{"title":"Cassie Kinoshi","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1993 and raised in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. She attended Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, studying composition and graduating in 2015. She formed SEED Ensemble (now called seed.) in early 2016, shortly after graduating. She became known for her work with all-female jazz septet Nérija and Afrobeat jazz group Kokoroko, which she left in 2022 to focus on seed. She also leads six-piece band Brown Penny, which played at SXSW in Austin, Texas in early 2022. In 2017 she won the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Best Newcomer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2018 she won the Ivors Academy Award (formerly BASCA, British Composer Award) for Best Jazz Composition for Large Ensemble for \"Afronaut\". From 2018 to 2019 she was Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer at Dundee Rep Theatre and was part of the London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Scheme. In 2019 SEED Ensemble's debut album \u003cem\u003eDriftglass\u003c\/em\u003e was released via Jazz Re:freshed and was nominated for the Hyundai Mercury Prize. She won Jazz FM Breakthrough Act of the Year in 2019. In 2020 she was nominated for Jazz FM UK Jazz Act of the Year and Album of the Year. In 2021 she won the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composer Award. In 2023 she premiered the commissioned work \"gratitude\" at a sold-out Southbank Centre Purcell Room. Written for seed., turntablist NikNak, and members of the London Contemporary Orchestra, with visuals by artist GURIBOSH, the piece was inspired by her mother's practice of keeping a gratitude book and focuses on mental health and mindfulness. The album \u003cem\u003egratitude\u003c\/em\u003e was released in March 2024 via Chicago-based label International Anthem. She composes for theatre including the National Theatre, the Old Vic Theatre, and the London Symphony Orchestra. She works as an educator and workshop leader.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cassie-kinoshis-seed-gratitude-2024-international-anthem-vinyl-lp","title":"Cassie Kinoshi's seed. - Gratitude (2024 International Anthem Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCassie Kinoshi's seed. - \u003cem\u003eGratitude\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - 2024 International Anthem (IARC0081)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCassie Kinoshi founded seed. in 2016. She studied composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire under Andrew Poppy and Stephen Montague, and has since composed for London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Jazz Festival. She was previously a member of Kokoroko and received a Mercury Prize nomination in 2019 for seed.'s debut album \u003cem\u003eDriftglass\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eGratitude\u003c\/em\u003e is her first record for International Anthem and was commissioned by the Southbank Centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe commission was for a suite Kinoshi could perform with seed. in the Purcell Room. She wrote it as a personal document — her mother keeps a daily gratitude book, and the composition draws directly on that practice as a way of working through her own relationship with mental health. In March 2023 she premiered the piece in front of a sold-out crowd, seed. in augmented formation alongside turntablist Nik-Nak and strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra. That performance, with additional recording at Livingston Studios in November 2023, makes up the four-movement Side A — movements i through iv with two interludes, running just over twenty-one minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSide B is a single track, \"Smoke in the Sun,\" recorded separately at Total Refreshment Centre in April 2021 and played at 45 RPM. The album was pressed at Pallas in Germany with lacquers cut at SST.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"International Anthem","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43418901971003,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/a3893985235_10.jpg?v=1776169912"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/cassie-kinoshi.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}