BMJC 2011-12 Season!

Friday 11 May 2012: SOWETO KINCH TRIO

Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts
21 Kingland Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1UG

GIG STARTS AT 8PM
Tickets £14 (discounts available):
- in person via the Box Office in advance or on the night (subject to availability)
- by phone 0844 406 8444
- via Lighthouse website by following the link below

Book Soweto Kinch tickets online by clicking on this link

Soweto Kinch (sax, voice, loops)
Graham Godfrey (drums)
Karl Rasheed-Abel (Electric/Double bass)

Award winning alto-saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch is one of the most exciting and versatile young musicians in both the British jazz and hip hop scenes. Undoubtedly, one of the few artists in either genre with a degree in Modern History from Oxford University he has amassed an impressive list of accolades and awards on both sides of the Atlantic - including a Mercury Music Prize nomination, two UMA Awards and a MOBO for best Jazz Act in 2003. In October 2007, he won his second MOBO Award, at the O2 Arena, London where he was announced as the winner in the Best Jazz Act category- fending off stiff competition from the likes of Wynton Marsalis.

His skills as a hip hop MC and producer have also garnered him recognition in the urban music world: having supported the likes of KRS ONE, Dwele and TY, and being championed by the likes of Mos Def, Rodney P and BBC 1-Xtra’s Twin B.

Kinch’s projects also extend beyond recorded albums. Writing the score for Jonzi D’s Hip Hop Theatre production Markus the Sadist (2010), and Sampad’s In The Further Soil (2010), a dance-theatre. Kinch also wrote and acted in the latter piece, which toured throughout India for a month.

Most recently, he has collaborated with the BBC and Drum and Bass producer Goldie. By Royal Appointment was 3-part prime time reality music show, following Goldie, Soweto, Guy Chamber and Ms Dynamite as they discovered and coached a group of 12 vulnerable young mentees towards their first live performance before HM Prince Harry at Buckingham Palace. Kinch, described how the programme allowed him to extend his work as an curator and mentor, “it was a radically fresh approach to discovering and nurturing new talent, and an antedote to the usual pop formulae and manufactured music.”

His latest release The New Emancipation draws its inspiration from 19th century work songs and early blues, exploring the modern resonances of the emancipation story. From debt/wage slavery, to creative oppression in the music industry and ideas of race in a post-Obama age it combines this rich musical inheritance and revisits it with stellar jazz ensemble and modern hip hop production. It was number one on the Rise Best Albums of 2010.

http://soweto-kinch.com