Name: Songs for Midi EP
Brand: Kwes

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

wap407

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

12” EP in 3mm outer sleeve with paper inners and download card insert

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-04-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0801061940713

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1 / 12" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Kwes

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Warp

Five years after the release of Kwes.’ debut album Ilp, he’s back and releases Songs For Midi. Even though his solo release output has not been ever present since the release of Ilp, it certainly does not mean he hasn’t been busy. He’s been writing, producing and playing with a whole host of artists, including Bobby Womack, NAO, Solange, and Loyle Carner and mixed label mate Kelela’s debut album Take Me Apart. The EP marks a desire to get back to making music for himself with a freedom and almost painterly looseness to his sounds and composition, showing a producer just enjoying himself. It demonstrates how kwes. has matured musically in the past half a decade, rather than be influenced by other musicians and producers he takes note from people, places and instances that surround him. Songs for Midi, even though mature in its sound, maintains that consequential childlike element upon which kwes. has built his repertoire. The EP is an ode to his two year old niece Midi; it’s an opus about childhood discoveries and the excitement a child feels in the ordinary and mundanity of everyday life, an uplifting comment on the effervescence of youth. Midi also designed the cover with a little help from Uncle Kwes. Perhaps the youngest ever designer in Warp’s near three decade history! Each track on the EP builds upon sounds including the gentle tick tock on Blox/Connor to the flourishing extensive synthlines and crescendos on Midori which call to mind the fragility of Arthur Russell’s World of Echo.

12” EP - Housed in 3mm outer sleeve with paper inners and download card insert.

Songs for Midi EP

Music GB