LONDON-BASED South African singer Nakhane releases their highly anticipate album Bastard Jargon on Friday, 31 March.
This is the singer’s second album since moving to London, UK.
Nakhane Mahlakahlaka (35) said their 2018 album, You Will Not Die, was about growing up gay in a Christian family. Now Bastard Jargon is about living in their truth.
“I wrote this over 18 months in Lisbon, Ghent, Oxfordshire, London and Hastings. It’s an existential sex album. Almost every song on it has some kind of wink towards sex. It’s not necessarily seductive, come to me, bedroom eyes kind of sex, it’s much more curious, psychological sex.
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“When I wrote You Will Not Die it was at the end of my relationship with Christianity. I then wrote Bastard Jargon I had moved to London and just wanted to feel good about myself,” they said.
Nakhane worked on the album with well-known American record producer Nile Rodgers.
“We first met at the BBC while doing an interview on Later with Jools Holland. I was in the make-up room. I got up to say hello, slipped and fell into his arms. I wanted someone to produce my album and he said, ‘Sure, I’d love to’,” said Nakhane.
About the title Bastard Jargon, Nakhane said they picked it up while studying at Wits University.
“Before a language is standardised, it’s called a bastard jargon because it’s neither here nor there, it belongs to nobody.
“When I made this album, I felt that it represented this newness and sense of discovery," Nakhane said.
Nakhane has also recently come out as non-binary, meaning that they don’t identify as male or female, but rather as them or them.
Bastard Jargon is available on all digital streaming platforms.
