Dave Okumu – I Came From Love

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Track Listing / Two Things  7 Generations  Blood Ah Go Run  Streets  My Negritude  The Cost  Prison  Black Firework  Scenes  Amnesia  Get Out  The Struggle  Eyes On Me  Abaka  A Paradise  Okumu released his first solo record Knopperz in 2021; an instrumental concept albumbased on pianist Duval Timothy’s 2017 album Sen AmIt was friend and mentor Lexxx whosparked the soul searching that kicked off his next record after he told Okumu that he wastrying to explain who Okumu was but struggled to summarise his vast catalogue. “There are all these ways into these aspects of who I am and I felt like he was saying, itwould be so cool if you could find out how to say who you are in a comprehensive way”.Okumu took on that challenge and in response devised his sophomore release I Came FromLove, a tapestry of Black experience that explores ancestry, the legacy of slavery, what itmeans to exist in an unjust society, and Okumu’s own family history.