Mar­gate-based elec­tron­ic artist and pro­duc­er, Jaime Rosso has announced his debut four-track EP Away – due for release on Novem­ber 7th via Domino. 

He has just released the sec­ond num­ber Frames as a sin­gle. The track radi­ates a breezy, coastal ener­gy, no doubt influ­enced by his Mar­gate back­ground. It’s a soul­ful piece, dri­ven by slinky bass notes that send a euphor­ic jolt through your sys­tem. Whether you want to chill out or move onto the dance­floor, Frames makes space for both. Intri­cate­ly lay­ered drum beats weave around Jaime’s soft vocals, synth sounds like wheel­ing gulls, while the lyrics reflect his first expe­ri­ences of Lon­don nightlife as an out­sider, that cap­ture the won­der of being immersed in a new world. 

Mov­ing from rur­al Kent to south Lon­don, Away explores the ten­sion between move­ment and still­ness, com­mu­ni­ty and soli­tude, urban inten­si­ty and coastal calm. It was record­ed across both loca­tions, using his char­ac­ter­ful hard­ware syn­the­sis­ers and sam­ple-heavy approach as a way of pro­cess­ing his sur­round­ings. It’s a sim­i­lar ten­sion as explored by indie folk artist Lael Neale, between home on the farm in Vir­ginia and the anonymi­ty of her new life in Los Angeles. 

Says Jaime about the EP: “When you’re leav­ing some­thing behind – whether it’s a city, a rela­tion­ship, or a chap­ter of life – you car­ry both the rush of pos­si­bil­i­ty and the melan­choly of loss.That con­trast is at the heart of this EP. I was search­ing for the son­ic meet­ing point between two homes; what they sound­ed like, felt like, and sym­bol­ised to me.”

He says about his ini­tial club­land expe­ri­ences: “as a new­com­er to the envi­ron­ment, I felt sep­a­rate, self-aware. I was in awe of the peo­ple in the scene who seemed to know the rules inside and out, the char­ac­ters effort­less­ly com­mand­ing the atten­tion of the room. Cast­ing a spell on the dance­floor, mov­ing under the strobes like the club was built espe­cial­ly for them. Add the haze-filled atmos­pher­ics of a mid­sum­mer night out, and that image became a mem­o­rable one for me. I wrote ‘Frames’ whilst that vision was still spin­ning around my head.”

Live dates
14th Novem­ber – Bis! Bis! Bis! @ Mar­gate Arts Club, Mar­gate
22nd Novem­ber – One Glove IRL (Mac­ca, NTS) + Social Records Soci­ety @ Cor­si­ca Stu­dios, Lon­don
Tick­ets for Lon­don on sale now from here.

EP Away by Jaime Ross pre-order as a lim­it­ed edi­tion 12” and dig­i­tal­ly. Pre-order: Dom Mart | Dig­i­tal.