Jake Long was born in South West London into a household where music was ever-present. Gravitating towards drums, Long’s desire to practice convinced his parents that he was serious about the instrument. Soaking up all the city had to offer, he set about applying his influences to his own band, bringing together some of the most exciting young players as a loose collective called Maisha. That group went on to release on labels including Jazz re:freshed and Brownswood.
For the new album City Swamp Long spent a time with Maisha collaborators Amané Suganami, Tim Doyle, Twm Dylan, Nubya Garcia, Binker Golding, Tamar Osborn, Shirley Tetteh, Artie Zaitz, and Al MacSween recording material that formed the foundations of City Swamp. He reassembled the tracks, using analogue effects & feeding old reel-to-reel to loop signals back on themselves, to create delays and dub the recordings.