Rising soul balladeer Otis Kane ushers within the new yr together with his sophomore album, Violet, through Nettwerk Music Group.
The soulful set is preceded by the singles “Morning Solar,” “Dance With You,” “Honey” with Sugar Joans, “Genius,” “Scorpio,” and the most recent providing, “Tomorrow.”
Relating to the lead providing, “Morning Solar,” he shared, “My studio is bathed in daylight each morning, which impressed the lyrics. The solar at all times shining on me right here in LA makes it straightforward to put in writing about its heat and positivity.”
Violet blooms with soul-nourishing tunes, with love at its root. On the craving “Breathe,” Kane feels with out air at any time when his lover isn’t round. In the meantime, the tender acoustic ballad “Heartbeat” is a plea for affection. “I simply wanna really feel your heartbeat subsequent to me / I simply wanna shut my eye so I can see,” he sings on the latter tack.
Kane says the follow-up to his debut album, Purple BLUE, represents an evolution. “Creating [Violet] has been a real pleasure and an unbelievable expertise. These songs characterize an actual evolution for me, each as an artist and an individual. The album is a journey by means of my musical influences, my most artistic moments, and a few of my happiest instances,” says Kane.
He provides, “Most of this music was fastidiously crafted with my closest collaborators, D Mills and Peter Simon, alongside just a few different very proficient creatives who helped me push the boundaries of what I might think about and create. The result’s an album I’m extremely happy with, and I can’t anticipate the world to listen to it!”
Relating to the duvet artwork, he notes, “The art work was impressed by my love for ’70s file sleeves and the gorgeous portraits discovered on soul LPs of that period.”
Following the discharge of his Rising Pains EP in February 2021, Otis Kane launched Purple BLUE that June. “This album is really a step into my world. Each music is a mirrored image of my life, all the music a illustration of my style, and what strikes me,” Kane defined. “If you happen to hear from high to backside, you may really feel how the music and the tales exist collectively like totally different scenes of the identical film.”
Kane was scheduled to carry out at his Violet album launch celebration on Jan. 9 at Gold-Diggers in Los Angeles. Nevertheless, as a result of devasting California wildfires, he has postponed the present. A brand new date has not been introduced presently.
Stream Otis Kane’s new album Violet under. A vinyl version of the album is obtainable for presave at otiskane.com.