{"product_id":"lso5122d-ocean-floor","title":"Ocean Floor","description":"\u003ch4\u003e2023 NativeDSD Album of the Year Nominee - Vocals\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\n\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOcean Floor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e showcases \u003cstrong\u003eAyanna Witter-Johnson\u003c\/strong\u003e’s special partnership with the \u003cstrong\u003eLSO Percussion Ensemble \u003c\/strong\u003eand pianist and composer \u003cstrong\u003eGwilym Simcock\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Her choice of rhythms and harmony and use of percussion all have symbolic meaning in relation to the songs’ deep inspiration. Combining alternative R\u0026amp;B with Classical, and with influences from Soul, Hip Hop and Reggae, Ayanna Witter-Johnson is the definition of an eclectic soul.\r\n\r\nLSO Live says \u003cem\u003e\"Today’s the day! We’re thrilled to present the newest release from LSO Live, ‘Ocean Floor’. This collaborative album from singer, songwriter, pianist and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson and the LSO Percussion Ensemble was recorded live at LSO St Luke's as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, and explores stories relating to Ayanna’s ancestral heritage, culture and identity.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\nAyanna Witter-Johnson tells us \u003cem\u003e“I want [the audience] to feel the wonder and the celebration of music from across the African diaspora. It’s so rich, it’s so influential, and it’s so lovely to hear such nuanced rhythms all in one place.”\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\nThrough her work with the LSO, she forged a friendship with LSO Principal Percussionist, \u003cstrong\u003eNeil Percy\u003c\/strong\u003e, which became the starting point for the recording. Witter-Johnson says \u003cem\u003e\"His enthusiasm for my music moves me to tears and was the catalyst behind our first collaboration and subsequent commission, Forever. The organic development of this project is something I will treasure forever, because above all, I have felt the fullest support in expressing myself exactly as I am, and that goes beyond words.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\r\n\r\nIn 1781, the Zong – a British slave ship – left Ghana with twice the number it was designed to carry, bound for Jamaica. The ship’s owners claimed that drinking water was running low, and ordered the crew to throw more than 130 living enslaved people overboard.\r\n\r\nOver 200 years later, Jamaica has become a place of significance for Ayanna Witter-Johnson. As a young child, she often spent her six-week summer holiday visiting extended family there, taking trips to a favorite beach on the south coast. It was here that she witnessed a terrible fatal accident at one end of the beach, yet at the other end, a baptism and celebration was taking place. 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