Melt Yourself Down

Melt Yourself Down

Melt Yourself Down is a London-based group active since 2012. Their music combines afrobeat with elements of North African musical styles, punk, jazz and funk, and they are described as a collaborative project with a strong Afrocentric, jazz-tinged, tribal-pop approach and avant-garde tendencies.

Line-up and associations

The group includes Pete Wareham, Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Skinner, Ruth Goller, Kushal Gaya, Satin Singh, Adam Betts, George Crowley, Leafcutter John and Dave Smith. Wareham is also linked with Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bear, Hutchings with Sons of Kemet, Shabaka and the Ancestors, The Comet is Coming and the Heliocentrics, Skinner with Hello Skinny, Sons of Kemet and Mulatu Astatke, Goller with Acoustic Ladyland, Gaya with Zun Zun Egui, and Singh with Transglobal Underground.

Recordings

The group’s self-titled debut album presents a compact version of their live-oriented Afrocentric sound, bringing together jazz, funk and broader global influences. Their second studio album, Last Evenings On Earth, follows in 2016.