{"id":189422,"date":"2025-12-18T11:43:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T10:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=189422"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:12:00","slug":"manchester-producer-werkha-explores-scoliosis-in-his-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=189422","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Producer Werkha Explores Scoliosis in His New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pain bends the body, but music can straighten the soul. The first time Tom Leah felt his body tilt against the world, he learned how to listen differently. Under the Moniker Werkha, the Manchester-based multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and producer has long stitched rhythm from the textures of life. But with Unsung Irregular<\/a>, his new album on First Word Records, he transforms the contours of scoliosis into sound; the ache, the sway, the hush of unspoken battles, and the relief of movement becoming a language of its own. Werkha transforms hidden disability into rhythm. The result is an album as intimate as a scar, weaving discomfort into soundscapes that pulse with resilience, honesty, and celebrate the healing power of movement, imperfect bodies in perfect motion. Let’s look at how Manchester Producer Werkha Explores Scoliosis in His New Album.<\/em> and read his exclusive answers to our unique questions below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scoliosis is an abnormal sideways curvature of the spine that can create visible asymmetry in the shoulders, hips, or ribcage and often leads to back pain or reduced mobility. Because the spine plays a central role in posture, balance, and flexibility, scoliosis can affect how a person moves, altering gait, limiting range of motion, and sometimes making everyday activities more physically demanding<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hidden Conditions, Heard Clearly<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t outwardly use my own vocals on records, so I reach for different sounds and instruments to represent the stories I want to tell.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Werkha<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Werkha does not sing his stories in the usual way. The choice lands with quiet force across the record’s 11 tracks, each one approaching hidden disability not as a confession but as a living environment, rooms of sensation, memory, and release. Scoliosis leaves marks both visible and invisible; the album traces them with unflinching honesty, then turns them into movement. It’s not a diary of chronic pain so much as a practice of reclaiming rhythm<\/strong><\/a>, proof that bodies can sing without words, and that irregularities can become the pulse a listener leans towards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs an album title, Unsung Irregular is an anchor point that brings together a lot of the meaning behind each individual track… It\u2019s a meeting of beauty and a mishap of the form, an irregularity that I hope I can give a voice to.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Werkha<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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