The Windrush Suite
Track Listing:
0:00 Dave Holland (Interlude)
1:34 The Vision they had
11:40 Bacchanal
19:44 Kevin Le Gendre (Interlude)
22:00 Out of Many
28:21 Purgatory
As I dug deeper into my research for The Windrush Suite, I began to notice that the information I discovered felt very familiar. I’ve experienced this history as conversations and photographs from my grandparents and other family members.
Their stories are attached to my memories of being at parties and gatherings. It’s 4D, it comes with the taste of food, the feeling of joy and pain, and the sound of laughter, music, dancing and dominoes.
This realisation altered my compositional approach and my focus shifted from simply telling a story to translating an experience while honouring both the faces I knew and the ones I’d never met.
Credits:
Renell Shaw (Composer, Bass Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Percussion)
Orphy Robinson (Vibraphone, Marimba)
Ayanna Witter-Johnson (Cello)
Samson Jatto (Drums)
Taurean Antoine-Chagar (Saxophones)
Nandi (Vocals)
Delycia Belgrave (Vocals, Tap Dance)
Coco Shaw (Director/Video Editor)
Jacob Gordon (Mix Engineer)
Michael Antoniou (Mastering Engineer)
Anu Ogunmefun (The Windrush Suite Album Cover)
Kathianne Hingwan (Artistic Producer)
Daniel Garel (Broadcast Technical Support)
Pauline Le Divenach (Marketing)
Maggie Allen (Marketing)
Sue Aperghis (The Windrush Suite Flyer)
Special Thanks:
Dave Holland (Interlude)
Kevin Le Gendre (Interlude)
Partners:
PRS Foundation
The Vortex Jazz Club/The Shape of Jazz to Come
Town Hall Symphony Hall Birmingham
Jazzwise
Bristol Arts Channel
Colston Hall
St. Paul's Carnival