Pino Palladino Featured on Michael Kiwanuka’s “Small Changes”
British singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has returned with his fourth album, Small Changes. The soulful effort sees him teaming up again with producers Danger Mouse and Inflo and some special guests.
Kiwanuka performs the majority of the music on the album. Still, he expanded his palette with a “wish-list ensemble,” including Jimmy Jam of Jam and Lewis and bass guru Pino Palladino. In an interview with The Current, Kiwanuka said he first discovered his bass playing on D’Angelo’s groundbreaking album Voodoo.
“And that type of bass playing was, like, sort of new; you know, inspired by old, ’70s bass players, but, like, he just put a spin on it. No one had really heard anything like that,” he said. “So I wanted to ask about all of that. But he really was like the Pino I imagined, you know? He’s on one track in the end, and that’s probably, like, the best bass playing ever, or definitely on the album. Yeah, he’s phenomenal.”
Palladino is featured on “Rebel Soul,” though the whole record has cool bass grooves.
Small Changes is out now on CD, vinyl and as a digital download (Apple Music and Amazon Music).
Small Changes Track List:
- Floating Parade
- Small Changes
- One And Only
- Rebel Soul
- Lowdown (part i)
- Lowdown (part ii)
- Follow Your Dreams
- Live For Your Love
- Stay By My Side
- The Rest Of Me
- Four Long Years
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