Re:Context! with Andre Marmot

Music and words in conversation

Behind music is often a world of ideas, influences and stories. The brand-new series Re:Context! features leading writers with a new non-fiction work on jazz, impro or global and the wider culture around it.

With Lies Steppe, they discuss how music connects, shapes or moves us. Double bassist Lara Rosseel provides the musical accompaniment.

This edition's guest: André Marmot

André Marmot is a key figure at London-based Earth Agency, specialising in the intersection of African, jazz and global electronic music. As a booker, programmer, musician and label owner, he is at the heart of the UK's thriving jazz scene.

On his debut album 'Unapologetic Expression' (2024), he delves deep into the roots as well as the current vibrant and radical state of British jazz. He drew on no less than 86 interviews with figureheads ranging from Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd to Gilles Peterson, Courtney Pine and Cleveland Watkiss. How did jazz become so relevant and urgent again? And what does it say about the times we live in?

With 'Unapologetic Expression' he weaves a powerful tale of identity, resistance and musical renewal in a post-colonial Britain. A fiery ode to the unifying power of music.

Ha Concerts and Paard van Troje in collaboration with festival RAUW Rotterdam