role as a…

Why it matters

Represents a landmark moment in the Warp Records expansion into jazz-adjacent experimental Black music, alongside artists like Shabazz Palaces. The track encapsulates the 2020s 'backpack jazz' movement — a self-described genre coined by Overall — that treats live jazz improvisation and hip-hop…

The director

UNCANNY is the London-based studio practice of George Muncey (b. 1995, British photographer and documentary filmmaker) and Elliott Elder (interdisciplinary designer and animator with background at i-D magazine). The duo launched officially with an animated…