Sampha - Process Info Album
Earlier this year, Sampha re-surfaced with his single “Timmy’s Prayer.” He also appeared on Kanye West’s latest addition to The Life of Pablo, “Saint Pablo,” as well as Frank Ocean’s visual album Endless on a song called “Alabama.” Today, he’s released another new song, which will appear on his forthcoming debut LP, Process. It’s called “Blood on Me,” and it’s out via Young Turks. Sampha produced the song, along with Rodaidh McDonald. Listen to the track and see the single artwork below.
Tracklist Process :
1. Plastic 100°C
2. Blood On Me
3. Kora Sings
4. No One Knows Me (Like the Piano)
5. Take Me Inside
6. Reverse Faults
7. Under
8. Timmy's Prayer
9. Incomplete Kisses
10. What Shouldn't I Be?
When he was 11, Sampha Sisay, a Londoner of West African descent, composed his first song. He can’t recall its full title now, but it was something like “Believe God’s Promise.” Despite the suggestion of overt religious compliance, it actually questioned the very concept of belief. “It was basically me asking that if God was real, then why was there all this pain in the world?” he says.
If this seems pretty philosophical for a preteen, then it’s worth noting that his father had died of lung cancer just two years prior, a seismic event that not only stayed with him but established a very particular vein of soul-searching that continues to mark his songwriting today. Now 27, Sampha is perhaps the most exciting new British talent to emerge since James Blake, another electronic-based singer-songwriter whose songs plumb self-reflection to often breathtaking effect. He sings in a way that makes his tracks sound like confessionals, like it hurts him to do so. And now, three years after his debut six-track EP, Dual, he is releasing his first full album, Process, which merges lyrical themes of existential doubt with exquisitely haunting, minimal beats.
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