Xavier Rudd & The United Nations - Nanna (Nettwerk)

'Nanna' is Xavier's eighth' long player and was mixed by Errol Brown at the legendary Tuff Gong Studios in Jamaica. Even though Rudd already sporadically experimented with reggae in the past (the cover of Bob Marley's 'No Woman, No Cry' on 'Solace'), 'Nanna' is his first full-fledged reggae album. Rudd's songs, in which he often addresses topics like living in harmony with nature or showing respect for indigenous peoples, have a tendency to lean somewhat towards new age ("One two three four five six seven, eight, positively close the by, spread your light radiate, I'm moving slowly, positive diligent, what other people think of you is none of your business ..." from 'Struggle'), but never to a level we would describe as corny. Those wondering which language singer Georgia Corawa used in title track 'Nanna', we can inform that's Jandai, an Australian native dialect officially listed as a dead language. Nice release positioning Xavier Rudd & The United Nations somewhere between Groundation and Soldiers Of Jah Army.
 
Xavier Rudd & The United Nations will be live on stage at Couleur Café on July 5th!