Jordan Mackampa - Joël Francis

"A songwriter of potent force, his carefully etched lyricism is matched against that eloquent voice, so honeyed and so packed with emotion.”

Textured, open, and studious Jordan Mackampa is immersive and exuberant finally at a place of comfortability in himself and his output as a singer and songwriter. Jordan’s aptitude for musical expression was inherited from his mother’s ear. Not a musician herself, she would often fill the rooms of Jordan’s London-based childhood home with a diet of anyone from Curtis Mayfield to Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye, nourishing the ears of an inquisitive, infant Mackampa.

Jordan Mackampa utilised a self-proclaimed ethos that still remains present in his contemporary musical approach. “I want to create music that adds to what’s missing in the musical landscape”. After years of submerging himself in informal instrumental production, Jordan trusts his ear abundantly. It was around his latter-teen years that he decided to pursue music on his own terms, studying Popular Music Performance at Northampton.

With his aptly titled new album, WelcomeHome,Kid!, Jordan Mackampa intimately invites his emerging and existing fans to get acquainted with a 29-year-old deconstructed and at their most intimate on his sophomore album. Welcome Home, Kid! is quick to lean into Jordan’s second coming as an artist and is instantly bold in its canvassing of the new artist. After the context of where Jordan has come from and why he contained a few emotional scars that have now been attended to, Jordan wholly debuts who he is now as the dawn of his 30s approaches.

Beyond the contemporary Jordan Mackampa are nods towards who he’s becoming, not just as a person, but a force in the live arena. Ready to sometimes embrace his instrumentals again; this time accompanied by fuller bands and the assistance of the MckNasty’s of the world, Jordan also manifests a new character.

JOËL FRANCIS

Joël Francis, fresh artist on the block, here to shake up the game. The 24 year old artist mixes the transcendent gospel feeling with the soft loving vibrations of rnb.

To be part of something bigger, greater is something she was longing for for as long as she can remember. And that’s what RNB and gospel represent for her.

The feeling of coming home but at the same time belonging somewhere that even transcends yourself. Music to console your soul, as she calls her love letters from the heart sung by her woozy yet soft voice over a jazzy sometimes cheerful pop- musical arrangement.