Nakamarra
Context
Track from Tawk Tomahawk, Hiatus Kaiyote's first album, released independently in April 2012 and then licensed by Flying Buddha, Salaam Remi's label, which added a version featuring Q-Tip. The track earned the group a Grammy Awards nomination (Best R&B Performance), a first for an Australian group in an R&B category.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Renaissances (Los Angeles, London). Among the origins and influences of Renaissances: Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz, Spiritual jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, British jazz, Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz, ECM and European jazz, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide).