Jazz
Brownswood Recordings · 11 November 2026
Wonky Logic is the alias of Dwayne Kilvington, a self-taught producer and multi-instrumentalist who grew up on a Leeds council estate, and “Mek Do & Mend” is the album Brownswood Recordings released on 11 November, digitally and on vinyl. According to the label, over two decades he’s played and recorded with Nala Sinephro, Yussef Dayes, Nightmares On Wax, Shabaka Hutchings and Emma-Jean Thackray. Gilles Peterson, the label says, committed to putting it out before he’d heard a note of it.
It’s fourteen tracks and just under an hour of music, recorded live in a single day in Studio One at RAK, mixed by Rick David through an analogue Cadac console and mastered by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis. The contributors are Luke Wynter, Steam Down drummer Benji Appiah, Vanessa Rani, Jonathan Enser, Joe Bristow, Brother Portrait and Nubiya Imani; Brother Portrait is the voice on “A Thousand Hands”, while Vanessa Rani and Nubiya Imani are the featured guests on “Underneath The Same Sky” and “Man”.
The material spans more than fifteen years: opener “Strange Attractor” was written when he was seventeen. There are voice notes from family, teachers and friends, and the title comes from a conversation with his mother. “The album exists somewhere between being a biography and an autobiography,” Kilvington says in the notes: the biography is in other people’s voices, the autobiography in the music.
“Strange Attractor” and “A Thousand Hands” came out ahead of the album, on 3 September and 8 October respectively. Before this, Wonky Logic had released the “Mindmarket” EP (Boom Better Records, 2012), “0113” (2020), made at home during lockdown, and the “Transdimensional Fuunk (Transposed For Human Consumption)” EP (Super-Sonic Jazz, 2021).
Text by Aina Torrents