I Came From Love (Live from the Roundhouse)

Dave Okumu with a special live release of his critically acclaimed album I Came From Love (Live from the Roundhouse) accompanied by a choir of extraordinary young singers, led by Alice Grant and ESKA, as part of In The Round series. The live performance was captured by filmmaker Nicolas Premier who shot the album's music videos, and comes later next year. 

I Came From Love is a tapestry of Black experience that explores ancestry, the legacy of slavery, and what it means to exist in an unjust society. The album sees Okumu reflect on his own family history, remembering how out of place he felt growing up in Vienna, but also how disconnected from his culture he felt visiting Kenya. In preparation for the album Okumu took on hours of research, allowing the work of CLR James, Aimé Cesaire, James Baldwin and others to influence the project. It is a body of work that wears its literary influences on its sleeve, presenting the album in chapters; You Survived So I Might Live [tracks 1-4], The Intolerable Suffering Of (The) Other [5-8], Seduced By Babylon (9-11), and Cave Of Origins (12-14).