{"id":51896,"date":"2020-05-29T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=51896"},"modified":"2022-03-11T11:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:08:39","slug":"zara-mcfarlane-black-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/zara-mcfarlane-black-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara McFarlane taps into her Caribbean roots for &#8220;Black Treasure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The UK\u2019s foremost Jazz Vocalist, award-winning singer- songwriter Zara McFarlane, returns with \u201cBlack Treasure\u201d, a song inspired by the singer\u2019s Jamaican heritage.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">Three years after the release of her last album produced by Moses Boyd, <a href=\"https:\/\/brownswoodrecordings.com\/\">Brownswood <\/a>jazz queen, Zara McFarlane is back with \u2018Black Treasure\u2019 &#8211; a fresh departure in her creative direction uniting her with experimental producers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJhqYvRCn-c&amp;list=PLOsTDkZa-eJmc5aVDuI85LPv8PCFP4vMY&amp;index=1\">Kwake Bass<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_VFcQH2f5cM&amp;list=PLCpuNqYzQMgrTznVtr4vv_FgMJ2NCuaCc&amp;index=1\">Wu-Lu.<\/a> A song that blends the rhythms of traditional Jamaican folk (Bruckins, Dinki Mini &amp; other Kumina) with a futuristic and syncopated production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Black Treasure\u2019 is inspired by an exploration of Zara\u2019s Jamaican heritage, which included an extended trip in 2018, meeting academics, and researching the early folk rhythms unique to the island. Her new sound is the culmination of this research and a reflection on how the history of Zara\u2019s ancestors affects her story today. As McFarlane expresses: \u201cBlack Treasure\u2019 explores how the echoes of colonialism still resonate in society today but it is also a declaration, proclamation and celebration of black British womanhood acknowledging what historically has been taken and what remains innate within.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-very-dark-gray-color\">After her critically acclaimed third studio album \u201c<em><a href=\"https:\/\/zara-mcfarlane.bandcamp.com\/album\/arise\">Arise<\/a>\u201d, <\/em>Zara McFarlane is here setting the new basis of her 4<sup>th<\/sup> album slated for release later in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3c255283-zara-mcfarlane.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3c255283-zara-mcfarlane.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3c255283-zara-mcfarlane-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/3c255283-zara-mcfarlane-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s foremost Jazz Vocalist, award winning singer- songwriter Zara McFarlane, returns with \u201cBlack Treasure\u201d, a song inspired by an exploration of the singer\u2019s Jamaican heritage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[41205,13188],"location":[8082,8230],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,10662,13178,9172,13187,8414,13180,8933,13183,13108,13185,13184,13186,13194,8449,13179,13173,13105,13106,13177],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51896"}],"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=51896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51896"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=51896"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}