'The New Emancipation' is powerful modern take on the history of slavery and emancipation, and as the first full-length independent release for Soweto Kinch Recordings it has very personal resonances. 'Emancipation’ from a limiting music industry, restrictive definitions of race, oppressive modern systems of finance is the thread that links all of the pieces.

"Soweto Kinch's particular combination of hipness, historical awareness and journalistic ability to join up telling fragments from contemporary life on the margins makes him an unusually powerful force as both a contemporary jazz musician and an unsanctimonious social commentator" John Fordham (The Guardian)