Rina Mushonga shares new single ‘For A Fool’ from forthcoming album ‘In A Galaxy’ 15 Feb [PIAS]

Rina Mushonga

Shares new single ‘For A Fool’

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New album ‘In A Galaxy’ February 15th – [PIAS] Recordings

Promo copies available

Headline show at Shacklewell Arms, London – 19th March

Rina Mushonga ~ ‘For A Fool’

“her sound is as globally diverse as her nomadic nature” – DUMMY Premiere
“kicks off like a stroll through one of London’s many Sunday markets. Bursts of chitchat and laughter become instruments of their own, while brittle guitar plinks and deep plunges of bass evoke 1980s Afropop” – Pitchfork
“Rina Mushonga Effortlessly Straddles Genres and Identities” – Noisey
“sounds like a modern, more sincere version of tropical ’80s pop. For modern indie reference points, it’s also the kind of song that fans of stuff like M83, Tune-Yards, and Yeasayer will probably dig” – Brooklyn Vegan
“Catharsis is not an easy feeling to describe, but if there is a sound that came close to reproducing that feeling, it has to be the inspired merging of Afrobeats and Indie-electro by Dutch-Zimbabwean singer/songwriter Rina Mushonga” – Afropunk

Rina Mushonga releases new single For A Fool on January 16th through [PIAS] Recordings.
The Dutch-Zimbabwean pop innovator unveils the latest track from her imminent second album In A Galaxy on February 15th. Listen to For A Fool here
Having played a handful of low-key London shows towards the end of 2018, Mushonga makes her first UK live foray of 2019 when she plays London’s Shacklewell Arms on March 19th. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 16th January and are available to purchase here.
The track unraveling into shape at the end of the album sessions having existed in various guises over the years. Explaining the origins of the track, she says; “this is an old love song or rather heart-ache song. Old, in the sense that it was plucked into existence over a period of time- in parts fictional in others less so.” Mushonga adds further; “in a way it chronicles a betrayed lover tormented by the desire to trust again whilst acknowledging that everything has been tainted and can’t go back to how they were.”
London-based Dutch-Zimbabwean pop innovator Rina Mushonga reveals details of In A Galaxy, the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2014’s debut The Wild, The Wilderness. Inspired in part by having read Metamorphoses for the first time In A Galaxy draws upon an entire gamut of emotions, both on a personal level and across a wider perspective whilst leaning upon life experiences be it her somewhat nomadic upbringing, viewing world events unfold or family life and relationships. Full of reflections on the cosmos and our place within it, the album is the musical embodiment of these musings whilst she also admits; “there’s more than a passing nod to the opening text on Star Wars, but on the whole refers to how relative space and time are in how we interact – “Earth viewed as part of a galaxy binds us in humanity.”

The full track-listing for In A Galaxy is:
Pipe Dreamz
Good Vacation
For A Fool
In A Galaxy
Narcisc0
Tropix
Glory_
4qrtrs
AtalantA
Hey Coach
I miss u so much
Jungles
The album can be pre-ordered here

Released through [PIAS] on February 15, 2019, In A Galaxy is available on CD, limited edition pink vinyl and digitally via all reputable outlets.

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