Michael Kiwanuka returns with the (sort of) self-titled KIWANUKA LP. One of our finest young voices.
‘KIWANUKA’ was recorded in New York, LA and London. Michael returned to the studio with Danger Mouse and Inflo, the same production team that combined so magnificently on Love & Hate, KIWANUKA finds a new assuredness in Michael’s writing, and takes the basic sonic blueprint of that last record to a dizzying new realm.
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Michael will tell you of his love for records that entwine their songs with incidental skits and shape-shifting spiralling outros, so the listener experience is almost that of listening to one long, dramatic song. KIWANUKA fulfils that winding, dream-like haze, unhurried.
KIWANUKA is Michael serving from the heart, from the mind, and from the soul.
On the album title, Michael explains "This album, it’s kind of a defiant thing; I’m engaging with who I am and I’m not going to have an alter ego, or become Sasha Fierce or Ziggy Stardust, even through everyone’s telling me I need to be this, that or the other. I can just be Michael Kiwanuka."

本名Michael Samuel Kiwanuka的麥可齊汪努卡，自幼受到吉他之神Jimi Hendrix、傳奇樂團The Band、民謠教父Bob Dylan、經典靈魂樂天王Otis Redding等人的影響，將靈魂、搖滾、民謠搖滾、節奏藍調等多元樂風全部融會貫通，並且放到了屬於自己的音樂中，呈現出獨一無二的風格。2012年，Michael Kiwanuka以首張專輯【Home Again重回家園】橫掃了德國(No.1)、比利時(No.2)、挪威(No.3)、法國(No.3)與英國(No.4)等歐陸各國的排行榜，同時也讓他因此登上了「BBC Sound of 2012」的寶座，並且成為了下一個世代的指標性人物，開拓出他音樂生涯的羅馬大道。不過，這些豐功偉業對於他來說只是音樂所帶來的附加價值，真正重要的是：持續創作與撰寫出獨一無二的音樂。為了能夠突破上一張專輯的框架，他嘗試了許多不同的新體驗：「透過新的方式與新的創作思維，讓我能在歌詞與旋律上進行更多冒險與探索，這增進了我作品的廣度和深度。」抱持著不斷突破的信念，Michael Kiwanuka以嶄新的方式進行著專輯的創作和譜曲寫詞，同時也與許多音樂前輩進行深度的交流，藉此吸取了豐富的音樂涵養；在經歷超過1300個日子之後，他的第二張個人專輯【Love & Hate愛恨糾纏】終於誕生了。

2012 debut album from the London-based singer/songwriter and winner of the prestigious BBC Sound of 2012 prize. Michael's voice has often been compared to the likes of Bill Withers. He's already supported many major artists including Adele.

英国灵魂歌手Michael Kiwanuka被英国媒体BBC评选为Sound of 2012。他在去年推出了EP “Tell Me The Tale”之后，成功与Communion Records签约。并且受邀参加了英国女歌手Adele去年巡演。今年1月1日，推出了专辑同名单曲“Home Again”。
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Michael Kiwanuka is a British soul musician who is signed to Communion Records. He has been compared to Bill Withers, Randy Newman, and Otis Redding, as well as Van Morrison and the Temptations. In January 2012 he won the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll.

Michael Kiwanuka is a British soul musician who is signed to Communion Records. He has been compared to Bill Withers, Randy Newman, and Otis Redding, as well as Van Morrison and the Temptations. In January 2012 he won the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll.

Michael Kiwanuka is a British soul musician who is signed to Communion Records. He has been compared to Bill Withers, Randy Newman, and Otis Redding, as well as Van Morrison and the Temptations. In January 2012 he won the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll.

There’s a moment on Michael Kiwanuka’s <i>Small Changes</i> that sums up the languid brilliance at the heart of the London singer-songwriter’s fourth album. It comes at the beginning of “Lowdown (part i),” its easygoing guitar strums and fluid bass groove stretching into life over what sounds like a spaghetti junction of distant conversations, as if Kiwanuka and his band have set up in the corner of the room and started playing, unprompted. As his warm croon wanders in, the background noise halts and the track gently glides into its soulful sway. It’s a neat summation of <i>Small Changes</i>’ unhurried elegance; this is a record that’s not designed to grab you by the collar but stops you in your tracks nonetheless.

Kiwanuka won the Mercury Prize for 2019’s self-titled third album, yet nothing about <i>Small Changes</i> suggests he felt any pressure to repeat the success. Instead, he sounds like an artist free to follow his muse wherever it takes him. Working again with long-running collaborators Inflo (Little Simz, Sault) and Brian “Danger Mouse” Burton (Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, The Black Keys) in studios in London, LA, and Connecticut, he strips away from <i>KIWANUKA</i>’s fully-formed psychedelic soul expanse and emerges with another masterpiece.

Early in his career, Kiwanuka followed the traditional singer-songwriter route of writing songs at home and taking them into the studio to get down on tape. There’s something looser and more free-spirited at work here—the trio starting from nothing and letting ideas blossom in the sessions. It has resulted in a record that inhabits its own sonic world, its mix of airy ’70s soul, orchestral folk, and minimalist ballads gently luring you in to its mesmerizing flow, everything elevated by Kiwanuka’s lightness of touch and melodic ease. There’s a spellbinding restraint to the way “One and Only” guides you to its string-laden outro, or how the mournful piano patterns of “Rebel Soul” lurk on the edge of the song, never stepping into the spotlight. Then there’s the way “Follow Your Dreams” lets its jubilant chorus drift blissfully by. At times, such as the moment when “Lowdown (part ii)” takes flight and unfurls into a Pink Floyd-esque epic with shimmering guitar flourishes, it sounds utterly timeless.

It’s a record that sees Kiwanuka glancing back to his youth, reflecting on doubt-filled teenage years and considering the advice he could give to his young self. But this is also an album that strides hopefully into the future, the sound of an artist in full control of who he wants to be.

“Small Changes” is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Michael's eponymous third LP, the Mercury Prize winning, and Grammy Award nominated “KIWANUKA”.
“Small Changes” was produced alongside Danger Mouse and Inflo, the team behind the globally acclaimed “KIWANUKA” and its equally acclaimed predecessor, “Love & Hate”. The new record was recorded between London and Los Angeles. The core trio made up of Kiwanuka and his trusty co-producers expanded into a wish-list ensemble that featured legendary bassist Pino Palladino (D'Angelo, John Mayer, Beyoncé) and Jimmy Jam of the iconic Jam and Lewis songwriting and production duo (Janet Jackson, Prince, SOS Band).
A welcome return for one of Britain's most talented of songwriters, most recognisable of vocalists, and most virtuosic of guitarists.

“Out Loud!” is a 3500-copy, limited edition album released exclusively for the 2018 Record Store Day. The album is comprised of recordings of Kiwanuka’s live performances at The Royal Albert Hall in May of 2017, The London Palladium in October of 2017, and The Symphony Hall, Birmingham also in October of 2017. The physical vinyl record includes a digital download code for “Cold Little Heart,” while digital versions of the album include the song as the first track of the album.