Ahead of Nwando’s upcoming performance alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra, and the release of new album ‘All the Calm of a Distant Sea’, the to do list chatted with the genre-defying musician about 2025, inspirations, Afrofuturism, and Unmissable Things To Do in London…
“ My work deals with ritual. Like most of my pieces (sonic, visual or physical) I begin with the ritual that I want to create – and it is often a ritual that I feel I need within my life at the moment. Lessons I need to learn. Initiations I need to go through. I create a mythopoetic journey – feeling out what this should be and then I convert it into a poetic text.”