''Nanna'' is the eighth studio album recorded by

Xavier Rudd Xavier Rudd (born 29 May 1978) is an Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and multi-instrumentalist. Several of Rudd's songs incorporate socially conscious themes, such as spirituality, humanity, environmentalism and the rights of Indigen ...

and the United Nations, a band featuring a diverse group of musicians from Australia, South Africa, Samoa, Germany, Ireland and Papua New Guinea. The album was recorded and self-produced in Australia and mixed by

Errol Brown Lester Errol Brown MBE (12 November 1943 – 6 May 2015) was a British-Jamaican singer and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the soul and funk band Hot Chocolate. In 2004, Brown received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contributi ...

in Jamaica.

Reception

In his review for

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, Thom Jurek calls Rudd's work on ''Nanna'' "far more collaborative than anything he's done before." On the first single, "Come People", "Rudd's vocals are urgent, layered just above backing vocalists Georgia Carowa and Alicia Mellor, whose chants underscore his lines", but it's the United Nations collective who are the voice of the album. Jurek believes "Rudd reveals himself as a gifted bandleader and arranger" allowing the United Nations to shine "in this ambitious mix." Dan Lander of ''

Rolling Stone Australia ''Rolling Stone'' Australia is the Australian edition of the United States' ''Rolling Stone'' magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture, published monthly. The Australian version of ''Rolling Stone'' was initially published in 197 ...

'' wrote, "''Nanna'' is a beautiful celebration of global sound, the only flaw being that Rudd's own unique voice gets a little lost in all that egalitarianism."

Track listing

Personnel

* Bobby Alu – Drums, percussion * Georgia Carowa – Backing vocals * Stuart Currie – Trombone * Eddie Elias – Fender Rhodes, Hammond organ, piano * Peter Hunt – Trumpet * Simon Keet – Synthesizer * Chris Lane – Bansuri, tenor sax * Alicia Mellor – Backing vocals * Tio Moloantoa – Bass * Yeshe Reiners – Ngoni, percussion *

– Guitar, vocals, Weissenborn, Yidaki

Charts

References

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