{"id":41179,"date":"2019-11-25T16:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/obongjayar-announces-new-ep-which-way-is-forward\/"},"modified":"2021-10-21T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T10:54:10","slug":"obongjayar-announces-new-ep-which-way-is-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/obongjayar-announces-new-ep-which-way-is-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Obongjayar announces new EP, Which Way is Forward?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33207 pam-featured-content\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/f3437160-obongjayar-still-sun-3.jpg\" alt=\"Obongjayar - Still Sun\" width=\"1000\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/f3437160-obongjayar-still-sun-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/f3437160-obongjayar-still-sun-3-759x480.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/f3437160-obongjayar-still-sun-3-661x418.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/f3437160-obongjayar-still-sun-3-465x294.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/f3437160-obongjayar-still-sun-3-375x237.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Before unveiling his new EP scheduled&nbsp;on February 7th, Obongjayar&nbsp;releases his sumptuous new single \u201cStill Sun\u201d.<\/h4>\n<p>With his unique mix of soul, downtempo hip-hop and ambient music, the Nigerian-born London-based&nbsp;singer Obongjayar is definitely an artists to watch closely in 2020. The artist has most<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&nbsp;notably&nbsp;worked&nbsp;alongside artists like <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/kamasi-washington\/\">Kamasi Washington<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-summers-20-best-music-videos\/\">Giggs<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/sampha\/\">Sampha<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/ibeyi\/\">Ibeyi<\/a><\/span> and&nbsp;appeared on <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/9-albums-october-4\/\">Danny Brown<\/a>\u2019<\/span>s critically acclaimed uknowhatimsayin\u00bf. A few days ago,&nbsp;Steven Umoh aka Obongjayar just&nbsp;unleashed a brand new single as a preamble to his upcoming EP&nbsp;<em>Which Way Is Forward?.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ba2NdGIXcu8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The track radiates warmth, with vocals that bend, twist and snap amid a momentous melody, continuing Obongjayar\u2019s expressive style\u2014a fine mix of spirituality and identity.&nbsp;Speaking about the EP, he says: <\/span><i>&#8220;Which Way Is Forward?\u201d is a project about love, family, self-empowerment and self-belief. It\u2019s a mirror that allows you to look inward, to understand trauma, to heal.&nbsp;<\/i><i>It\u2019s a project about mustering the strength &#8211;&nbsp; the strength to get up and clean house.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Find \u201cStill Sun\u201d d\u2019Obongjayar&nbsp;in our&nbsp;Noir Wave playlist available on&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/5Au5WzqKtuYMaqK1zT88Qv?si=5Jq6xn6nTMWY9OgRmcIF-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotify<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.deezer.com\/playlist\/1878285902?utm_source=deezer&amp;utm_content=playlist-1878285902&amp;utm_term=924740661_1574678795&amp;utm_medium=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deezer<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Which Way Is Forward? <\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out on February 7th via September Recordings<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before unveiling his new EP scheduled&nbsp;on February 7th, Obongjayar&nbsp;releases his sumptuous new single \u201cStill Sun\u201d. With his unique mix of soul, downtempo hip-hop and ambient music, the Nigerian-born London-based&nbsp;singer Obongjayar is definitely an artists to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":33207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[40918],"location":[8230],"yst_prominent_words":[8403,9181,8407,8933,23992,9185,25140,8400,8543],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41179"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41179"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}