{"id":41026,"date":"2018-08-01T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T01:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=41026"},"modified":"2018-08-01T18:06:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T01:06:54","slug":"neneh-cherry-reveals-new-song-video-kong-prod-by-four-tet-3d-massive-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=41026","title":{"rendered":"Neneh Cherry Reveals New Song &#038; Video &#8220;Kong&#8221; Prod. By Four Tet &#038; 3D (Massive Attack)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W6ivBXh1zGQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Neneh Cherry reveals her new song and video &#8220;Kong&#8221; produced by Four Tet and Massive Attack\u2019s 3D and directed by Jenn Nkiru.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kong&#8221; is a powerful and vital return to the musical conversation for Cherry. Over a dubbed-out synthesis of the musicals worlds of Four Tet and 3D she fuses the personal and political. She references the history of Colonialism as well as Europe\u2019s on-going refugees&#8217; crisis in a brave and timely protest song; one that uses empathy and compassion as its disobedient tools.<em> \u201cEvery nation seeks it\u2019s \/ friends in France &#038; Italy \/ and all across the 7 seas \/ and goddam guns and guts and bitter love still put a hole in me\u201d.<\/em> The track meditates on the West exporting armed interventions, inviting the listener to imagine the world of someone willing to take the risk to escape from the ruinous effects of their consequences. <\/p>\n<p>Director Jenn Nkiru is from Peckham, London  and is a fast rising star of the art and film worlds. She was 2nd unit director for Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z\u2019s internet-breaking APESHIT, following up on her visual work with Kamasi Washington on his latest album Heaven And Earth. <\/p>\n<p>The single artwork is by Wolfgang Tillmans the first photographer ever to be awarded the Turner Prize. He is one of the most important documentarian of his generation of London and Berlin\u2019s club and gay scenes. His recent musical collaborations include the photo artwork for Frank Ocean\u2019s 2016 album Blonde and the physical magazine that accompanied it Boys Don\u2019t Cry.<\/p>\n<p>Watch &#8220;Kong&#8221; above!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neneh Cherry reveals her new song and video &#8220;Kong&#8221; produced by Four Tet and Massive Attack\u2019s 3D and directed by Jenn Nkiru. &#8220;Kong&#8221; is a powerful and vital return to the musical conversation for Cherry. Over a dubbed-out synthesis of the musicals worlds of Four Tet and 3D she fuses the personal and political. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,6,25],"tags":[9465,7953,4887,9469,9467,9464,9466,9468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41026"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41029,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41026\/revisions\/41029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}