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, who both contribute to the album ''Bread & Butterflies'' which was released 17 July 2020. The group has previously released two other studio albums: ''nommo (2002)'' and ''Todo Cambia (2007)''. For the first album ''nommo'', Randall brought together Icelandic singer

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, English singer

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, American hip hop recording artist Anthony Demore, drummer

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, and the voices of Charlie Chaplin and

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. The album raised questions about the world and was in the words of ''

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'', "a wonderful album that is both stridently polemical and determinedly celebratory". Randall then put together the Slovo live band with singer Andrea Britton, bass player Lucy Shaw, percussionist Sudha Kheterpal, and guitarist and keyboard player Andrew Phillips ( Grasscut). The band toured extensively in Europe in 2003 and 2004 playing at many of the major European festivals and supporting

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and

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in the UK. In 2005, Randall returned to live guitar duties with Faithless, but also began work on Slovo's second album ''Todo Cambia''. The album featured vocalists Andrea Britton and hip hop MC Bobby Whiskers as well as the voices of Indian activist

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and US political prisoner and writer George Jackson. It was co-produced by Andy Marlow who also joined the band as bass player for a series of performances to coincide with the album’s release in 2007. During the next decade Randall toured again with Faithless as well as Sinéad O'Connor and

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. He also composed music for several documentary films and authored the book ''Sound System: The Political Power of Music'' (Pluto Press 2017) before returning to the Slovo project. In 2020, he stated "Bread & Butterflies is Slovo's third studio album and I think it's our best yet. This feels like such a strange and pivotal time to be alive. We've tried to explore the issues affecting us all, and to capture some of the feelings they invoke. But above all this is an optimistic album, born of the belief that a better world is possible".

Members

Current

* Dave Randall *Barbarella (Barbara Pugliese) *Mike Ladd *Lya Reis

* Andrea Britton *Bobby Whiskers *Andy Marlow *Nikolaj Bjerre *Lucy Shaw *Andrew Phillips *

*Anthony Demore *Jenny Adejayan

Discography

*''nommo'' (2002) *''Todo Cambia'' (2007) *''Bread & Butterflies'' (2020)

References

External links

Official Site
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