Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me [CD]

DAPTONE RECORDS

£11.50

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: DAP-076CD
Barcode: 823134007628
Release Date: 08 Sep 2023
Genre: Soul/R&B

• Pre album announce single 'If You Don't Want My Love' playlisted at both BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 6 in May / June 23
• Press coverage by NPR, MTV.com, Clash, Wonderland and many others
• Worldwide PR/Radio campaigns in US, UK and EU
• Headlining US/EU/UK Tour announced for Fall 2023
• Recent tour support for Thee Sacred Souls and Olivia Dean (US & EU/UK)

Plans for the album were struck just months before the COVID 19 pandemic shut the world down. Notwithstanding, Jalen eventually made it to Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn, NY where he began writing and recording with the help of producer/arrangers Mike Buckley and Vincent Chiarito (both members of Charles Bradley's Extraordinaires) and a crack team of a-list musicians from the Daptone family. The team skillfully blends heavy arrangements and introspective lyrics with motown sophistication, leaving the listener in a blissful wash of wonderment.

Jalen has been writing songs since he was 14, and his compositions are also very much of these times. He explains, “I love music from the 20th century— I listen to it all the time, but Iʼm in this world and the 21st century. ...to a stranger, Iʼd describe my music as modern soul and R&B, while trying to fit in the Beach Boys and the Beatles somewhere in between.” Come Around and Love Me reveals how he creates a classic approach that is rooted in the sounds of revered pioneers, without falling into imitation–leaving no doubt that Jalen will continue to shine within the superlative, timeless musical tradition that is Daptoneʼs hallmark.

LIVE DATES: 8/7 - North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam , Netherlands 20/7 - Nice Jazz Festival, Nice, France
12/8 - FEST Festival, Chorzow, Poland 13/8 - Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, Winterthur, Switzerland 01/11 King Tut's, Glasgow, UK 02/11 Jimmys, Liverpool, UK 04/11 Institute 3, Birmingham, UK 6/11 Exchange, Bristol, UK
7/11 Jazz Cafe, London, UK 8/11 Bird, Rotterdam, UK 9/11 Cafe de la Dance, Paris, France

Tracklisting 1. Come Around And Love Me 2. If You Don’t Want My Love 3. Lost 4. That’s All I Wanted From You 5. Please Show Me 6. Just Like You Used To 7. What A Difference She Made 8. Give Me Another Day 9. So Glad I Found You 10.It Takes A Fool
11. Rapture