Michael Kiwanuka
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Marco Gray/Courtesy of the artist
Michael Kiwanuka
Marco Gray/Courtesy of the artist
- “Small Adjustments”
- “Floating Parade”
- “The Remainder of Me”
- “One and Solely”
Immediately on World Cafe, Michael Kiwanuka‘s right here to speak about his brand-new album, Small Adjustments. The English singer, songwriter and producer says his fourth file represents a interval of massive life adjustments, together with leaving London and fatherhood.
“I used to be subliminally considering of the worry of that change,” he says. “Can issues keep as they have been? Can I adapt? And it kind of turned the topic of the album.”
The Mercury Prize winner talks about how previous successes gave him the boldness to experiment along with his sound. Small Adjustments strips again a number of the manufacturing components from 2019’s Kiwanuka, bringing his voice again to the forefront. That manufacturing comes courtesy of co-producers Hazard Mouse and Inflo.
Plus, Kiwanuka shares what tune he initially thought was too tacky, however now’s one his favorites on the file.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Kimberly Junod. The online story was created by Miguel Perez. Our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.