{"id":41977,"date":"2019-02-18T18:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/zara-mcfarlane-takes-us-to-the-east-of-the-river-nile\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:08:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:08:59","slug":"zara-mcfarlane-east-if-the-river-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/zara-mcfarlane-east-if-the-river-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara McFarlane takes us to the East of the River Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><em class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21303 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zara-McFarlane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zara-McFarlane.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zara-McFarlane-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zara-McFarlane-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zara-McFarlane-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Zara-McFarlane-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/em><\/h4>\n<h4><em>East of the River Nile,<\/em>\u00a0to be released on March 1st on <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/brownswood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brownswood Recordings<\/a><\/span> is\u00a0a blend of soul, reggae, dub and fine jazz.<\/h4>\n<p>Since her 2011 debut, <em>Until Tomorrow<\/em>, also released on Gilles Peterson&#8217;s Brownswood Recordings, Zara McFarlane has been considered a major talent on the British Jazz scene. Drawing from her Jamaican origins as well as\u00a0from the deep spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders,\u00a0she delivers four different reinterpretations of Augustus Pablo&#8217;s classic dub track.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Q9eYuY6U7E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just like the first\u00a0track available below, this new EP seems to be a convincing follow-up to her 2017 LP\u00a0<em>Arise. <\/em>Her crystal-toned vocals\u00a0guide the jazz drums and brasses, while Dennis Bovell dub effects space things out. This cover definitely adds to the original, while keeping its essence\u00a0and roots.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4248007724\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zara-mcfarlane.bandcamp.com\/album\/east-of-the-river-nile\">East Of The River Nile by Zara McFarlane with Dennis Bovell<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>East Of The River Nile\u00a0<\/em>will be out on March 1st on\u00a0Brownswood Recordings. Pre-order it on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/zara-mcfarlane.bandcamp.com\/album\/east-of-the-river-nile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Read Next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/hailu-mergia-taxi-to-ethio-jazz\/\">Hailu Mergia: Taxi to Ethio-Jazz<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21304\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-1010x1010.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/East-of-The-River-Nile-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>East of the River Nile,\u00a0to be released on March 1st on Brownswood Recordings is\u00a0a blend of soul, reggae, dub and fine jazz. Since her 2011 debut, Until Tomorrow, also released on Gilles Peterson&#8217;s Brownswood Recordings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[41205],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41977"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41977"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}