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Rye Lane (Original Score)

    Kwesi Sey, known as kwes. is a producer, composer and artist who has worked with the likes of Solange, Loyle Carner, Sampha, Tirzah, Damon Albarn, Kelela, Nubya Garcia, Hudson Mohawke, NAO, Selah Sue, Lil Silva and more. Following from his score for short documentary ‘Little Miss Sumo’ (Netflix) Kwes scored his first feature film Rye Lane (d. Raine Allen Miller) produced by BBC, BFI and distributed by Fox Searchlight. The film premiered at Sundance 2023 to glowing reviews.

    TRACK LISTING

    A1. Intro / Toilet
    A2. Mouths
    A3. Nathan Armstrong / Dom Buys Photo
    A4. Traffic Lights (Part 1 & 2)
    A5. Yas & Dom / Seesaw
    A6. Dom's Flashback / Spilt Popcorn
    A7. Sweet Thing
    A8. Chemistry / Happy Dom
    A9. Rollerblades (Rye Lane Version)
    A10. Brockwell Park (Walled Garden)
    A11. I Haven't Decided Yet / Skyline From Brockwell
    A12. Yas' Flashback / Basic / Spilt Hummus
    A13. Mischief (Part 1 & 2)
    B1. BBQ Raid / What Have You Done? / Panic
    B2. Smooch / Moped
    B3. Jules Raid
    B4. Argue
    B5. Reminiscing
    B6. Fallout
    B7. LGOYH (Let Go Of Your Hurt) Feat. Sampha & Tirzah
    B8. Moving Forward (Original Percussion Mix)
    B9. Wave At Boats
    B10. Open Up (Credits Version) Feat. Sampha & Tirzah

    Five years after the release of Kwes' debut LP, he’s back with "Songs For Midi". Following collaborations with Bobby Womack, NAO, Solange, and Loyle Carner (not to mention mxing label mate Kelela’s debut album "Take Me Apart") the EP sees the producer return to making music solely for himself - free from the shackles of collaboration and producing free-form compositions full of experimentation but more importantly - FUN. Yes, you can almost hear the artist thoroughly enjoying himself through the course of the album, which pairs natural strings against synthesized sawtooths, digtal delays against meandering pianos and the odd flurry of randomized percussion. "Songs for Midi", even though mature in its sound, maintains that consequential childlike element upon which Kwes has built his repertoire. An ode to his two year old niece Midi; it’s an opus about childhood discoveries and the excitement a child feels in the ordinary and mundanity of everyday life, an uplifting comment on the effervescence of youth. Midi also designed the cover with a little help from Uncle Kwes. Perhaps the youngest ever designer in Warp’s near three decade history! Each track on the EP builds upon sounds including the gentle tick tock on "Blox/Connor" to the flourishing extensive synthlines and crescendos on "Midori" which call to mind the fragility of Arthur Russell’s "World of Echo".

    TRACK LISTING

    A1. Midori
    A2. Trike
    A3. Ungry/Milk
    B1. 99flake
    B2. Hometime
    B3. Blox/Connor

    Kwes

    Rollerblades

      ‘Rollerblades’ is the warming new slice of ‘free pop’ from Kwes, the 6Music playlisted, Loud + Quiet magazine cover star, and producer / remixer / band member / collaborator for the likes of Bobby Womack, Damon Albarn, The xx, Invisible, Gorillaz, Metronomy, Hot Chip, Dels, Ghostpoet and Lianne La Havas, amongst many others.

      The track is also the first step towards the release of Kwes’ debut album, planned for summer 2013.

      2012 has seen Kwes’ transition from muso’s favourite to aweinspiring musician in his own right. The ‘Meantime’ EP, released earlier this year, saw him step out from behind the mixing desk and into the spotlight. ‘Bashful’, taken from the EP, gained a 6Music B-List and he showcased his live show across Europe, the US and the UK. More recently, Kwes has toured with Bobby Womack around the US including a slot on Jimmy Fallon.

      Kwes calls his music ‘free pop’, explaining: “I feel my music fits around many heads of many sizes and mental dispositions”. ‘Rollerblades’ fits this theme and is a song about lost young love. It’s beautiful, catchy and is another insight into the musical mind of Kwes. B-side ‘Rosab’ is a messed up, oneiric instrumental ode to his bike.



      Wonder producer turned artist Kwes releases a concise mission statement of reconstructed, homemade and quintessentially English ‘Free Pop’.

      24 year old Kwes has always been ahead of his game when it comes to music. He’s produced material for Speech Debelle and DELS, collaborated with Micachu, Ghostpoet, The Invisible and more on the ‘Kwesachu’ mixtape series, worked with The xx on early demos, and Damon Albarn on the DRC Music project.

      ‘Bashful’, the lead track from this release, is a shuffle of disco, meticulously melodic and tinged with flashes of soul, R&B, lo-fi indie and house. 'Klee' is a euphoric, layered rush of wonkoid keyboard work. 'Honey' is the bare bones of a singer-songwriter ditty with a lo-res demo sound quality and hooks that will be stuck in your head for days... Lastly 'Lgoyh' combines a typewriter rhythm section, lush synthwave sparkle and another heartfelt vocal.

      Kwes simply describes all this as ‘Free Pop'... “A philosophy of creating popular music that knows no boundaries, shuns no eccentricity and values inventiveness over any kind of rules that have gone before”.


      STAFF COMMENTS

      Philippa says: Kwes calls his music ‘free pop', I'd call it 'quirky, lo-fi pop'. Soul, R&B, lo-fi indie, synthwave and house are all component parts to his joyous sound.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Klee
      2. Bashful
      3. Honey
      4. Lgoyh


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