Reginald Omas Mamode IV, by Reginald Omas Mamode IV

Reginald Omas Mamode IV

by Reginald Omas Mamode IV

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Frederik David You can always talk to me. How repeating this sentence can give it a deeper and different meaning.
Reginald takes bits and pieces of music, puts them in a shaker and out comes this beautiful musical cocktail. Favorite track: Talk To Me.

T EVERYTHING THIS MAN PUTS OUT KNOCKS! Favorite track: Round N Round.

𝕋𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕕𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕝 Every bit as good as we’ve come to expect from Mamode. Favorite track: Talk To Me.

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1.	Bruk Out 02:54	buy track
2.	Talk To Me 03:34	buy track
3.	Drums Of The Positive 01:00	buy track
4.	If You Want To Know 03:18	buy track
5.	Interlude 00:37	buy track
6.	Hush 03:30	buy track
7.	Bump It Up 02:53
8.	Round N Round 03:18	buy track
9.	Omas Sextet (Time, Rhythm, and Change) 01:44
10.	Simmer Down Now 02:37	buy track
11.	The Value 03:39	buy track
12.	Interlude 00:25	buy track
13.	From The Soul 03:03	buy track
14.	The Message 01:20	buy track
15.	Trust Me 03:27	buy track

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“A man of simple pleasures: soul sounds, peoples and stories, brothers, friends and family” Gilles Peterson
“Spiritual similarities to the likes of D'Angelo, Theo Parrish, J Dilla, and John Coltrane” Dummy Mag
“Cosmic-soul super talent. You need this guy on your radar” Stamp The Wax
“The equivalent of an aural hug” Boiler Room
“A lot of breadth and creativity” Ransom Note
“Imbued with the sounds of funk, Latin, soul, African Nubian music” Hyponik

The cult Peckham soul artist caps the release of three highly praised EPs with an album featuring his most confident songwriting to date. The album paints a collage of dusty drum hits, Sly Stone-esque bass lines and Mamode’s own one-take vocals. Themes go from the personal, such as relationship communication breakdown, to the universal, in the anti-war theme of ‘The Value’.

It remains grounded in a love of syncopated drums, played out in the Dilla-esque ‘Talk To Me’, or the free jazz of ‘Omas Sextet’. Elsewhere, on album opener ‘Bruk Out’, the broken beat scene collides with the groove based jazz fusion of Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters, whilst on ‘Drums Of The Positive’, Mamode channels the “slave island music of my father’s heritage… Maloya, Sega, Nyabinghi”.

"Nowadays music seems to be used more as a crutch for humanity.. Most people seem to have forgotten it's a life blood of our species. The natural rhythms of our hearts beating and the melodic instrument 'the voice' gifted to us at birth, are some physical examples of how inherent music is within our being. We all need this thing we call music. Just as all our ancestors did."
- Reginald Omas Mamode IV

This past year has seen Mamode perform live and DJ at the relaunch of London’s Jazz Cafe, Shapes, Ronnie Scott’s, Gottwood festival and dates in France, Netherlands and beyond. Headline UK and EU live dates will follow the album’s release in the autumn.

Along with Mo Kolours, Jeen Bassa, Henry Wu, Al Dobson Jr and Tenderlonious; he’s helped forge in the 22a co-operative that The FADER calls “a kaleidoscopic patchwork of hip-hop, house, and groove investigations bound by one thread: a timeless belief in rhythm as a universal language”.

Part percussive ancestral music, part post-Dilla funk, Mamode’s debut album is a galactic, joyful, and above all funky record. It is a statement of intent from this rising underground star.

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released October 14, 2016

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