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出生就有絕對音感，12 歲開始迷戀爵士鋼琴與鼓，現在 23 歲的倫敦臥房音樂家發行了出色的首張專輯《Welcome Home》，結合了靈魂、放克、yacht rock、嘻哈、爵士，甚至掛上了些許 bossa nova，不經意會飄出 Michael Jackson、Bill Evans、George Benson、Jamiroquai 的味道，最近想要找令人陶醉的律動佳作，這張不能錯過。
Written and recorded in a series of bedroom studios in England and France, London-based Gareth Donkin extraordinary debut, Welcome Home, showcases the 23-year-old stunning mix of instrumental virtuosity and emotional intuition, blending highly sophisticated melodic and harmonic craftsmanship with deeply moving lyrical explorations of longing, desire, and determination. The songs here draw on soul, funk, pop, yacht rock, hip-hop, jazz, and even bossa nova, hinting at times to everything from Michael Jackson and Bill Evans to George Benson and Jamiroquai, and Donkin performances are nothing short of mesmerizing, layering up instrument after instrument in the best one-man-band tradition of Prince or Stevie Wonder. The result is a moving work that equal parts brain and brawn, a masterful coming-of-age self-portrait from a young artist discovering himself—and his sound—one song at a time.
Born with perfect pitch, Donkin was already fanatically obsessed with both jazz piano and drums before he turned twelve. In high school, he began DJing and teaching himself to record and sample, and by the time he headed to the Leeds College of Music to pursue a degree in production, he was already writing and recording his own material at home. His first single, “Catharsis,” would go on to rack up more than a million streams on Spotify, and a series of subsequent tracks would find similarly organic success and help land him a deal with the burgeoning drink sum wtr label.
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