Sampha has returned with a new single called Spirit 2.0.
Guided by his distinctive soulful voice over skittering percussion and a fusion of dreamy synths and strings, the track marks the London artist's first solo release since his 2017 debut album, 'Process'.
Crafted with musical contributions from Yussef Dayes, El Guincho and Owen Pallett, it also features backing vocals from Yaeji and Lisa-Kaindé Diaz of Ibeyi. Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Sampha said:
"This is definitely a part of a project of the record, an album. I'm super excited to share it at some point. I wrote this one over a period of time and through COVID and going through quite a few things like a lot of people, and it's a track I felt like I needed to write for myself really at the time I wrote it and the lyrics came over a period of time.
"Initially it was just the chords and the melody and the mood lines and stuff... I just wrote the chords and the mood lines, and literally it was just in the park looking up and just the feeling just felt like a meditation and just something felt really good really of the moment and I definitely felt like I had something, and it was just nice, just for me it was quite a personal thing.
"Some of it is just the natural influences that came out. It was the syncopation of West African music, because it was like I wrote at that tempo, the kind of drums I was imagining was these acoustic jungle inspired drums."
Sampha previewed the song during his recent Satellite Business shows in New York and London. He'll perform as part of Stormzy's own specially curated day at London's All Points East in August.
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