Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs a new programme devised specially for Bold Tendencies, a not-for-profit organisation based in the rooftop spaces at Peckham Multi-Storey Car Park, London.
He will perform with Harry Baker, an award-winning improvising pianist and composer in jazz, classical and new-music as well as four fellow cellists (Hadewych van Gent, Max Ruisi, Ashok Klouda, Desmond Neysmith) and English-Moroccan singer songwriter Zak Abel. The programme will open with the shattering harmonies and soaring melody of Bach’s "Komm, süßer Tod" (Come, sweet death…) written in 1736 for the German composer’s celebrated book of "69 Sacred Songs and Arias", presented here in a new arrangement by Sheku for five cellos. It will close with the Nile Rogers hit "Good Times", a utopian disco celebration from 1979 — for Chic, disco was more than a beat — it was “a new state of mind.”
