To celebrate the launch of his new album Nonagram, award winning alto-saxophonist and MC Soweto Kinch takes to the stage. A journey through the hidden world of abstraction, Nonagram is based around the nine-sided wheel (nonagon) and draws inspiration from the incorporeal concepts of mathematics, through shifting time signatures, harmony and tonality that explores how music gives form to ideas that can’t be seen in the nature. “A musical antidote that inspires us to see new visions of the surrounding world” Nonagram takes its name from a nine sided shape, a subtle and intelligent interaction that traverses the realms between art and science.

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“In an age where words, science or religion are often used to divide people, I’m largely inspired by these numerical and sonic aspects of music that transcend cultural differences. Whilst writing the Legend of Mike Smith, I had innumerable conversations about ‘dark forces’ controlling the music industry and keeping the populace as sheeple. Part of the inspiration is in injecting a musical antidote that instead inspires us to see new visions of the surrounding world”

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Soweto Kinch saxes, Nick Jurd d.bass, Ed Richardson drums

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Soweto Kinch is a tour de force of the contemporary British Jazz and Hip Hop scenes, with a list of accolades and awards including a Mercury Prize nomination, two UMA Awards and two MOBO awards for Best Jazz Act.

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‘A real tour de force’   ***** The Guardian

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'It's a clever and entertaining juxtoposition of idioms that kicks pure jazz and authentic rap into a brave new world'

The Guardian

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'Mr Kinch demostrates what England has to teach [the USA] about narrative Hip Hop. Don't sleep on Mr Kinch'

The New York Times
 

Kinch unites together his love for jazz, hip-hop and spoken word and 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. 

 

His skills as a hip hop MC and producer have also garnered him considerable recognition in the urban music world. He also presents BBC Radio Three’s new regular slot ‘Jazz Now’.

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In association with Cambridge Modern Jazz.