TINY LITTLE SECRET

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JAKAARLO (EP) out now - https://ffm.to/jakaarlo
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​​​​Just wait
it’s a little secret
I need to
Tell you something
Just wait
it’s a little secret
I need to
Tell you something
If I stare
If I stare at your mouth
Would you open it up for me now?
If I cared
If I cared for you like you said that you wanted
Would you be mine?
Would you be mine?
So simple
Can’t believe I never tried it
Lay down in silence
And don’t come out of hiding
Just wait
It’s a little secret
I need to
Tell you something
Just wait
It’s a little secret
I need to
Tell you something
Just wait
It’s a little secret
I need to
Tell you something
Just wait
It’s a little secret
I need to
Tell you something
But you wanna talk about it
Bet you wouldn’t leave without it
Bet you feel robbed without it
Oh you made me leave my body
On your knees, eyes up
How often you’ll see me
Knees, eyes up on an end goal
So simple
So simple now
Can’t believe I never tried it
Lay down in silence
And don’t come out of hiding
Just wait
It’s a little secret
I need to
Tell you something
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papa mbye writes experimental pop songs threading flourishes of electronic, R&B, soul, and more. Born in The Gambia, raised in North Minneapolis, and a relative newcomer to making music after starting as a visual artist, he’s taken strides in his sound in a short time. With his new self-produced EP, JAKAARLO, he brings his voice into focus, exercising restraint in arrangements while pushing his craft forward. Songs burst with color, texture, and hooks.
JAKAARLO is a meditation on closeness. Not just the kind shared between lovers, but the elusive kind that drifts between memory, distance, and desire. The title, which translates from Wolof as “to be close to”, is borrowed from a song by the late Senegalese musician N'dongo Lo appearing on his 2005 album Adouna. With JAKAARLO, mbye channels that sense of appreciation for the entirety of love, the real and the raw, the fleeting and finite, the spaces between people, tense, messy, and beautiful. Joined by a cast of collaborators, mbye wields layers of instrumentation and voice into vibrant, future-facing material that declares his arrival as both a visionary producer and performer.
The mood board for JAKAARLO spans the music of his youth (Youssou N'Dour, N'dongo Lo) and the boundless off-kilter pop of Jai Paul, alongside mbye’s friends and contemporaries: Minneapolis artists Young Dervish, Vlush, KINFU, and Ryan Olson (Bon Iver, Gayngs, Poliça), who contributed on the album. papa mbye’s music rumbles, rattles, and darts between modes, welcoming high-wattage basslines, guitar riffs, and synth tones in a hyperactive, mesmeric mix. At the center is his emotive voice, capable of raspy croon and howling falsetto.
Across the far-reaching set, Mbye experiments with rhythm and structure. He taps into a pattern nodding to Radiohead’s “Idioteque” for “TINY LITTLE SECRET”, a burner detailing the simple bliss of having a crush.
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