A night of organic dance music.
Michael Sebastian - AFIYE Album release
Gabrielle Sey - Vapour EP release
Ken Gow/SlothBoogie - Afrobeat/Highlife DJ set
Expect a club night like no other, where the musicians improvise to move their audience. With elements of house, techno, afrobeat, jazz and world music; you won’t have seen music performed like this before.
Come down early to toast the sunset at Grow’s canalside terrace, before getting down the artists’ sonic offerings.
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Michael Sebastian - AFIYE album release
Michael Sebastian improvises organic dance music.
His music has the structure of modern electronic; the freedom of jazz, and the depth of world music.
After the first summer of freedom; playing at Latitude, Green Man, in an abandoned town hall, an ancient hobbit hall, and for five star Ibizan poolside sunset, Sebastian is currently preparing to release his latest album - Afiye.
If Four Tet was to make an afrobeat album using London jazz musicians this is what it would sound like. Abstract lyricism makes space for an experience that is sensory and emotive, and the narrative is the instrumental conversation.
The album is inspired by a tour of Africa, from Sebastian’s hometown Cape Town to Ethiopia to Mali, where he studied and performed with prominent local musicians, even having the honour of performing for the father of Ethio-jazz, Mulatu Astatke.
Afiye is an expression of years of musical interactions and insights from around the world. It will be released at ‘Flow’, his night of live improv dance music at Grow Hackney on the 22nd of October, celebrating with musical and moving collaborators.
Gabrielle Sey - Vapour EP release
“An outstanding artist and one of the most original records I’ve heard all year” (referring to her new single Patterns) -Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music South London-born singer/songwriter Gabrielle Sey describes her sound “like a round trip from London to Accra with a stop-off at a Cali Sunday Service”. She has gained attention from the likes of Gal-Dem and AFROPUNK - who premiered her debut EP “Break My Silence”. Sey is set to release her brand new EP later this year.
The Vapour EP is inspired by the book of Ecclesiastes. The hebrew word Hevel is taken to mean “steam, vapour, breath, foolishness, nonsense, absurdity, vanity” or, my favourite: “merest breath”. Ecclesiastes features the word 38 times, and it fits the tone of the project very well, though I have modernised it to 'Vapour'.
Each of the four songs explores a different kind of Hevel: the ever shifting lines of moral dilemma, the empty nostalgia that humanity can easily fall prey to, the boundless void between giving and following advice; and the disenchantment that comes with maturity.