Jonah Mutono's guest appearances

Jonah Mutono

Song of the Day

World Cafe Words and Music Podcast

KINDA NEAT

Ruleta Rusa

Sound & Vision

Damien Jurado

Jamila Woods

Jay Som

Ravyn Lenae

Richard Swift

Kamasi Washington

Sharon Van Etten

Laura Marling

Cherry Glazerr

Laura Veirs

Kevin Morby

Jorja Smith

Maggie Rogers

Nate Smith

Max Richter

OwlTail

Zara McFarlane

Música nueva para volarte la cabeza de BLOXX, Jonah Mutono, SieteNueve &amp; Messy Deprat, Jorge López Ruiz, Zara McFarlane. Presentada por Omar Morales.

#160: BLOXX, Jonah Mutono, SieteNueve & Messy Deprat, Jorge López Ruiz, Zara McFarlane

Jonah Mutono's recently released GERG is a deeply personal and beautiful record. Full of movement and life, GERG takes you on a roller coaster of emotions and musical stylings all carried by Jonah's wonderfully resonant voice and impressive range. Jonah's been bouncing around his whole life, raised between Philly, Uganda, Kenya, London, and stints in NY and LA, he's a rolling stone with a big bag of influence. A classically trained pianist, GERG also shows his depth as a producer and instrumentalist. We caught him during the tail end of the (first?) COVID-19 lockdown and he let us know this wasn't his first quarantine, he'd lived through it as a child in Uganda with the EBOLA crisis. Hear us talk about that, where the name GERG, comes from, writing plays as a child, his vast travels, and go see him perform "If You Mean It" live in studio on our YouTube channel now!  -Lee

<a href="https://twitter.com/jonahmutono" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jonah Mutono</a>'s recently released GERG is a deeply personal and beautiful record. Full of movement and life, GERG takes you on a roller coaster of emotions and musical stylings all carried by Jonah's wonderfully resonant voice and impressive range. Jonah's been bouncing around his whole life, raised between Philly, Uganda, Kenya, London, and stints in NY and LA, he's a rolling stone with a big bag of influence. A classically trained pianist, GERG also shows his depth as a producer and instrumentalist. We caught him during the tail end of the (first?) COVID-19 lockdown and he let us know this wasn't his first quarantine, he'd lived through it as a child in Uganda with the EBOLA crisis. Hear us talk about that, where the name GERG, comes from, writing plays as a child, his vast travels, and go see him perform "If You Mean It" live in studio on our YouTube channel now!  -<a href="https://twitter.com/kindaneat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lee</a>

Moses Sumney

Moses Sumney is out with the second part of his album, ‘græ.' Sumney, a Ghanaian American, was born in Southern California but spent portions of his childhood in Ghana. He spent the early half of his career in Los Angeles before moving to quiet solitude in Asheville, North Carolina. With different experiences and lives lived across the world, he is not a product of any of these places, but instead a product of a space not bound by geography. Like Sumney, ‘græ' doesn’t come from a clear musical lineage or space, rather it explores the multiplicity of feelings and influences one can have. ‘græ' is a rejection of black and white thinking and instead, a look at the spaces between.  “It’s essentially all about greyness, about the in between or marginal identity and not living on either side of an extreme,” Sumney says. We also hear from Jonah Mutono about his new record, ‘GERG.' Like Sumney, Mutono has lived in a lot of places in his life, including the UK, Uganda and the US all before graduating high school. Mutono now lives in California and has released an album under his full name, after previously releasing music under the alias, Kidepo. This album explores his journey through immigration and his sexual identity.Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/sound/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Moses Sumney is out with the second part of his album, ‘græ.' Sumney, a Ghanaian American, was born in Southern California but spent portions of his childhood in Ghana. He spent the early half of his career in Los Angeles before moving to quiet solitude in Asheville, North Carolina. With different experiences and lives lived across the world, he is not a product of any of these places, but instead a product of a space not bound by geography. Like Sumney, ‘græ' doesn’t come from a clear musical lineage or space, rather it explores the multiplicity of feelings and influences one can have. ‘græ' is a rejection of black and white thinking and instead, a look at the spaces between.  “It’s essentially all about greyness, about the in between or marginal identity and not living on either side of an extreme,” Sumney says. We also hear from Jonah Mutono about his new record, ‘GERG.' Like Sumney, Mutono has lived in a lot of places in his life, including the UK, Uganda and the US all before graduating high school. Mutono now lives in California and has released an album under his full name, after previously releasing music under the alias, Kidepo. This album explores his journey through immigration and his sexual identity.<a href="https://www.kexp.org/sound/" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/sound/</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Moses Sumney and Jonah Mutono on Inhabiting the Space Between