{"id":267539,"date":"2025-11-06T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267539\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:06:09","slug":"kai-reesu-win-scottish-album-of-the-year-award-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267539\/","title":{"rendered":"Kai Reesu win Scottish Album of the Year award 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winner was chosen by a panel of judges from across the creative industries, chaired by music journalist Arusa Qureshi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Robert Kilpatrick, creative director of the Scottish Music Industry Association, said Kai Reesu&#8217;s album was a &#8220;truly well-deserved&#8221; winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Massive congratulations to Kai Reesu for a bold, genre-blending record that moves effortlessly between jazz, hip-hop, grime and psychedelia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s prophetic, propulsive and defiantly inventive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ceremony included live performances from 2024 winner Redolent and a set from KT Tunstall to close the night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tunstall, who grew up in St Andrews, performed three songs from 2005 album Eye to the Telescope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;I live in America and I travel all over the world and people love Scottish musicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I&#8217;m just very proud to be in that lineage of amazing Scottish artists that have contributed an awful lot to the world, even though we&#8217;re such a wee country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previous winners of the award include Young Fathers in 2023, Fergus McCreadie in 2022 and Mogwai in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winner was chosen by a panel of judges from across the creative industries, chaired by music journalist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-267539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}