{"id":8490,"date":"2022-05-13T14:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bluenote.com\/?p=8490"},"modified":"2023-03-08T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T13:05:35","slug":"nduduzo-makhathini-releases-new-single-emlilweni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluenote.com\/nduduzo-makhathini-releases-new-single-emlilweni\/","title":{"rendered":"NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI RELEASES NEW SINGLE \u201cEMLILWENI\u201d FEATURING JALEEL SHAW; VINYL RELEASE OF &#8220;IN THE SPIRIT OF NTU&#8221; ANNOUNCED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nduduzo Makhathini<\/strong> has released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nduduzomakhathini.lnk.to\/Emlilweni\"><strong>Emlilweni<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d the third and final single to be revealed from the visionary South African pianist and composer\u2019s luminous new album <a href=\"https:\/\/nduduzomakhathini.lnk.to\/InTheSpiritOfNtu\"><strong><em>In the Spirit of Ntu<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, which comes out May 27. A <a href=\"https:\/\/store.bluenote.com\/products\/nduduzo-makhathini-in-the-spirit-of-ntu?variant=41627878293695\">2-LP vinyl<\/a> release of the album has been announced for October 7, pre-order now on the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.bluenote.com\/products\/nduduzo-makhathini-in-the-spirit-of-ntu?variant=41627878293695\">Blue Note Store<\/a>. Listen to the previous singles \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/NduduzoMakhathini.lnk.to\/Amathongo\"><strong>Amathongo<\/strong><\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nduduzomakhathini.lnk.to\/SenzeNina\"><strong>Senze\u2019Nina<\/strong><\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Makhathini employs fire as a motif on the album&#8217;s anchor track \u201c<strong>Emlilweni<\/strong>,\u201d which features a searing guest appearance by the American alto saxophonist <strong>Jaleel Shaw<\/strong>. \u201cSouth Africans have always thought of sounds as residing outside of burning fires. They would say <em>&#8216;during this particular time this was the soundtrack to this burning!<\/em>&#8216; I started thinking what it means for sound to no longer conform to residing on the borders of this burning&#8230; what does it mean for sound to emerge out of these fires?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project was conceived at a difficult time in South Africa, a time of confusion and conflict,\u201d he continues. \u201cIt was, once more, a period of burning fires, riots and massacres. In this sense, the music that I have composed is not surrounding these fires as a backdrop or soundtrack\u2014these sounds are part of the discourse. They project from the burning fires until the fires stop burning. What remains is what these sounds seek to restore. <em>Ntu<\/em> as a creative force that seeks to lead us to remember our essence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nduduzo Makhathini - Emlilweni (Visualizer) ft. Jaleel Shaw\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZzAPhuwkfsk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/www.bluenote.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nduduzomakhathini.lnk.to\/InTheSpiritOfNtu\"><strong><em>In the Spirit of Ntu<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is <strong>Nduduzo Makhathini<\/strong>\u2019s milestone tenth studio album, his second album to be released on Blue Note Records in partnership with Universal Music Group Africa following <em>Modes of Communication <\/em>(which <em>The New York Times<\/em> named one of the \u201cBest Jazz Albums of 2020\u201d), and the very first release on the newly formed imprint Blue Note Africa. A central figure of the country\u2019s vibrant jazz scene, Makhathini assembled a band consisting of some of South Africa\u2019s most exciting young musicians including saxophonist <strong>Linda Sikhakhane<\/strong>, trumpeter <strong>Robin Fassie Kock<\/strong>, vibraphonist <strong>Dylan Tabisher<\/strong>, bassist <strong>Stephen de Souza<\/strong>, percussionist <strong>Gontse Makhene<\/strong>, and drummer <strong>Dane Paris<\/strong>, as well as special guests including vocalists <strong>Omagugu <\/strong>and<strong> Anna Widauer<\/strong>, and saxophonist <strong>Jaleel Shaw<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Folding a range of concepts such as \u2018minor and major rhythms,\u2019 \u2018guided mobility,\u2019 \u2018active listening,\u2019 and \u2018ritualism\u2019 into the project, Makhathini draws on his background in Zulu traditions and intellectual curiosities to inform his engaging articulations. \u201cI&#8217;m grappling with these cosmological ideas as a way of situating jazz in our context,\u201d he says. \u201cI put out <em>Modes of Communication: Letters from the Underworlds<\/em> using the letter as a metaphor for the sounds coming from the underworlds. Previously, I had released <em>Listening to the Ground<\/em> which encored into this idea of listening as knowing. <em>In the Spirit of Ntu<\/em> is living in that paradigm of listening to the things that emerge from the ground. <em>Ntu<\/em> is an ancient African philosophy from which the idea of <em>Ubuntu<\/em> stems out.<em> Ubuntu<\/em> says: \u2018I am because you are.\u2019 It is a deep invocation of collectiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NDUDUZO MAKHATHINI \u2013 TOUR DATES:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May 30 \u2013 Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC<\/p>\n<p>June 3 \u2013 Blue Room, Kansas City, MO<\/p>\n<p>June 4 \u2013 Blue Room, Kansas City, MO<\/p>\n<p>June 7 \u2013 Take Two at Public Records, Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n<p>June 9 \u2013 Narrows Center for the Arts, Fall River, MA<\/p>\n<p>June 11 \u2013 Vermont Jazz Center, Brattleboro, VT<\/p>\n<p>July 8 \u2013 North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>July 9 \u2013 Marseille Jazz des Cinq Continents, Marseille, France<\/p>\n<p>July 12 \u2013 Jazz \u00e0 Vienne, Vienne, France<\/p>\n<p>July 15 \u2013 Nice Jazz Festival, Nice, France<\/p>\n<p>July 16 \u2013 Albinea Jazz Festival, Albinea, Italy<\/p>\n<p>August 6 \u2013 Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival, Ystad, Sweden<\/p>\n<p>November 20 \u2013 London Jazz Festival, London, United Kingdom<\/p>\n<p>November 23 \u2013 Barcelona Jazz Festival, Barcelona, Spain<\/p>\n<p>November 26 \u2013 La Spirale, Fribourg, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>November 27 \u2013 Kirchenmusikschule, St. Gallen, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>December 2 \u2013 deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium<\/p>\n<p>December 3 \u2013 Theatre de la Verriere, Lille, France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nduduzo Makhathini has released \u201cEmlilweni,\u201d the third and final single to be revealed from the visionary South African pianist and composer\u2019s luminous new album In the Spirit of Ntu, which comes out May 27. 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