Kae Sun is a Toronto-based, Ghana-born songwriter. He's been making some small waves back in his home country, but it's about time everyone heard about him. He's got a soulful, slightly gravelly voice that shines through the songs, which are sensitively written stories. The fact that it's all acoustic gives the songs an authenticity; they're enormously easy to relate to. His new album, Outside The Barcode , is out and you can pick it up from his website . For [...]
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It's been a shameful year and a half since I last posted about Kae Sun , but I've been inspired since he released a live video of my favorite track off of his EP Outside the Barcode . "Weh Weh" is done with his usual simplistic acoustic style, and it just makes me smile.
This is something you may already be aware of, but Ghana is a long way from Canada, not only in distance, but in many other immeasurable ways as well. After living in Canada for nine years, Toronto's Kae Sun returned to the country of his birth and poured the emotion of that visit into songwriting as he toured the country. Once he returned to Canada, Kae headed to the quiet of an Ontario farmhouse with his guitar to record the songs created during his voyage home. The result is Outside The Barcode [...]
Hip hop/R&B artist Kae Sun impresses with his unique, engaging debut album.
Though Kae Sun has already put out his debut album in Canada, the soulful hip-hopper is preparing for the US release of Lion on a Leash , which will arrive here in the states on November 9. The track list for the record is after the jump, along with his upcoming tour dates. However, don't expect any touring outside of Canada just yet... Lion On A Leash track list: 1. How Long 2. Too Young, Too Soon [...]
From the first moment I heard this song by Kae Sun , I was hooked. Today the accompanying video arrived in my inbox, it's simple and sweet, and serves as the perfect side to this addictive song. His album Lion on a Leash is out now, so grab it while you can!
So I hope you've realized by now that I'm just going to unload all of the excellent tracks I've received via email lately onto you one by one. This one comes from Ghanaian born Kae Sun in anticipation of a forthcoming video for this track. This song is unassuming, with a simple piano driven beat, he is ever swerving between singing and rapping, yet it is tightly bound and every moment seems considered. It's just a lovely song that could slip past your radar, but is definitely worth giving a second glance. [...]
Toronto - It'd be lazy and mildly racist to compare artist Kae Sun to K'naan just because they are both are based in Toronto with strong ties to Africa, make music with strong political overtones and have a similar worldly sounding music. But I am lazy and mildy racist, so perhaps it suits this post just fine. Born and raised in Ghana, Kae Sun was exposed to all kinds of cool African music that you and I only wish to see in movies made by Leonardo DiCaprio. Combining this learning experience with the hip hop he [...]
Kae Sun can count himself amongst the larger-than-I-would-like collective of folks that I meant to cover late last year but didn't get to for one reason or another. I've said that most of the records in that stack were Canadian hip hop, but although Kae Sun's earlier material might've been more hip hop-orientated (and featured him rapping much more), his recently released full-length debut, Lion On A Leash , finds him favouring a more traditional singing style. A number of those songs have a real reggae feel, and so it's no surprise that Kae would try [...]
Here's how it works: become a brand-name niche-blogger, and people send you stuff. Most of it is way off topic; some of it is decent, but not ready for prime time. A bunch more has saturated the blogmarket so much already, there's little point in posting it again. And a few songs just don't tickle the fancy - after all, if every song worked for every blogger, you'd never know who to trust. But there's wheat in the chaff, if you're willing to listen. And in the interest of serving [...]
I'm fairly certain everyone, or almost everyone, goes through a phase in their adolescence or early adulthood where they hear Legend , buy a poster of Bob Marley and throw it up on their wall. Since that point, I have subscribed to the Barney Stinson school of reggae, " Does she know that one song that goes: Umm-Umm-Chalka Umm-Umm-Chalka? What's that song called? Oh right, its called every reggae song ". Of course I'm not that crass, but I couldn't name another reggae artist in the history of the genre... Peter Tosh? Do Sean [...]
Kae Sun 's new single "Lion On A Leash" is available via iTunes .
Filed under: MP3 , Exclusive , Northern Exposure , Canada Perhaps the mainstream breakthroughs of artists like Drake and Anjulie will finally lay waste to the myth that the Canadian music scene doesn't have its own take on the urban sound. Those looking for new names in hip-hop should perk up their ears in the direction of rising Toronto rapper/producer Miles Jones , who offers up a mix of R&B, electro, reggae and pop influences on his polished sophomore album, 'Runaway Jones'. [...]
Life and art are connected to each other in a way that certain artists try to depict in their music or visual art. Marvin Gaye did it with his concept album "Whats going on" in 1971, talking about injustice, hatred and suffering in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Curtis Mayfield are other musicians that followed suite in their own right. Fast forward to 2008, I caught up with Kae Sun a Ghanaian born singer, songwriter, poet and rapper based in Hamilton/Toronto,Canada, currently working on his full length LP entitled [...]
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