James Berkeley ya gabatar da album na farko Lost Boy, Golden Hour

British multi-instrumentalist, producer da singer-songwriter James Berkeley - mafi kyau da aka sani a matsayin zamani frontman na UK neo-soul outfit Yakul - ya tafi a cikin solo territory tare da ta farko album ‘Lost Boy, Golden Hour’ da na al'ada na al'ada ‘Giving Me Love’ a 4th Yuli 2025.

Mixing elements of soul, jazz, dream pop, indie, da electronica, Berkeley yana samar da wani sauti wanda aka dace amma maimakon - yiwuwa Thundercat da Japanese Breakfast tare da shade na Washed Out. Bayan ya samu gabatarwa daga kamar Gilles Peterson (BBC 6 Music), Complex, da Earmilk, ta solo aiki yana gina a kan wannan asali tare da ƙananan kwarewa da ƙananan musicality.

"My sabon singles ‘Giving Me Love’ ne mai ban mamaki cewa har ma a cikin your lowest, da mutane mafi kusa da ka za ka iya ganin mafi kyau. Kuma ta hanyar su za ka iya samu shi ga ku." - James Berkeley

The album aka kammala da wani impulsive momen a gudu 2024. "Fuck it, I'm writing an album and I'm doing it now," James ya ce ta modest followers a kan Instagram. Duk da haka, ya ci gaba da masu zaman kansu, ya ƙara fiye da 30,000 abokin ciniki, da kuma cikakken wani album cikakken da aka rubuta, samar, yi da kuma mixed ta.

Hai ba mai ban sha'awa ga UK jazz, R&B da soul shirye-shirye, James ya ƙirƙirar da Yakul, daga sayar da Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club uku zuwa samar da Mereba da kuma samar da Incognito a kan Tomorrow's New Dream. Yana kuma tafiya kasa da kasa da kasa tare da Incognito, ya yi aiki a gida a Blue Note Tokyo da Blue Note Milan.

Out of the spotlight, ya kasance tsanani m: rarraba biyu EPs a matsayin solo artist da kuma aiki tare da tsawon lokaci na sana'a partner edbl, ciki har da su 2022 joint EP wanda ya sa'an nan da aka rage fiye da 2 miliyan streams. Yana kuma taimakawa akai-akai kamar Cosmo Pyke da kuma ci gaba da ƙirƙirar ma'aikata ga duk da studio kwarewa da magnetic live energy.

A ƙirƙirar falsetto, jazz-inflected piano voicings da kuma sha'awa ga analog synth texture, James Berkeley ne mai ban sha'awa mai ban sha'awa tare da wani abu don ce. Lost Boy, Golden Hour ne fiye da wani al'ada - shi ne wani al'ada na kwarewa.