A1. Wu-Lu, Lex Amor, Ego Ella May – ‘Legend’
A2. LayFullstop, Moroka, AJ Kwame – ‘Broadcast By Chocolate’
A3. Lord Tusk ft. Roxanne Tataei – ‘Know Ways’
B1. Kojey Radical, Shabaka Hutchings – ‘No Gangster’ (Produced by Kz)
B2. Mala, Joe Armon-Jones, Nubya Garcia – ‘Scratch & Erase’
B3. =CoN+KwAkE= – ‘Same Ol Samo’
B4. Maxwell Owin & Coby Sey – ‘Response to Michel’
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Untitled (18 Artists) is a collaborative album and youth engagement project featuring musicians from across the UK scene, exploring the enduring themes presented in the iconic work of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Released in collaboration with Anja Ngozi, Lonely Table and The Vinyl Factory with support from Arts Council England, the project looks at the intersection between different artistic mediums around a social purpose.
Specifically, it asks how the experience of visual arts can inspire the creation and development of collaborative music, particularly when oriented around urgent social commentary. Many of the featured artists attended the Barbican Centre exhibition Basquiat: Boom for Real, before being given a blank canvas to collaborate on tracks in response to his legacy.
Find out more:
lonelytable.net/features-1/2019/untitled-out-now
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Alongside the album, Lonely Table and Anja Ngozi worked in partnership with Ruff Sqwad Foundation and Spotlight youth centre to encourage the ideas and talents of the next generation through a series of workshops. Together we took seven 12-18 year olds to visit the Tate Modern to create music in response to what they saw. Two further tracks were created as a result of these workshops, exploring the approach and ideas of Basquiat.
More info:
lonelytable.net/features-1/music-in-response-to-art