The BBC Introducing Mixtape 🔊 (BBC 6 Music) - 6

Keeping69

on a virgin land, you seem to drift away
on the trail of someone from another plane
from a virgin land, you can't seem to escape
following a scent that comes from nowhere

loud is the chant that no one hears
proud is the man that no one sees

i-i-i-i-i sing to you-u-u-u-u
a-a-a-a-at fifty two-o-o-o hertz

on a virgin land, you seem to waste away
following a voice getting lost in a haze
on a virgin land, you crawl, day after day
following a sound that comes from nowhere

loud is the chant that no one hears
proud is the man that no one sees

i-i-i-i-i sing to you-u-u-u-u
a-a-a-a-at fifty two-o-o-o hertz

52 hertz

Slowly, slowly does it.
I need time to separate my head 
My heart 
Controls it
and I feel
I am prone to overfeeling
But please understand how long I spent so tired of living

But these are only emotions
And none of them matter

I'm well aware that I can be intense at the corner of my eye I see you are rolling yours.
I'm well aware that I can be intense at the back of my mind I can see you are changing yours.

Slowly, slowly does it.
I need time to separate my head 
My heart 
Controls it
(Burns it to the ground)
And I think
I am prone to overthinking
But please understand how long I spent so tired of living

Cause it is all an Illusion
And none of it matters

I'm well aware that I can be intense at the corner of my eye I see you are rolling yours.
I'm well aware that I can be intense at the back of my mind I can see you are changing yours.

Illusions (Radio Edit)

The song is inspired by Rod Stewart, who visited the Rio Carnival with Elton John and Freddie Mercury in summer 1978, where Brazilian artist Jorge Ben’s huge hit Taj Mahal was playing everywhere. When he came back to the UK, Rod plundered Jorge's melody for Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? He was later faced with a court case and forced to donate all proceeds to UNICEF. On the same song, Rod also nabbed the riff from a Bobby Womack song!

Blondes (Have More Fun)

Fine

No Gloom

My father died during the production of this track so the title gives something away of the mood leading to his final days. For Dad

Searching For Hope

Can't Forget You

Coldplay

Coldplay (feat. Vic Mensa)

One Specific Thing

Bethnal Green Blues

Hands Closing

Sugarcane present their smouldering, melancholy new single 'Midland Girls', released through Frizz Records on November 13. 
 
Sugarcane is the brainchild of Robin French, who played Jools Holland and toured with Amy Winehouse with his former band Mr Hudson & The Library. Robin’s now probably best known as a playwright and screenwriter – creating and writing five series of the BBC sitcom ‘Cuckoo’ and having plays produced by the RSC, The National and The Royal Court.  
 
Sugarcane assembles a diverse coterie of collaborators to create a seductive blend of blissed-out Brazilian rhythm, alongside the sardonic, barbed humour of classic British indie songwriting.

Midland Girls (Remaster)

Downer Disco

Moment

I Want

Sugarcane fuses British indie songwriting with the Brazilian rhythms that have fascinated main man Robin French since his early teens in Birmingham, UK. Robin is the former bassist of Mr. Hudson and the Library, who played Jools Holland and supported Amy Winehouse, The Police and Kanye West. 

BAFTA award-winning actor Antonia Thomas (Misfits, Lovesick, The Good Doctor, Small Axe) is a regular guest contributor on vocal duties. 

After leaving the Library, Robin got his bass stolen while travelling in South America, but came back bewitched by bossa nova guitar playing. Songs came to him that combined bookish indie sensibilities, blissed-out samba grooves and his own Caribbean heritage. 

Back in London, he found himself at a rooftop party with two Brazilian exiles from Bolsanaro - drummer Xande Oliveira (Alison Moyet, Max de Castro) and double bassist Klaus Stahr (Captain Ska, Trio Dona Zefa). Steel pan player and professional dancer Claire Niestyo-Bame completes the line-up. 

Debut album Cat’s Eyes released on July 9th features the singles that have put the band on the map of important tastemakers including The Line of Best Fit, 6Music and Louder Than War.  

“Sugarcane is as sweet as it sounds - French is a bossa nova mastermind” The Evening Standard  

“Addictive melancholia…transcendent… Pure brilliance” Earmilk

"a gorgeous melody... This is music to lose yourself in. Beautifully done” Fresh On The Net

Blondes (Have More Fun)

Sugarcane

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