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Myele Manzanza - Crisis & Opportunity, Vol.2 – Peaks

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Format: LP
Catalogue No.: DM010
Barcode: 3663729166807
Release Date: 19 Nov 2021
Genre: Jazz / Nu-Jazz

180g black vinyl

Hot on the heels of the first instalment of his much-lauded ‘Crisis & Opportunity’ record series, world-
renowned drummer/composer, & producer/beatmaker, Myele Manzanza, now readies Volume 2 for release,
giving an insight of his new material with brand new single ‘Quinnies For The Boys’.

A founding member of Electric Wire Hustle, Myele has released four solo albums, and racked up tours and
collaborations with Jordan Rakei, Theo Parrish, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Recloose and Amp Fiddler
amongst others. Myele has developed a strong live presence in his new London base; his quartet has
shared stages with the likes of Hiatus Kaiyote, The Bad Plus, Alfa Mist, and drawing packed houses to top
venues such as The Jazz Café and Ronnie Scott’s.

Hailing originally from New Zealand, Myele made the move to London in 2019. Having tapped into the
vibrant scene of his adopted home with a top tier cast of young London based talent (including Ashley Henry
and additional contributions from the legendary Mark de Clive-Lowe) the resulting record 'Crisis &
Opportunity Vol.1 - London’ gained praise from the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs, Jamie Cullum, Huey Morgan,
The Guardian, Complex, Jazz FM + more.

‘Crisis & Opportunity Vol. 2 - Peaks’ now sees Myele join forces with Andre Marmot, Jay Phelps & Lewis
Moody, as well fellow Kiwi musicians Aron Ottignon, Matt Dal Din, Ashton Sellars (who similarly have now
found themselves living in the UK / EU) taking inspiration from the mixtape format (favoured by many cult
status producers and MC’s) and delivering thirteen doses of exhilerating, Jazz infused bottled lightning.
Frustrated by the confines of a planned approach to writing music, Myele was set on embodying a spirit of
collaboration and improvisation in the project. He explains “Often the most creative moments came when we
had worked our way through the tight trees & moguls of the composition and settled into the wide-open
powder trails of the vamp at the end of the piece. This process was also something that I used to do all the
time back in my home city of Wellington, New Zealand in clubs like Havana, The Matterhorn or The Rogue
and Vagabond in a style affectionately known as the ‘Welli Jam’. Just get a groove going with a few basic
chords and let the music go wherever it goes. As I had been bashing my head into a brick wall trying to
‘compose’ music, I realized that I could just say, “fuck it. I trust these musicians. If I give them the space,
then they’ll be able to fill it with good ideas”

With this new pathway opening up infinite possibilities to the outfit, the record quickly began to take shape.
Myele says “Funnily enough, over half of the finished album was recorded from excerpts of a single jam
session that was a little over an hour long. This was largely due to time pressure and deadline before the
studio had to wrap up, and no doubt we were exhausted after the amount of focus and energy taken to get
through my pre-composed material, but it’s funny how we can draw out some peak performances when
under pressure.”

Press / Promotion:
PR / Radio teams in key territories: Josh Byrne -- UK & USA
Online ads: £900 album budget - £150 per single.

CAMPAIGN SUPPORT SO FAR:
Cerys Matthews - 'Quinnies For The Boys' - BBC 6 Music
Lefto - ‘Back In The Days’ - Kiosk Radio:
Chris Phillips - ‘Quinnies For The Boys’ - Jazz FM
Mr Redley 'Quinnies For The Boys' Reprazent Radio
Tina Edwards - ‘Quinnies For The Boys’ - Worldwide FM
Papaoul - ‘Back In The Days’ - Worldwide FM
Simon Harrison - ‘Quinnies For The Boys’ - Basic Soul Radio
We Are Beyond Noise - News
Vibrating - Roundup Inclusion
Tinnitist - Thursday Mixtape
Apple Music Black Music Month – Apple News


Track-list:
A1. Peaks & Ferns
A2. Sit In Your Discomfort
A3. The People’s Changes
A4. The People’s Shadows
A5. To The Time Before
A6. When We Could Dance Together
A7. African Folk Song
B1. Back in the Days
B2. A Night in Berlin
B3. Two Chords & The Truth
B4. Quinnies for the Boys
B5. Ancestral Mathematics
B6. Crisis & Opportunity

Key Support for Crisis & Opportunity, Vol.1 - London can be found below if needed:

The Guardian - Interview
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/16/we-could-lose-it-all-uk-jazz-tries-to-get-its-groove-back-after-covid
Jazzwise - Review
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1XhzN1ZGI1F5vp6YkBeWDBthPisayUCno
Music Is My Sanctuary - Crucial Material
Jazz Revelations - Jazz Revelations Selects March 2021
Complex - Audio Premiere

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