Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, releases Temporary. The record features an incredible roll call of collaborators including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished By Time. Created over four years from 2020 to 2024, Temporary was recorded in...
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After years of garnering acclaim across the underground and mainstream for a singular, boundary-pushing stream of consciousness sound, London based rapper, producer and poet John Glacier’s debut album, Like A Ribbon, will finally be released on February 14th 2025. A dreamlike portrayal of the journey from a simple existence growing up in Hackney, to projecting stories to the world while aiming to maintain a semblance of normalcy in what is...
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Having been friends and labelmates since their teens, Romy and Sampha make their long-awaited first appearance on record together with the collaborative new single ‘I’m on your team’. The pair wrote the song during sessions for other artists before finally recording it together in London following the release of their acclaimed 2023 albums LAHAI and Mid Air, alongside co-producer and composer Thomas Bartlett. It’s a startlingly beautiful song that documents...
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This October marks the one-year anniversary of Sampha’s globally lauded, Ivor Novello and AIM-nominated 2023 album LAHAI. To celebrate, Sampha announces a deluxe version of the album, with three new singles out now on streaming services: ‘Dancing Circles 2.0,’ ‘Re Entry’ and ‘Sensory Nectar’ plus the previously released single ‘Satellite Business 2.0’ featuring Little Simz. ‘Dancing Circles 2.0’ is a reimagination of the fan-favourite track, which Sampha performed during his...
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Sampha and Little Simz have come together on new single ‘Satellite Business 2.0’ – a brand new, fully-realised version of the ‘Satellite Business’ interlude from Sampha’s latest album LAHAI. Little Simz first heard the song live during Sampha’s run of ‘Satellite Business’ residency shows in 2023 at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, she witnessed the song evolving and expanding while Sampha and his band experimented in the round during a series of intimate, rapturously-received events. She later joined Sampha on stage in...
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Sampha announces his sophomore album LAHAI, out October 20th. Taken from his paternal grandfather’s name, which is also Sampha’s middle name, LAHAI revels in the awe and magic of our existence, synthesising the exquisite chaos that one experiences confronting the cycle of life and the beyondness. With contributions from some of Sampha’s closest friends, peers and collaborators including Yaeji, LéaSen, Sheila Maurice Grey (Kokoroko), Ibeyi, Morgan Simpson (Black Midi), Yussef Dayes, Laura Groves and Kwake Bass, LAHAI, in contrast to Process, is a communal affair...
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London singer, songwriter and producer Sampha returns with a brand new single, ‘Spirit 2.0’. Released today via Young / Remote Control, ‘Spirit 2.0’ is Sampha’s first solo music in over six years, following the global success of his acclaimed 2017 debut album Process. Those intervening years have been anything but fallow, with Sampha contributing his inimitable voice to some of music’s biggest releases including, most recently, Kendrick Lamar and Stormzy. Simultaneously, he’s been firmly focused on the creation of his highly anticipated second album alongside a close...
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Five years ago Sampha released his debut album Process via Young / Remote Control Records. The seminal album was met with widespread critical-acclaim and went on to be named the 2017 Mercury-Prize winner. Celebrating the project’s five-year anniversary, Sampha releases a special 12-track bonus edition of Process which includes two newly available songs ‘Inbetween and Overseas’ and ‘Answer’. Process, which features singles ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’, ‘Timmy’s Prayer’ and ‘Blood On Me’, is an emotionally raw and achingly...
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Everything Is Recorded have released ‘Show Love feat. Syd & Sampha’. The new single comes with an accompanied lyric video, watch below! Back in August Richard Russell stopped by Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show in which he discussed his respect for Syd and working with her for Everything Is Recorded. Bridging the gap between London and Los Angeles, ‘Show Love’ begins with Russell’s percussive instrumentation, interlaced with an introductory verse from Sampha,...
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Everything Is Recorded have released a new single, ‘Mountains Of Gold’. It sees the record producer and XL Recordings head collaborating with Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki and Kamasi Washington and is accompanied by a Nick Walker-directed video. Watch it below! “‘Mountains of Gold’ is sound system inspired, you can hear a lot of strong and different personalities and voices in the one song, but the feeling is consistent. Everyone has plenty of...
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Everything Is Recorded is the new collaborative artist project from record producer and XL Recordings head Richard Russell. With Russell at the helm, his west London studio ‘The Copper House’ has become a creative second home for a revolving cast of vocalists and musicians who pass through to write, record and share ideas, mixing traditional recording sessions with extended, uninhibited live jams. Out now, the Close But Not Quite EP...
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Process is a film about London musician Sampha by Kahlil Joseph (Pulse Films). Now available exclusively on Apple Music. The 37 minute film is a rich, widescreen visual contextualisation of Sampha’s acclaimed 2017 debut album of the same name. Process was filmed in January 2017 between Freetown, Sierra Leone and Morden, south London. Both places have deep personal significance for Sampha, Freetown being the hometown of Sampha’s parent’s (and the city where...
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Over the weekend Sampha performed new single ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Emotionally raw and achingly beautiful, the track is a tribute to the piano that sat in Sampha’s south London family home from the age of three – a piano on which he wrote much of his highly anticipated forthcoming debut album Process, out Friday 3rd February via Young / Remote Control...
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Sampha has released a brand new single ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’. At once both emotionally raw and achingly beautiful, the track is a tribute to the piano that sat in Sampha’s south London family home from the age of three – a piano on which he wrote much of his highly anticipated forthcoming debut album Process, out Friday 3rd February via Young / Remote Control Records. Produced by...
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Sampha announces details of his highly-anticipated debut album. Titled Process, the ten track album will be released on Friday 3rd February 2017 via Young / Remote Control Records, featuring the singles ‘Timmy’s Prayer’ and ‘Blood On Me’. Since the release of his debut Sundanza EP in 2010 and 2013’s Dual EP, Sampha has quietly but assuredly become one of the UK’s most enigmatic and respected artists. Still just twenty seven years old,...
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Watch Sampha’s first ever solo video for his new single ‘Blood On Me’ below. As one of the UK’s most enigmatic young artists, Sampha has lent his talents to a whole range of standout releases, from homegrown UK contemporaries such as SBTRKT, FKA twigs, Lil Silva andJessie Ware to world-renowned superstars like Drake, Beyoncé, Kanye West and, most recently, on Frank Ocean’s Endless release. Now it’s time for Sampha to tell his own story. ...
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