BUTTER is the first single off the debut album by San Francisco Bay Area raised and Philly based artist Vessna Scheff. With mesmerizing vocal harmonies, shimmering 90’s to early 2000’s synths, and an 80’s club backbeat, BUTTER drops you right into the feeling of being swoon by your crush under the disco ball at the roller rink. Overtaken with feeling, you can’t help but brave your skates and make your way over to them, hoping you become “smooth like butter.” Inspired by a desire to feel playful, fun, sexy, and confident while navigating being a caregiver during the pandemic, Scheff wrote this song inspired by Adult Skate Night (unofficially known as Black skate night at rinks throughout the U.S.) as a dreamscape of the freedom found on the rink. Together with her collaborator Lee Clarke, Scheff builds an electrifying current glistening with the anticipation and rush of pushing off the rink wall, and gliding into your confidence.

BUTTER

Serving up the second seductive single for the debut album by artist Vessna Scheff, "JAM" compels us to melt off wall and glide into our vulnerability on roller skates during a night at the rink. Inspired by movement and the necessity to cultivate deep joy during challenging times, Scheff creates a space to move through emotions by activating joy through play, and letting the rest unravel.

A tantalizing third single from the debut album by Vessna Scheff, "SLIDE" is a buttery smooth declaration of attraction. This dreamscape crafted from the need to unravel difficult emotions through movement, takes us to hazy pulsing lights on the dance floor or gliding out across the roller rink, with a desire to exhale into the moment--fully empowered.

SLIDE

Echoes

Watercolors

You Carved My Love

Intro By Gooch

nodding

when you first walked in 
looking kinda slim 
and hunched over baby 
head bent down 
starring at the ground 
nodding, nodding, nodding to that beat.. 

then your eyes dipped up and down 
and met mine 
you caught my eye.. 
your vibe was fine... 

but see I ain't trying to be nobody's lady 
but sipping on some love is good to me 
and I ain't trying to be nobody's lady 
cause I know love don't come with a guarantee 

but I can promise you that I will be true at least for a night or two.. 

just the way you hit that beat 
makes a move inside of me 
and I can't help but to think of you 

just the way you looked at me 
my knees started to weaken 
and the words you chose to speak 
used my heart beating 
you're always on my mind...

Released August 25, 2017 
Vessna Scheff - vocals, ukulele, percussion 
Koofreh Umoren - trumpet, background vocals 
Lee Clarke - keyboards, percussion, guitar 
Ian O’Beirne - tenor saxophone, flute 
Kevin Ripley - drums

NODDING

echoes

like a river flows, you'll pass by 
carving canyons in the rocks of my 
my sounds and my tones 
into the wood of my bones 
leaving echoes of your soul in mine 

we each walk our own paths 
but I'm so glad yours crossed mine 
cause we gotta go where the wind blows to pick up the pieces of our minds 
i like how you tell me 
i like how you show 
i like how you tell me with your time 
but we gotta where the wind blows 
and i'm so glad yours crossed mine 

like a river flows, you'll pass by 
carving canyons in the rocks of my 
my sounds and my tones 
into the wood of my bones 
leaving echoes of your soul in mine 

like a river flows, you'll pass by 
carving canyons in the rocks of my 
my sounds and my tones 
into the wood of my bones 
leaving echoes of your soul in mine
credits
released April 20, 2017 
Vessna Scheff :: uke, vocals, percussion 
Kiley Ryan :: violin 
Steve Beskrone :: double bass 
Kevin Ripley :: drums 
Koof Ibi :: trumpet, uke, percussion 
Ian O’Beirne :: tenor saxophone, flute 
Lee Clarke :: cello, percussion, everything + the reason why all those things sound good together

ECHOES

Vessna Scheff is the 90’s baby whose pin drop performances and enrapturing vocal harmonies are swooning audiences. With a shimmering synth-ony of buttery sounds one could hear gliding across the skate rink in her debut album- coming summer 2024- Scheff makes irresistible the strength of intimate connection and community conveyed through every lyric and body melting funk bass line. Disrupting divides between visual and performing arts with a Masters from the Rhode Island School of Design, this multi-hyphenate artist effortlessly breathes visuals into vocal runs for immersive performances. She delivers an acquired awareness of self-love grown from caregiving, inspiring an appreciation of deep joy and embodiment. Raised on R&B, Hip-Hop, Folk and Classical music in the San Francisco Bay Area, Scheff’s sonic repertoire expanded through collaborations with producer Lee Clarke to include beats, Jazz, and the Soul swaying sounds of Philadelphia, where she moved in 2017. Through the dips and swells of the journey–feeling fully as we go– Scheff is serving up an iconic debut of mesmerizing, era defying sound.

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