LIMITED EDITION WHITE VINYL
Release Date: 20th October 2023
"Not unlike its maker, ‘Lahai’ defies clear categorization. Spanning jazz, soul, rap, dance, jungle and West African music, ‘Lahai’ sees Sampha elevating his production and vocal ambition to great new heights. A notable singer, songwriter and producer, it’s no wonder that artists like Kendrick Lamar, Stormzy, Travis Scott, and previously Drake, Solange, Frank Ocean, Beyoncé, Lil Wayne and Alicia Keys have all tapped the artist for his inimitable voice plus songwriting and production contributions to their music. His work expands across multiple disciplines, with previous creative partnerships, including the fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner, the Shy Light zine with Durimel (who also shot the ‘Lahai’ artwork) his ‘Process’ film with director Kahlil Joseph, and most recently creative director Jonny Lu, with whom Sampha worked to create the ‘Lahai’ album artwork and logo. If ‘Process’, Sampha’s 2017 Mercury Prize-winning debut album, was an artist figuring out his own place in the world, engulfed in the shadows of grief and loss, ‘Lahai’ is an exercise in the radical acceptance and joy in the human condition, and the beauty in the journey itself."
