End of Year:

The Guardian - 10 Best Contemporary Albums of 2022

A Closer Listen - Top 10 Experimental 2022

Our Culture - The 25 Best EPs of 2022

Drummr - Best 10 African Alternative And Neo African Soul Music Albums Of 2022

Stereogum - The 10 Best Experimental Albums Of 2022 (Honourable Mention)

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Bandcamp - Best Albums of Winter 2022

The Guardian - Contemporary Album of the Month, Feb 2022

Our Culture - The 50 Best Album Covers of 2022

Nyokabi Kariũki Illustrates Home on “peace places” — Bandcamp Daily

Meet Nyokabi Kariũki, The Kenyan Composer Boldly Experimenting With The Sounds Of Home — Drummr Africa

Kenya’s Weird Sounds — New Frame (Podcast)

Nyokabi Kariuki and KMRU on Their Philosophies of Field Recording — Talkhouse

"In Africa, musical engagements are often not divided between stage and audience - everyone is a contributor to the sound.” — 15 Questions

Conversation With Nyokabi Kariuki — Tangaza Magazine

‘peace places: kenyan memories’ Review — The Quietus

peace places: kenyan memories Full EP Review — Pitchfork

Nyokabi Kariuki - Peace Places: Kenyan Memories (Review) — Resident Advisor

Nyokabi Kariuki’s “Equator song” Articulates the Pain of Colonial Dispossession — Pitchfork

More: A Closer Listen, ATTN:Magazine

Nyokabi Kariũki + Cello Octet Amsterdam, Matt Evans and Alev Lenz — peace places: kenyan memories live at TivoliVredenbrug for the Gaudeamus Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands (September 2022)

Check out this interview with Gaudeamus on the lead-up to the performance.

“the season of Big rain (Mbura ya Njahĩ), performed by Third Coast Percussion at Constellation Chicago in Chicago, IL (June 2022)

“Raw Sugar”, commissioned & premiered by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Men’s Ensemble at King’s Theatre, NY (May 2022)

“The Colour of Home” performed by International Contemporary Ensemble (Nathan Davis) at Roulette Intermedium, for the 2022 MATA Festival, curated by Darius Jones (May 2022)

“laika, bluu” (for piano duo) premiered by Chromic Duo in-person premiere at Baryshnikov Arts Center

“One, Your Name” (for double bass and electronics) performed by Robert Black (Bang on A Can All-Stars) on First Fridays with Robert Black (virtual)

Finalist: 2021 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition ‘Audio Unbound’ Category Finalist for ‘6:34 — A Quarantine Sound Journal’ (December 2021)

The category “awards audio works that experiment with format, function, genre, and go beyond the podcast feed or broadcast airwaves. This category awards creativity and innovation anchored in audio, but that builds a narrative across mediums and platforms.”

Winner: 2021 Hearsay ‘Art’ Award for “A Walk Through My Cũcũ’s Farm” (May 2021)

“The ‘Art’ Award is given to “sound art that is on the edge of our senses and understanding – audio that transports, transforms, evokes, immerses, transports.”

Shortlist: 2021 Hearsay Prize for ‘A Walk Through My Cũcũ’s Farm’ (February 2021)

Winner: Tetractys ‘NET WORK’ Collaboration Project (January 2021)

Winner: SA Recordings - ‘Recompose’ Competition (November 2020)

Honourable Mention: Chromic Duo CFS Commissioning Project (October 2020)

Winner: Brooklyn Youth Chorus Men’s Ensemble Composer Competition (December 2019)

Nyokabi talks to ATTN:Magazine’s ‘Crucial Listening’ Podcast about 3 important records, and ‘Galu’

Nyokabi Kariũki on preserving the feeling of being free in her latest single Galu — Composer Magazine

Kenyan Composer Nyokabi Kariuki On Winning SA Recordings' 'Recompose' Competition — Tangaza Magazine

Nyokabi Kariũki releases single following her triumph alongside Alev Lenz — Pan African Music Magazine (English)

Video Premiere: “Fishermen (Sell Your Dreams)” with Alev Lenz — Composer Magazine

Video Premiere: (no) i Don't Want to Leave You Whole / 'cause that may Leave Me Empty — I Care If You Listen