Collaboration between Joshu (Antigua) & India Blue (England), finding folk patterns in our trans-Atlantic memories.



Lyrics
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Wind come take me now
Before I got my own way

Bartered by the night
Three knots take me west
In the morning

Shall we find the Summerland
Beneath the quickening?
The quickening

Tired morning sun
Changing tack alone
Again

Nothing left undone
Make good my way
Oh, Atlas

Shall we find the Summerland
Beneath the quickening?
The quickening

In between the I and me

Maybe I'm Honey

3 Knots

3 Knots (India Blue & Joshu)

Raised in Antigua & Barbuda on mangoes, calypso, and the ocean, Joshu crafts quietly beautiful indie folk songs meant for gentle afternoons or silent moments alone.  With British roots, his Caribbean childhood was steeped in the eclectic musical tastes of his parents and the island.  From John Martyn to Jack Johnson to King Short Shirt, these influences have inspired a beautiful combination of folk and groove with deep lyrical content.

His first EP Lines of Time, co-produced with Justin “JusBus” Nation (John Legend, Jah Cure, Kes) garnered over 2 million streams, with the single Where Did the Time Go winning the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2019.  Following this success, they collaborated again on the follow-up Ocean Daze EP, which interwove gaelic-inspired melodies and West Indian rhythms for a soft, nostalgic island sound.

Emerging from the pandemic, just as his covid project was getting dangerously close to becoming a full time job (he started a mushroom farm), Joshu returned with a Mahogany Session, featuring the title track of his new EP, way back home.  Inspired by a journey sailing across the Atlantic, the record serves as an introspective exploration of place, pondering how one comes to belong in a land, and the quiet discomfort of never feeling truly at home.