We Aren't Just

We Aren't Just is the debut album from Matters Unknown – Jonny Enser from Nubiyan Twist's solo project. Over 14 tracks, it travels through Afro-jazz, celestial blues, soulful funk, electronica, hip hop referencing influences such as Mulatu Astatke, Pat Thomas and Tony Allen all of whom he has worked with via Nubiyan Twist.

This album features some of the UK's finest young players including members of Nerija, Noya Rao, Golden Mean and COLECTIVA. Every track on the album is inspired by a facet of Jonny's personal development; drawing from his relationship to the city, whether in the delta regions of the Mississippi river or along London's arterial Thames.

The album is a material testament to the flexibility inherent to Matters Unknown; it can be orchestrated to accommodate a 15-strong orchestra, replete with a string section to move you to the dance-floor as Jazz originally intended, or stripped down to the bare bones of a trumpet and tuba-led quartet whose intentions remain all the same; to pierce into the audience's soul.

Jonny is honest, often laying bare his personal plights with his physical disability and mental health, and the steep – yet rewarding – uphill climb as a musician and Jazz instrumentalist. We Aren't Just is a multi-faceted study of the self, one's relationship with the external world; the material, and the living within the inert.