The outstanding Simon Green aka Bonobo has recently announced his sixth album “Migration” – a 12 track LP to be released on January 13th 2017 on Ninja Tune. The lead single is called “Kerala” and it samples the R&B vocals of Brandy. The album will be featuring a series of collaborations with Nick Murphy (Chet Faker), Rhye and Hundred Waters. Followed by the release of the LP Bonobo will start a four-month global tour with 21 European and 18 North American stops.
Green’s new album filled with both emotion and technical skills explores the nature of life migration: “Life has highs, lows, loud and quiet moments, beautiful ones and ugly ones. Music is a reflection of life. My own personal idea of identity, where I am from, and what home is, has played into this record and its migratory themes. Is home where you are or where you are from, when you move around?”
Green grew up in rural Hampshire with a father heavily involved in the British folk scene. He started playing different instruments at an early age and started DJing and producing after he moved to Brighton. He wrote his so far most successful LP “The North Borders” after he moved to New York, only to relocate once again after its epic tour, this time to Los Angeles. He had spent almost three years out on the road with no fixed home. All these live and DJ tours as well as his new home in a city full of people from somewhere else made “Migration” such a special record.
Migration is to him, “the study of people and spaces,” he expands, “It’s interesting how one person will take an influence from one part of the world and move with that influence and effect another part of the world. Over time, the identities of places evolve.” Green’s understanding of humanity and music lies in the core of his soon to be released LP, which can be considered as a statement of change and growth.
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