"A collection of raging exhalations": Tony Njoku announces EP A World of Bodies on Fire

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The EP follows his previous LP All Our Knives Are Always Sharp – which grappled with spiritual survival and cultural resistance - shifting inward. The four-track instrumental collection is built around electronic abstraction and cinematic composition, and concerned with what Njoku describes as the boundaries between body, self and environment.

"This EP was made on the back of some pent up rage and sadness I needed to let go of," Njoku says. "After burnout and disappointments I needed to scream, cry, laugh and move." The result, as he puts it, is "a collection of raging exhalations, quiet revelations, subtle smirks of humility, meandering through emotional temperatures, laments and meditations. The objective was to splurge on feelings and to move through the fire that was building up inside."

Alongside the release, Njoku continues his Conjuring residency at South London venue Club Cheek, an ongoing live improvisation series built around collaboration and spontaneity. The series draws together artists from London's experimental scene and is central to Njoku's broader practice of creating spaces for collective expression. The next instalment takes place 7 May, with Nkisi, Cameron Picton, Loraine James and Valentina Magaletti.

Njoku also has a run of European live dates ahead, supporting Puma Blue across the continent through May before a run of UK headline shows, taking in Bristol, Brighton, London, Manchester, Glasgow and Dublin.