Sweden’s Jarami Share Divine New Cut ‘Aurora’

The Schoolboy Q-approved R&B natives surge ahead...

Following the production of Frank Ocean’s drip-fed singles ‘Biking’, ‘Lens’ and ‘Chanel’, Swedish team Jarami have stepped away from collaboration to explore the lush, interior tropics of their own instrumental world with ‘Aurora’.

Inspired by their civic ties to natural beauty, the first excerpt from upcoming EP ‘Sketches’ opens tentatively with sugarcane wind before blowing through a neo-soul mood-board that speaks as much to French cinema soundtrack as it does 1976 soul.

The Schoolboy Q-approved R&B natives have slowly been establishing themselves as purveyors of groove with remixes of tracks from the likes of AlunaGeorge, Wafia and Rihanna, but with ‘Aurora’ Jarami flex a completely different muscle as they offer deep, reductionist focus.

The four-minute lake-side lounge avoids repetition – surfing its own never-ending wave of brightness before performing sonic gymnastics, as the Scandinavian duo’s first length of what is likely to be a pool of blissed, understated gold eventually twists its own wrist.

Warping and slowing like the end of season, ‘Aurora’ still manages to unflinchingly hold onto its positivity through the distortion held at the end of the track, as if to suggest that, although ending, summer will come again.

Words: James Musker

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