Following the critical acclaim of 2006's 'Victim Of Truth' ("As good as The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" - Sunday Times), Nneka's second album 'No Longer At Ease' is released on 20th July for the long hot summer of 2009, and its every bit as lush and visionary as her first.
It's a record on which brains, beauty and beats collide. It's a record that has already made its mark with chart success across Continental Europe and beyond. It's a record that Lenny Kravitz and Lauryn Hill both heard and said: 'I want this girl opening my show!' It's easy to see what got Lauryn and Lenny so animated. Nneka's music has still got a big splash of Bob Marley in the recipe, a measure of Nina Simone and a lick of Eryka Badu. But this time around there's more of the best ingredient - Nneka herself. Holding it all together is the emotional focus of her beautiful voice, located in a place somewhere between yearning and rage.
Nneka is appearing at Cargo, London on Thursday 23rd July and at Womad Festival, Wiltshire on Sunday 26th July.
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