MICHAEL KIWANUKA RELEASES CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM KIWANUKA IN DOLBY ATMOS
KIWANUKA SHORTLISTED FOR 2020 MERCURY PRIZE
"a muscular, multilayered declaration of self-worth and reliance from an artist who has been open about his insecurities, both as a "Black Man in a White World," as he put it in a trenchant 2016 song, and as a rock and soul singer who was born into the wrong decade."
"On his third album, this London-born son of Ugandan immigrants fully secures his place as an heir to socially conscious dreamers like Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers. KIWANUKA is a song-suite that employs myriad musical palettes to explore the way culturally inherited trauma can invade the psyche, with love, self-awareness and righteous protest as the routes to soul survival."
- NPR
"Michael Kiwanuka's 3rd album is expressive wonder, an extremely successful example of being able to truly express yourself while possessing the talent in and around you for it to be more than a mere vanity exercise."
"his most fully-formed work, a meditative, expansive collection of synth-psych, blues-rock, stately folk that amounts to an early-career opus"
"Kiwanuka treats songs like ecosystems that stretch and flower after sunlight and soil tilling."
"one of the greatest albums of the decade"
Michael Kiwanuka's third studio album KIWANUKA (Interscope), produced by Danger Mouse and Inflo, has been released exclusively on Amazon Music HD in Dolby Atmos Music, which fans can experience on EchoStudioMichael. "I've never really experienced music like that before" reveals Kiwanuka after listening to the remastered album for the first time. Dolby Atmos is an audio technology that creates an entirely unique spatial music experience leveraging object-based sound to place the listener in the center of an immersive soundscape. This experience is available to Echo Studio customers subscribed to Amazon Music HD, the highest-quality listening experience available, which offers more than 60 million songs available in High Definition (HD), millions of songs in Ultra HD, and a growing catalog of 3D Audio. "This is the closest I've got to trying to achieve that feeling, where you just live literally inside the world that persons created" explains Kiwanuka, watch him experience the technology here. The mix was done by esteemed mixer Lewis Jones at famed Abbey Road studios in London.
Dolby Atmos Music is redefining how music is created and experienced. Listeners can discover hidden details and subtleties with unparalleled clarity. Whether it's a complex harmony of instruments placed around a listener, a legendary guitar solo that fills a room, a massive bass drop that washes over the audience, or the subtle breath a singer takes between lyrics, Dolby Atmos gives music more space and the freedom to unleash every detail and emotion as the artist intended.
KIWANUKA was shortlisted for 2020's Mercury Prize, a prestigious award that selects and celebrates the 12 best British albums of the year. KIWANUKA explores themes of self-love, empowerment, and the release of doubt and pain. The British singer-songwriter fuses sounds of Woodstock-era rock, Americana, early soul, woozy psych beats, and found audio samples for mesmeric sound and vibe felt exclusively in KIWANUKA.
Following its release, KIWANUKA obtained two 2020 BRIT nominations for Best Male Solo Artist, and Best Album, and made American daytime and late-night television appearances on The Ellen Degeneres Show and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. KIWANUKA saw well-deserved media praise from various outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The FADER, Associated Press, Vibe, HypeBeast, Magnet, INTERVIEW, Billboard, The Economist, The Nation, Flaunt, Sound Opinions, BUST, PopMatters, American Songwriter, PASTE, Relix, The Guardian Clash, GQ, NME and more, also landing spots on many best of 2019 lists.
This year, one of KIWANUKA's most timely tracks, "Final Days" was remixed by the revered artist and producer Bonobo - listen HERE. The song takes an introspective ride through the contrasts of pain and self-love/acceptance.
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