{"product_id":"peace-places-kenyan-memories","title":"Peace Places: Kenyan Memories |","description":"\u003cp\u003eNyokabi Kariũki (b. 1998, she\/her) is a Kenyan composer and performer based between Maryland, New York, and Nairobi. Her sonic imagination is ever-evolving, with compositions ranging from classical contemporary \u0026amp; experimental music, to film, choral, pop, and explorations into sound art, electronics, and (East) African musical traditions. She embraces the title of composer-performer often, possessing a wealth of performance experience as not only a classically-trained pianist of 16+ years, but also as a vocalist and most recently as a player of several instruments from the African continent, including the mbira and djembe. Her art seeks to bridge her diverse influences — from her penchant for experimentation \u0026amp; improvisation, to her African upbringing and Western classical training — together into a mélange of accessible, evocative, and meaningful art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNyokabi on the EP:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI wrote ‘peace places: kenyan memories’ while away from home, Kenya, in the United States, during the pandemic. I found that imagining peaceful, gentle, memories from my 18 years of a childhood in Kenya became an earnest antidote to remedy homesickness and emotional fatigue — and almost naturally, these imaginations evoked a very visceral and creative response within me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom my childhood home in Nairobi, where my piano, gifted to me at age 8, still sits; to my father’s hometown of Kĩrĩnyaga (‘Ngurumo, or Feeding Goats Mangoes’) and my grandmother’s farm in Kiambu (A Walk Through My Cũcũ’s Farm); from holidays by the Kenyan coast (‘Galu’ and ‘Naila’s Peace Place’) to a few in Laikipia (‘Equator song’); these places find themselves crystallised in each track of the EP, most apparent through the inclusion of field recordings taken in respective place; but also in the music and lyricism of the pieces. But as I worked on this record, the more I realised that my mind was not only taking solace in imagining ‘home’ as physical spaces, but also in seeing that ‘home’ was in ancestry; in language and words; in family and friends; in the palpability of my instruments; in harmony but also dissonance, and of course, in music.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eA Limited Edition Run of 300\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eIce Blue Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eBespoke paintings\/artwork by Naila Aroni\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eGalu painting insert\u003c\/li\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003ePainting Photography: Nala Ayieta\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e SA053 -Artist-Nyokabi Kariuki\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: WORLD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: LP Blue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 9\/26\/22\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JIT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Love Vinyl Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49253885182194,"sku":"IAXR14-CYFX-70","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0830\/7018\/9810\/files\/nyokabi-kariuki-peace-places-kenyan-memories_9S0I6.jpg?v=1779630772","url":"https:\/\/discandvinyl.com\/products\/peace-places-kenyan-memories","provider":"DiscandVinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}