The English singer and guitarist with Ugandan roots took his time. But now Michael Kiwanuka has finished his third studio work. On 25 October the album with the simple title "Kiwanuka" is released. With eclipsed, the 32-year-old artist spoke about creativity in difficult times and the search for oneself.
"Kiwanuka" is an album in the style of the 1970s, the decade to which Michael Kiwanuka feels especially connected as a musician. It delivers songs that are subordinate to a basic idea. Kiwanukas "epic", timeless sound captures the past and at the same time points to the future. One notices on the album that Michael Kiwanuka is an artist who thinks about the connections between music and society.
eclipsed: Your album describes a place of peace and beauty. How did this place come about?
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The British soul singer and guitarist Michael Kiwanuka lets himself fall back deep into the late sixties with his second CD "Love & Hate". However, the topics he takes up in the process are highly topical. Seldom has timelessness been so focused and explosive as on this CD of a 29-year-old who exclaims: "Stop with no matter" and intervenes again. Between the pegs Pink Floyd and Marvin Gaye he ignites a firework of emotional drama.
eclipsed: The CD reflects the personal world of your experiences and emotions, but also anticipates global aspects of Brexit and the current race riots in the USA.
