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Freedom TV

by WAYNE SNOW

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Rob Alahn
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Rob Alahn harmonies over hi hats!!! 🔥 Favorite track: Drunk.
DJ V From CHICAGO
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DJ V From CHICAGO Too much 🔥🔥 on this album to be forced to choose just one, as he has a very original voice and sound that is both soulful and ethereal. Very nice project from top to bottom. 💯💯🔊🔊⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Favorite track: Freedom R.I.P.
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round cornerless Timeless album with brilliant vocals and great productions by Max Graef.
Favorite track: Red Runner
R Deschamps
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R Deschamps This album will be in my top 10 for 2017. ESSENTIAL Favorite track: Rosie.
Philip Graham
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Philip Graham Woozy funky strange, smooth and weird and jazzy--when it comes to this smart and soulful music, "Oh baby there is nothing wrong" is absolutely right. Favorite track: Cooler.
Carver Frazier
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Carver Frazier Wayne Snows gentle yet driving rhythms are unlike anything you might hear on the charts this year. His gentle voice is calming, but his beats still bring a youthful energy to the dance floor in this release.
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Cooler 02:51
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Drunk 03:57
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Red Runner 04:07
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The Rhythm 03:44
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Rosie 03:17
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Fall 02:58
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about

Copenhagen-based label Tartelet Records to release Wayne Snow debut album ’Freedom TV’

After two incredible EPs, Wayne Snow — the Nigerian-born, Berlin-based vocalist and songwriter — now presents his debut album on Tartelet Records. Freedom TV is the natural sequel to the Max Graef-produced tasters Red Runner (2014) and Rosie (2015); a project marinated in Afro-Caribbean, soulful grooves and topped by Wayne’s effortless falsetto acrobatics.

As the title suggests, Freedom TV (due March 2017) is an album with themes of liberty, struggle and creative identity pumping through its veins. Within ten tracks, Snow fluently meanders between musical styles: from low-tempo soothers like album opener “Cooler” and “Fall” to the syncopated bruk of “The Rhythm” and cosmic funk escapades found on “Nothing Wrong”.

Recorded over a period of two years, it’s also realised in part by new surroundings: “Coming to Berlin was a liberation because I could play with many things, especially electronic music, and approach it freely regardless of the fact that I was African”, notes Wayne. “Being in Berlin also helped me to fully understand the origin of electronic music which is unmistakably black.”

Production comes from three varied and solid sources. The tag-team between Snow and fellow Berliner, Max Graef — which started on Graef’s still unfuckwithable 2014 debut Rivers of the Red Planet — is in full effect. The result is six tracks (“Cooler”, “Still In The Shell”, “Drunk”, “Red Runner”, “Rosie” & “Fall”) anchored by Graef’s now-signature brew of warm-to-the-touch boom-bap, soul, jazz and house. Elsewhere, trips to see the French capital and Neue Grafik yielded three stormers: “The Rhythm”, “Freedom R.I.P” and “Nothing But The Best”.

Naples-based duo Nu Guinea also lend a hand on “Nothing Wrong”, an uptempo jam which will receive remix treatment from Ge-ology as well as the pair themselves.

The works of criminally overlooked, Zimbabwean guerilla fighter-poet, Freedom TV Nyamubaya (✝1958-2015), bind everything together. It’s her verses which occupy the end of soul-searching, Peven Everett-esque joint “Freedom R.I.P” and provide a regular referential touchpoint.

More than anything, Freedom TV is the soundtrack for anyone seeking a wholesome exploration of groove. Smooth and contagiously danceable at points, Wayne Snow has arrived in album territory with an assured cool.

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released March 23, 2017

Produced by Max Graef, Nu Guinea, Neue Grafik and Wayne Snow
Lyrics by Wayne Snow

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WAYNE SNOW Berlin, Germany

There’s an undeniable warmth to Wayne Snow’s music, one that combines a contemporary
take on the sun kissed, soulful vibes of his homeland with neo-soul, alternative pop,
soultronica
, and jazz. His musical heritage and upbringing in Nigeria listening to artists like
Sade, King Sunny Ade, Marvin Gaye, and Fela Kuti shines through, as does a deep respect and
love for Afrofuturism.
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