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First Netsayi’s voice hits you, then the personality, and they’re both as unexpected and invigorating as each other. In an entertainment world that seems to demand excessive ego as a prerequisite, Netsayi makes a refreshing change.
This year sees the release of Monkey’s Wedding on September 21st, Netsayi’s eagerly anticipated follow up to her widely-praised 2006 debut, ‘Chimurenga Soul’. Described as an artist ‘Brave enough to stand alone and be counted’ [Observer Music Monthly] who delivered ‘one of the finest debuts of 2006’ [The Guardian], Netsayi’s music is a subtly alluring blend of soul, jazz, folk and African influences. Drawing comparisons to a modern day Joan Armatrading and Nina Simone, Netsayi’s rich cultural background has shaped her as an artist of great creative inquisitiveness.
Monkey’s Wedding was recorded at the celebrated RAK Studios in North London with ever in-demand producers Jonathan Quarmby and Kevin Bacon (Sugababes, Finley Quay, The Pretenders). It marks an a distinct and appealing evolution of her style, successfully bringing together the full diversity of her musical influences and tapping her authentic experience of two very different cultures, in Zimbabwe and the West.
Netsayi on her Monkey’s Wedding:
“Monkey’s Wedding is really an evolution of the thematic and musical ideas, I began to explore on Chimurenga Soul. Musically, it is an album of hybridity - an attempt to process all my musical influences from home and the Western world into coherent and emotionally engaging music. Of course, such an effort has a political angle to it too - African music is appropriated, boxed, labeled and sold in the West. But I hope that Monkey’s Wedding confounds any such easy and frankly colonial classification. Thematically, Monkey’s Wedding treads similar territory, touching on all my experiences as someone who has lived in two very different cultures and, indeed, the no-mans-land between them”.
Exploring universal themes and concepts, Monkey’s Wedding is an album that transcends cultural boundaries with broad appeal. This is certainly true of first single, ‘Punch Drunk’ which deals with the idealized views of romance against the realities of being in a relationship, ‘Teenagers’, meanwhile, is a nostalgic tale of reckless youth hoping to escape the reality of their home lives, while ‘Weaves & Magazines’ is a daring metaphorical challenge to the stereotypical perceptions of the World Music establishment. The album also features a rendition of ‘Queremos Saber’, ( ‘We Want to Know’) Gilberto Gil’s contemplation of science and progress, and the African anthem ‘Ishe Komborera’, originally written by Enoch Sontoga.
Encompassing everything from love and relationships to displacement and alienation, Monkey’s Wedding reveals Netsayi as a fearless artist at the top of her game. Defiantly eclectic and defiantly herself, Netsayi’s honesty and authenticity shine through to truly unique effect.
Tracklisting:
1. Punch Drunk
2. Chosen Ones
3. Weaves & Magazines
4. Toy Soldiers
5. Money Drum
6. Ishe Komborera Afrika
7. Teenagers
8. Queremos Saber
9. Top Cop
10. Georgie
11. Don’t Wake Me Up
12. Jacarandas
Monkey’s Wedding is released through World Connection/Proper Distributions on September 21st.
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