This album intends to provide a sonic balm to listeners. A necessary emotional-audio experience for those who understand the fortifying power of love and its urgency, especially during dark and perilous times.
AKUA NARU
Friday 19 April 2024 2024
Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut (USA), Akua Naru’s journey to global poet began in an early upbringing in the Pentecostal church. Her powerful poetic lyricism, talent for storytelling and ability to integrate historical narratives into her music with unmatched eloquence have drawn the attention of scholars and activists around the globe.
akua naru’s latest feat is an album entitled, “all about love: new visions”, inspired by and an ode to Black feminist icon bell hooks and her titanic classic text of the same name, in which hooks examines society and its ideals of love. To honor and take up hooks’ understanding of “love as a practice of freedom”, especially in these times, naru’s forthcoming offering is a new vision for her love songs: recorded live by a large band ensemble supported by the highly decorated classical orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz.
Support: Illnoledge
Brothers and close friends Steve Hartley and Mill Voyance form Illnoledge together. They were born into a family with a rich artistic background and roots from West Indies and Suriname. They developed their own unique sound called ‘Akan Fu’. It incorporates elements of reggae, afrobeat, latin, and jazz.
