Kwaye has announced a new EP: ‘Love & Affliction’ is coming on 17th October.
Check out the video for teaser track ‘What Have You Done’ below; it features on the EP with five other new ‘uns.
“The video for ‘What Have You Done’ is about rediscovering identity,” says Kwaye, “through the movement and styling, we wanted to create a visual world where various parts of the African diaspora melded together. Each of the three looks is a reference to three different points in western black history that I never discovered in my western school books: the nude colours refer to colours worn on the plantations before slavery’s abolition in the US; the green and yellow outfits reference black music in the 70s, and the crossover/emergence of hip-hop in New York from funk and disco; the final looks are inspired by the global movement of black bodies in the 40s – from the Second Great Migration across the US, to the Windrush Generation which bought a wave of Caribbeans to the UK. African-inspired contemporary movement is the common denominator of all the different shots in the video, just as Africa is the root of black histories.”
The release will be followed by his debut live show at London’s Omeara on 30th October, tickets for which are on sale from Friday, 28th September.
