Kabantu 'Freehand'
Album Launch
Last Show: Sunday 19 th June 2022
The Pheasantry (Chelsea)
Join Kabantu for the London launch of their second album: Freehand. Following Kabantu’s critically acclaimed 2018 release Of the People, Kabantu's second album Freehand uses a progressively liberal and diverse approach to reimagining world-folk music. Kabantu collectively cultivates the individualism of each musician magnetised into a gravitational collaborative output. Freehand musical sketching evolves to craft refined, original compositions, handmade by the musicians using voices and acoustic instruments as canvases to translate their artistic intuitions by ear. This music is about diversity and crossover, exploring the spaces without genre, name or convention. It is about uprooting, letting go and trusting the outcome of expression untampered by expectation; self-acceptance of a splintered creative identity within a globalised set of influences and musical heritage; rediscovery, reinvention.