Description

As an artist, composer, producer, writer, and co-founder of Sooper Records, so much of NNAMDI s life is go go go, do do do, produce produce produce, with precious little time to stop. Take a Breath. Have a Seat. Please Have a Seat finds NNAMDI writing through those calmer moments as he s been able to capture them; to sit down, pause, and write twelve songs. If there is comfort here among the common themes, it s the comfort in finding wisdom and gaining confidence. Pausing, but also knowing there maybe is no real pause, that every moment is one to grow as a human, to reflect or learn. In fact, Please Have a Seat is bookended by two songs about running, about finding those moments in motion, getting out of go-brain and into something deeper, more elemental. That these are pop songs to NNAMDI is telling; the hooks are there, melodies and chorus lines that make Please Have a Seat warm and inviting. But the articulations are nonlinear, and NNAMDI s Please Have a Seat isn t a story or narrative collection so much as an incantation, a conjuring of elements with an almost synesthetic quality. Sounds, styles and themes crisscross into focus, giving a glimpse into NNAMDI s inspiration and inviting us to please have a seat ourselves, to make our own moment and our own meaning of it. With Please Have a Seat, NNAMDI doesn t so much tell a story as show us the power of it s requisite pieces.

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