Focus Music Notes. "Out of the Blues". Popular music through the decades

Ray Blk one of the realest, most challenging and important voices in music, dropped her brand new single “GAMES”, featuring hip hop legend Giggs, on March 4th through Island Records. The hard-hitting track and video, directed by Nathan James Tettey, long-time collaborator with Dave, Headie One, Stormzy, Burna Boy and Fredo, is the next single from Ray’s forthcoming and hugely anticipated debut album which will be released in the summer. The essence of the title ‘games’ are being played during four after parties spanning four different eras; the 80’s, 90s, 00s up to the present and looks at the age-old issue of complicated relationships and the games men and women play. Speaking about the video concept Ray says “Nathan and I wanted to highlight that as we transcend through time, the essence of relationships still stay the same, whilst also creating a nostalgic and stylistic music video.” Ray has spent lockdown writing and recording her long-awaited debut album which promises to be one o...

Miraa May, songwriter, performer, artist and sheer force of nature follows her critically acclaimed Dark EP, co-write on Jorja Smith’s Top 10 hit “Be Honest” and recent paean to her new-born son, “Baby”, with her new Island single “Say Yeah”. Featuring Haile, the latest episode of Miraa’s YouTube mini-series ‘Miraa & Friends’ goes behind the scenes of the making of the track. An official video for ’Say Yeah’ will drop in a couple of weeks. “Say Yeah’ is the third new song Miraa has released in 2020, following “Woman Like Me” & ‘Baby’ and is the start of a new chapter as she embarks on the journey of motherhood.   Miraa recently featured in a new documentary created by The Face magazine called ‘Voices of Jamaica’ which followed 15 artists on a week-long writing retreat put together by UK producer Cadenza. The film features Jorja Smith, Miraa May, Amine, Proteje and legendary producers Dre Skull, Guilty Beatz, & P2J amongst others.   Miraa has also been busy ...