SOURCE - Music CD

Album Overview
Award-winning saxophonist and composer Nubya Garcia is back with her much anticipated debut album, SOURCE. Her first release on the iconic Concord Jazz imprint, SOURCE is due for release on August 21, 2020. The album is produced by Garcia in collaboration with the celebrated producer Kwes (Nerija, Bobby Womack, Solange). Garcia returns with Joe Armon-Jones (keys), Daniel Casimir (bass) and Sam Jones (drums).

A collection of sonic mantras to live by, SOURCE is a deeply personal offering in which Garcia maps cartographies around the coordinate points of her identity, her family histories, grief, afro-diasporic connections and collectivism. SOURCE is fundamentally about getting grounded within yourself, so that you can be present with others. It's about a realization of personal and collective power: the evolution of the saxophonist’s values as she re-connects with herself, her roots and her community. Garcia digs deep to present an album with a global outlook: from London to Bogota, Caura to Georgetown, it's a record drawing inspiration from the many places Garcia calls home.

Her erudite blend of broken beat, soul, dub-step afro-diasporic sounds - from cumbia to calypso expands further on this record, all whilst never losing her deep jazz foundation. The album takes as much inspiration from Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter as it does from Flying Lotus, Calypso Rose, Mala and Nidia Góngora. SOURCE is about a radical, relentless belief in our capacity to surmount the individual and collective challenges we face now, and those to come.

Street date: August 21, 2020

TRACK LIST:
Pace (7:52)
The Message Continues (6:43)
Source ft. KOKOROKO (12:07)
Together Is a Beautiful Place To Be (7:36)
Stand With Each Other ft. KOKOROKO (3:37)
Inner Game (7:44)
La Cumbia Me Está Llamando feat. La Perla (4:15)
Before Us: In Demerara & Caura ft. Ms MAURICE (8:01)
Boundless Beings ft. Akenya (2:46)