Rina Mushonga shares brand new track Cassiopeia [PIAS] Recordings

Rina Mushonga shares brand new track Cassiopeia

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Rina Mushonga Press assets here~“Mushonga’s music summons multitudes” – Pitchfork 8.0“In a Galaxy is a record that takes you far beyond the borders of the world you’re familiar with, and into something altogether more colourful” – The Independent 4★“Jumps from Tracy Chapman-style folky musing to squeaky electro-pop to Roxy Music decadence, sometimes within the same song, yet it all fits together delightfully” – The Times 4★“Rina Mushonga Effortlessly Straddles Genres and Identities” – Noisey~

Having released her second album In A Galaxy earlier this year, the London-based Dutch-Zimbabwean pop innovator Rina Mushonga today shares brand new track, Cassiopeia.

Some four years in the making In A Galaxy draws heavily upon Mushonga’s global transience whilst latterly empowered by a self-confessed year of transformation – a myriad of ideas, personal experiences and reflection, both on a creative and human level transforms the minutiae of ordinary lives into a collection intelligent, relevant and diverse pop.

Although a new track, the origins of Cassiopeia have been around since those mad US elections in 2016. As she explains; “It sort of came up as a response to the infuriating, eye-roll inducing nonsense of it all and I eventually recorded and produced this in Amsterdam at my pal’s Sebastiaan Dutilh’s studio.” Going on to give some context she continues; “I think at the core this song is about resistance, about an army of ‘nasty women’ rising up. In my head the song kind of plays out like a heist movie with these bad-ass female assassins fighting the patriarchy and re-adjusting the status quo.” Alluding to the track’s title and in her own inimitable style she says; “In mythology Cassiopeia is an Ethiopian queen who’ll tell anyone who’s listening that she’s basically the hottest woman alive. This kind of self- love and confidence in a woman is often portrayed as contemptible. But Cassiopeia gives zero fucks about what people think and I guess I used that as a jump off point to address patriarchal institutions and machinations and how they all better watch out — Cassiopeia’s comin’ for ya.”

If you’re quick, you can catch Rina and her band on the final shows of Ibibio Sound Machine UK tour as follows:

October 08 NEWCASTLE Riverside 09 GLASGOW Classic Grand 10 LIVERPOOL Invisible Wind Factory15 CARDIFF Y Plas

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