5052442022831

We Aren't Just

Matters Unknown

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Format: 2LP

Cat No: NS0025LP

Release Date:  28 October 2022

Label:  New Soil

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  5052442022831

Genres:  Jazz  Contemporary  

  • Description

    MATTERS UNKNOWN is the new project led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Jonny Enser.



    We Aren't Just is the debut album from MATTERS UNKNOWN – Jonny Enser from Nubiyan Twist's solo project. Over 14 tracks, it travels through Afro-jazz, celestial blues, soulful funk, electronica, hip hop referencing influences such as Mulatu Astatke, Pat Thomas and Tony Allen all of whom he has worked with via Nubiyan Twist.



    This album features some of the UK's finest young players including members of Nerija, Noya Rao, Golden Mean and COLECTIVA. For fans of
    Jazz is Dead and Emma-Jean Thackray. Every track on the album is inspired by a facet of Jonny's personal development; drawing from his relationship to the city, whether in the delta regions of the Mississippi river or along London's arterial Thames. The album is a material testament to the flexibility inherent to MATTERS UNKNOWN; it can be orchestrated to accommodate a 15-strong orchestra, replete with a string section to move you to the dance
    floor as Jazz originally intended, or stripped down to the bare bones of a trumpet and tuba-led quartet whose intentions remain all the same; to pierce into the audience's soul.



    Jonny is honest, often laying bare his personal plights with his physical disability and mental health, and the steep – yet rewarding – uphill climb as a musician and Jazz instrumentalist. We Aren't Just is a multi-faceted study of the self, one's relationship with the external world; the material, and the living within the inert.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. A Beginning
      • 2. Hewester
      • 3. Ardu
      • 4. Native
      • 5. WORLD
      • 6. A Divinity

      Disc 2

      • 1. Bump
      • 2. Other Side (feat. Olivia Bhattacharjee)
      • 3. Orange Triangle
      • 4. Apollo
      • 5. BlindSpot (feat. Mohamed Gueye)
      • 6. Shoulders Bob
      • 7. Presence
      • 8. Come As You Are (feat. Nadeem Din-Gabisi)