Nakhane - New Brighton (feat. Anohni)

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Nakhane is a singer and songwriter from Johannesburg, South Africa. His first album, Brave Confusion, won the South African Music Award for best alternative album in 2014. He starred in the award-winning film “The Wound,” which was shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Nakhane’s second album, You Will Not Die, was originally released in 2018, and then released in the US in 2019, as a deluxe version. The deluxe version includes this song,“New Brighton,” featuring guest vocals from Anohni. In this episode, as Nakhane breaks the song down, he talks about his complicated relationship with Christianity, why the song wasn’t on the original version of the album, and what it was like to work with one of his musical heroes.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece
0:06.0	tell the story of how they remained.
0:08.7	My name is Tao Wen.
0:14.7	This episode contains explicit language.
0:20.3	Nakanae is a singer and songwriter from Johannesburg, South Africa.
0:24.3	His first album, Brave Confusion, won the South African Music Award for Best Alternative
0:28.7	Album in 2014.
0:30.8	He started the award-winning film The Wound, which was shortlisted for the Oscar for
0:34.6	Best Foreign Film.
0:36.5	Nakanae's second album, You Will Not Die, was originally released in 2018 and then released
0:41.6	in the US in 2019 as a Deluxe version.
0:44.9	The Deluxe version includes this song, New Brighton, featuring guest vocals from Anoni.
0:50.0	In this episode, as Nakanae breaks down the song, he talks about his complicated relationship
0:54.6	with Christianity, why the song wasn't on the original version of the album and what
0:59.0	it was like to work with one of his musical heroes.
1:16.8	This is Nakanae.
1:17.8	I actually wrote New Brighton on the 31st of December 2013.
1:24.2	It was New Year's Eve and my family had gone to my aunt's house and I decided to not
1:29.3	celebrate New Year's Eve with them because I wanted to write music.
1:33.6	Before then, I had written my first album on an acoustic guitar with just voice recorded
1:38.9	on a cell phone because I didn't have recording equipment.
1:42.6	But for the first time, I had my own laptop because I told it on my first album and a little
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