A whole young generation of musicians brought up on the new, instrumental and abstract
hip-hop has carried jazz into a new era. The four London-based musicians who make up
Uniri have gone one step further by abandoning the idea of a jazz band and "bedroom
production" in favour of collective composing, creating a new look at the new-beat aesthetics,
framing it as a road novel set in an unspecified time and space.

Uniri translates as ‘one unified dream’ and is the key driving motto of the project conceived by
Chiminyo (Cykada, Maisha), the band's founder and head honcho. The project materialised
in his private studio, where he invited fellow jazz musicians Amane Tsuganami (Jorja Smith,
Maisha), Al Macsween (Nubya Garcia, Gary Bartz, Kefaya) and Luke Wynter (Nubyan Twist,
Golden Mean) to spontaneously compose together.