Sharing a whole new side of herself as she experiments with nostalgic sounds of jazz and soul JGrrey offers escapism and life on her latest single ‘Drream’.
Expressive and freeing there is a magnetic feel to the beat that makes you want to surrender as Jgrrey executes an exploration into a sonic world built from the sampling of multi-instrumentalist Harry Jowett.
Produced by Ivor Novello nominee Owen Cutts, the track is composed of emotive jazz formed by an expressive saxophone, piano notes and light percussion that provide the perfect space for the Londoner’s soulful vocals as she languidly glides over the beat.
On the track, the South Londoner also teams up with Brooklyn rapper Zombie Juice who provides a typical and authentic New York feel.
Speaking on the track, she says “Working with Owen Cutts is maybe the reason I’m still making music, he knows the music I listen to, because he listens to it too, we talk about old records and new tracks and when we make music we’re really just tryna make something we love… I love Drream, it feels full circle for me…
we sampled my friend Harry’s track..then we sampled me…then we sampled some sax..and then I asked Flatbush Zombie (who I’ve been listening to since I was 18) to jump on it, Jewice is someone who i can say outright i am a fan of.
Seeing Flatbush Zombies live changed my life, I remember being able to hang downstairs at Village Underground before the show with them, Jewice had such a charming and sincere energy about him.. I remember thinking he might be the coolest person I’d ever met. Being so inspired by NY, and Rap music and samples, this one feels special.”
JGrrey also has a new full-length mixtape “If Not Now?” scheduled for release in late October, the tape includes earlier tracks released this year like ‘Boys?’ and ‘Theirs13’.
Full tracklist is below
1.When?
2.Drream Ft. Zombie Juice
3.Theirs13
4.May Ft Kojey Radical
5.Superrfly
6.Boys?
7.Sick Of Me
8.Marble Flaws
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