IG: www.instagram.com/_respair_/
Email: respair.music@gmail.com
Music video: youtu.be/ZH-CxGljvAQ (by www.instagram.com/holotx)

A mesmerising mix of cold electronics, warm vocals and raw emotion that creates a buoyant pulse and a mood that is subtly optimistic. “Colours” explores vulnerability, opening up and being at peace - effortlessly moving from soaring beats to lush piano sounds. Whilst the song has a conversational, maybe revelatory tone - it is actually a dialogue with oneself, a moment of introspection, inner freedom and enjoying the act of being your true self.

respair is a London-based jazz-electronic quartet. A return to hope, true to the name.

Segun Haughton - vocals
Andrey Novikov - keys, programming
Milo Craig - bass
David Mordechai - drums

Recorded at Noatune Studios, London
Sound engineer and mixing - Lucas Mendes
Mastering - Marcel van Limbeek

respair - Colours

IG: www.instagram.com/_respair_/
Email: respair.music@gmail.com

Opening with its warming, intimate chords, "Hold On to Me" leads invitingly into an instantly catchy groove, reverberating with tender vocals and neo-soulful pulse. It's a serene depiction of the human quest for intimacy, belonging and safety, with verses that grow and unfurl, carrying the listener on a journey through cold waves of jagged, driving drums, fluid bass line riffs and on to its climax - a series of at turns towering and scorching keyboard improvisations, before offering the listener a quiet moment for reflection as the outro lulls and dissipates.

“Hold On to Me” was recorded as a live take at London Noatune studios to capture raw energy and then carefully produced with lush textures and additional vocal lines. Blending musicianship of immense power but also delicacy to form a piece that both writhes with intensity and bewitches in its sincerity, respair extend to the listener an invitation full of compassion - to connect with those most guarded, hidden parts of self, to embrace one's need and desire for true closeness and to listen to one's spirit - so that we, too, may feel seen, heard and held.

respair is a London-based jazz-electronic quartet. A return to hope, true to the name.

Segun Haughton - vocals
Andrey Novikov - keys, programming
Milo Craig - bass
David Mordechai - drums

Recorded at Noatune Studios, London
Sound engineer and mixing - Lucas Mendes
Mastering - Marcel van Limbeek
@_respair_

respair - Hold On To Me

respair performing "Capacity" live at Cockpit Theatre in London as part of London Jazz Festival and Jazz in the Round series, November 2023

Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wjcTWYeVg

Segun Haughton - vocals
Andrey Novikov - keys, programming
Milo Craig - bass
David Mordechai - drums

respair is a London-based jazz-electronic quartet, palpably hypnotic and cinematic. Jazz sensibilities, classical training, emotive vocals and an eclectic, soulful palette. Sound interwoven with difficult truths and laden with profound meaning. Arresting, poignant stories that evoke distinct pasts and serene melodies that both envelop and free you, sending you off towards an odyssey-like horizon, healing you like some mystical revelation. A return to hope, true to the name.

Email: respair.music@gmail.com
IG: www.instagram.com/_respair_/

Recorded live at Cockpit Theatre in London on 17th November 2023
Camera by Sam Betts and Joseph Taussig
Sound engineer Nick Burkinyoung
Editing and Grading by Andrey Novikov, Tayisiya Shovgelia
Mixing and Mastering by Andrey Novikov

Special thanks to Cockpit Theatre for having us and the help with sound engineering and recording.

respair - Capacity (Live @ London Jazz Festival 2023)

respair is a London-based jazz-electronic quartet, palpably hypnotic and cinematic. Jazz sensibilities, classical training, emotive vocals and an eclectic, soulful palette. Sound interwoven with difficult truths and lyrics laden with profound meaning. Arresting, poignant stories that evoke distinct pasts and serene melodies that both envelop and free you, sending you off towards an odyssey-like horizon, healing you like some mystical revelation. A return to hope, true to the name.

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