Why Me is the first single lifted from his debut concept EP 'States Of Being' planned for April 30th.  
"Why Me is about this feeling or state we all go through whether we care to admit it or not, its's not quite anger nor is it quite contemplation, but rather a mixture of both"

States of Being is an e.p that blurs the boundaries between jazz, hip-hop, gospel, garage and grime. The result is both expansive and intricate, scanning the vast spectrum of Black music.


Players


*E.piano (soloist) 
Diân Gasper

Synth Bass
Donal Pywell 

Drums/ SPD 
Jeremy Berges 

*Steel Pan (soloist) 
Marlon Hibbert

Additional Keys 
Adam Fletcher. 

Horns- (the Biscuit Horns) 
James Mayhew - Trumpet
Yusuf Narçin - Trombone

Saxophone - soloist 
Lewis Daniel

Voice Acting
Sophie Vandyke 



Produced by- Adam Fletcher  Assistant  Engineer - Osian Hooson 
Photography- Naz Stone
Art and Animation- Mike Mcshane

Why Me

San Francisco Bay Area Based Indie Label 

www.warpedpla.net

Marcus is a musician and spoken word artist and his sound can be described as a warm fusion of Jazz, Reggae, Hip-Hop and Contemporary Music. 

His debut album Beyond the Dome was released on the Jazz Refreshed label.

His work has been supported by Tom Robinson (6Music), Gilles Peterson (6 Music), Tony Minvielle (Jazz FM), Dj Lanni (Worldwide FM) and Jay Phelps (Jazz FM, Worldwide FM).

Band of Hope & Glory 

Middle England is what you get when a group of misfits are thrown together on a small island that can’t stand itself. Moody, angry, caught between the desire to live life to the fullest and the sense of being beaten down by a world which regards you with suspicion and hatred - this is troubled music for troubled times, made by a bunch of people with little to lose and less left to live for.

Middle England’s music melts down a whole host of musical lineages for scrap. Punk - both the first-wave heroes of the 1970s and modern torch-bearers like Sleaford Mods - fights it out with hip-hop, dub, synth-pop and dancehall in Middle England’s instrumentals. The licks may be sweet and the choruses may be stirring, but there’s more than a pinch of grit in the oyster here.

Atop these grizzled beats, vocalist Lucky Jones delivers lyrics which pull at the threads of the UK’s troubled national psyche. Sometimes he’ll tackle these matters head on, railing against modern Britain’s hate-thy-neighbour culture; other approaches are more subtle, his street-level poetry and introspective flights of fancy offering something like escape from the everyday insanity of … well, of Middle England.

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Using genres to bushwhack through other genres.

“Forward thinking Jazz Musician- Jazz Izatt BBC Introducing”
“This Is Bold Genre Defying Jazz - Fresh Faves, Fresh On The Net”

Lewis’s music is expansive, intricate, conceptual, scanning the vast spectrum of Black music. Combined with his own cultural heritage as a native south Londoner and black British Caribbean, Lewis delivers music that blurs the boundaries between jazz, hip-hop, gospel, garage and grime and many other genres too.

He is an In-demand session musician and arranger, he is a member of many high profile groups including House Gospel Choir, MOBO award winning gospel artist Rachel Kerr , The Last Dinosaur, Boadi. Last year saw him tour with Florence + The Machine in the states and sessions including Cat Burns, Primal Scream and Waiting For Smith. 

He is currently working on his next release which will be a full album following his debut e.p States of Being which has had support from BBC Introducing Mixtape (Tom Robinson BBC Radio 6), BBC Radio London (Robert Elms Show) Worldwide FM, Soho Radio, Jazz FM, Twisted Soul to name a few.