Following a phenomenal Splendour In The Grass appearance earlier this year, delighting the crowd with his smooth acoustic folk and soulful vocals, London’s Michael Kiwanuka is returning to Australia! Performing in Sydney and Melbourne in Apr
The album is a fascinatingly assured, resonant body of work; the highly anticipated follow-up from Kiwanuka’s acclaimed 2012 debut LP, Home Again. Having introduced himself and that voice to the world in 2011, with the raw soul of single ‘Tell Me A Tale’, Love & Hate is a record that sounds as though it has been unearthed from a long forgotten studio canister in the seventies, but is permeated with a timelessness that defies any artist of any specific era. The album takes Kiwanuka’s smooth folk-soul sound into darker territory. As the Daily Star noted ‘it’s an intense album that is impossible not to love’.
You can watch a live video for single ‘Love & Hate’ here
Earlier this year, Michael Kiwanuka and the legendary Nas collaborated to soundtrack Baz Luhrmann’s new Netflix drama series, The Get Down. Nas, the narrator of the series, draped his vocals over two of Kiwanuka’s tracks: ‘Rule The World’ and ‘Black Man In A White World’ for the show. Australian film director Baz Luhrmann is an avid fan of Kiwanuka’s music, inviting him to perform at The Get Down’s media launch in London, where he referred to Kiwanuka as a ‘genius’.
MICHAEL KIWANUKA MELBOURNE & SYDNEY SHOWS