London multi-instrumentalist Jordan Rakei makes SF debut in September
Jordan Rakei is a jack-of-all-trades, but he's widely recognized as a master of a sun-flecked brand of soul that has been emerging from across the pond: Think Britain's Tom Misch, Jamie Woon, NAO; Paris' FKJ, and Australia's Sex on Toast. Rakei's multitude of musical abilities — he songwrites, sings and plays nearly every instrument on his records — first caught the eyes and ears of his fans with his 2013 six-track EP, Franklin's Room. Songs such as "My Time" and "Selfish" inflected hints of jazz and reggae with his bright, lazy-Sunday soul, whereas his 2016 full-length record, Cloak, begins to [...]