World renowned beatboxer turned electronic singer-songwriter SK Shlomo

“SK Shlomo’s record squares up to depression with such style… brilliant music” – Eddy Temple-Morris

 

Best known as a collaborator with Bjork, Ed Sheeran and Damon Albarn, World Looping Champion SK Shlomo’s solo debut is partly a drive to address demons that lurked in his past. The first solo song that he’d ever truly opened up on, was the haunting, hypnotic The First Time, a multi-layered, richly-atmospheric recollection of losing his virginity.

“From the moment I made it, I knew it was more heartfelt than anything I’d written before,” he says. “I’d been listening to lots of Caribou, Jamie xx, James Blake and older acts I love like Massive Attack. The plan was to make soulful electro, but I didn’t really believe I could sing well enough.”

For a year he visited a vocal coach to help unlearn what beatboxing had taught him. “I had to stop doing some crazy shit with my tongue,” he laughs. “But when I relaxed, a key unlocked and my voice totally changed. In the past, I was always straining, trying to sing high and powerful. Suddenly, it was soft, low and gentle, which is how I speak. I realised it was easy to sound like myself.

‘Surrender’ is SK Shlomo’s intoxicating debut album exploring his struggle with depression and trauma recovery. Richly-atmospheric, blending beatboxing with epic synths and samples, the album journeys through life’s darkest moments and celebrates new beginnings.

 FIRST WAVE OF SK SHLOMO SURRENDER ALBUM TOUR 2019 DATES ANNOUNCED:

17 FEB CANTERBURY GULBENKIAN

20 FEB OXFORD JERICHO TAVERN

23 FEB BRIGHTON THE ROSE HILL

2 MAR WINCHESTER RAILWAY INN

8 MAR BEDFORD QUARRY THEATRE

21 MAR BRISTOL THE PLOUGH

29 MAR LONDON OSLO: ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY WITH FULL LIVE BAND

Book now: http://skshlomo.com/tour