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Gareth Donkin - Welcome Home (Evergreen Vinyl)

Drink Sum Wtr

  • £23.76

Format: LP, Evergreen Vinyl
Catalogue No.: DSW5LPC1
Barcode: 0617308054729
Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B

Written and recorded in a series of bedroom studiosin England and France, London-based Gareth Donkin’s extraordinary debut, Welcome Home, showcases the 23-year-old’s stunning mix of instrumental virtuosity and emotional intuition, blending highly sophisticated melodic and harmonic craftsmanship with deeply moving lyrical explorations of longing, desire, and determination. The songs here draw on soul, funk, pop, yacht rock,hip-hop, jazz, and even bossa nova, hinting at times to everything from Michael Jackson and Bill Evans to George Benson and Jamiroquai, and Donkin’s performances are nothing short of mesmerizing, layering up instrument after instrument in the best one-man-band tradition of Prince or Stevie Wonder. The result is a moving work that’s equal parts brain and brawn, a masterful coming-of-age self-portrait from a young artist discovering himself—and his sound—one song at a time. Born with perfect pitch, Donkin was already fanatically obsessed with both jazz piano and drums before he turned twelve. In high school, he began DJing and teaching himself to record and sample, and by the time he headed to the Leeds College of Music to pursue a degree in production, he was already writing and recording his own material at home. His first single, “Catharsis,” would go on to rack up more than a million streams on Spotify, and a series of subsequent tracks would find similarly organic success and help land him a deal with the burgeoning drink sum wtr label.

TRACKLISTING
SIDE A
A1: Till The End of Time (Night Sky)
A2: Something Different
A3: Whenever
A4: Nothing We Can't Get Through
A5: By Your Side

SIDE B
B1: Falling For You
B2: Don't Turn The Music Down
B3: Tell Me Something
B4: Looking for Me
B5: De La Soul

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