SK Shlomo performs live and gives a deep interview on identity to Nihal's 5 million listeners on BBC 5Live. Recorded at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2022

Live: BBC 5Live at Edinburgh Festival

How many 90s rave references can you spot? ✨ The third single from my forthcoming BREATHE LP, Alive is a study of the #rave tunes that inspired me to create a one-person show called BREATHE that won an Edinburgh Fringe Award last summer!

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BREATHE

Alive

To make sacred means to hold you life as an exquisite masterpiece, each moment blessed with the capability to bring your daily doings into the divine space and place of sacred hands. By the use of attention, small prayers, ceremony.
This episode explores how your life can be transformed by creating sacred space for all you go through.  


S02-LIVE AWAKE

S02-MAKE IT SACRED

Sensual and slow-building, ‘Invisible’ is the first single from Surrender, the intoxicating debut album from genre-defying, recording-breaking beatboxer, producer and live-looper SK Shlomo, opening up for the first time about his struggle with depression. 

Richly-atmospheric, blending beatboxing with epic synths and samples and drawing influences from Massive Attack, James Blake and Radiohead, the album journeys through life’s darkest moments and celebrates new beginnings

Invisible is a slow building beast with brutal lyrics blending with beautiful electronic sounds and over 100 layers of haunting vocal harmonies inspired by his Middle-Eastern immigrant heritage. 

“Invisible is about feeling something creeping in whilst you’re looking away and quietly destroying everything you have. It’s me taking my pain and making it my power.”

Written, produced and performed by SK Shlomo 
Mixed and mastered by Dom Howard Music

Lyrics:
Didn’t even know I’m wounded 
I bled so gradually 
On the outside all was perfect 
Unpick normality

Invisible 
Fragmented particles 
They take it all 
Treasure infected

And now we’ve missed the sunset 
And now we’ve lost it all 
And now their mouths’ still open 
How do we let 
How did we let this go?

But I don’t miss the sky 
It’s you that I need

Invisible (single)

Invisible

In this episode we bring you highlights from author Matt Haig’s recent interview at Southbank Centre about his new book Notes on a Nervous Planet and musician and campaigner Jordan Stephens talks to Ted Hodgkinson about the relationship between mental health and creativity. 

"There's a lot of 'I' and 'self' wrapped up in the consumerist world we live in."
JORDAN STEPHENS

Following on from the mould-breaking memoir Reasons to Stay Alive, Matt Haig’s new book is a personal look at living with anxiety in the age of social media. We bring you key moments from his conversation last month with Bryony Gordon, offering insights on the why staying happy is difficult in our comparative culture and the relationship between the internet and his writing process.


Jordan Stephens is best known as one half of the hip hop duo Rizzle Kicks and has since lead a range of campaigns challenging stigma about mental health including for YMCA and NHS. He talks candidly about the expectations of fame, masculinity and anxiety have shaped his life and fuelled his music.

Mental health and creativity featuring Matt Haig and Jordan Stephens

Remix for Poison by Rachel K Collier http://www.rachelkcollier.com/

POISON - Rachel K Collier (SLY Madchester Future REMIX )

My ode to the lifesaving power of music, Are You Ready is the second single from my forthcoming BREATHE LP.

There's a real depth of meaning to the song for me: reconnecting to music literally saved my life when i hit a life-threatening mental health crisis.

But equally, it could just be seen as a lighthearted 90s throwback banger ✨

So - Are YOU ready?

Are You Ready

Several years ago, SK Shlomo (they/them) got sick. 10 years deep into a colourful career, they were a world-record holding beatboxer, a celebrated theatre maker and a well-respected collaborator with the likes of Björk, Gorillaz, Imogen Heap and Rudimental.

They had become the first ever World Looping Champion, brought Ed Sheeran onstage as their guest at Glastonbury, been the first non-classical Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre, and even been the subject of an award-winning feature film.

But something had shifted. In the midst of a near suicidal depression, they stopped performing. Shlomo spent almost two years off the road, recovering what felt lost. A series of personal revelations changed the way that Shlomo viewed themselves and their work.

The result is BREATHE, an award-winning one-person show, alongside the upcoming second LP of the same name forming the show’s 90s rave soundtrack. BREATHE is more personal than any of their previous output, exploring themes they have never before shared in public about coming out as non-binary, being foreign, handling their disability, battling suicide and, ultimately, the healing power of rave.

Blending the energy of a festival with the storytelling of theatre in a distillation of their entire career, BREATHE opens with first single Wave, The Prodigy-esque ode to ADHD, and ends with an electric, neon-bright celebration, proving the power and joy in publicly being exactly who you are.

Find out more: skshlomo.com
Management: info@nebulaproductions.co.uk

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