{"id":81609,"date":"2021-06-07T12:39:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=81609"},"modified":"2021-06-08T09:12:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T07:12:56","slug":"pote-tenuous-tale-of-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pote-tenuous-tale-of-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot\u00e9 releases second LP A Tenuous Tale of Her"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

St Lucian born, London grown and Paris-based producer and songwriter Pot\u00e9 has followed up his 2018 debut Spiral my love <\/em>with a new extended player A Tenuous Tale of Her. <\/em>The aim, says the beatmaker-lyricist, was \u201cto write something that can live on stage without you present.<\/em>\u201d Sonically the eleven songs that complete A Tenuous Tale of Her <\/em>released on the 4th June are in step with the borderless creative salon that is Noirwave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding his sound via DIY releases for Scratch Perverts imprint Black Gold, Pot\u00e9\u2019s  noughties era productions were club-focussed odes to the dancefloor with shades of emotion at the edges. \u201cI was entering a rediscovery of my culture, and my background,<\/em>\u201d he says, explaining, \u201cI wanted to draw on that percussion of the Caribbean, and try to unite that with the reason I started writing music: as a valve for my emotions.<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discovering Buraka Som Sistema and connecting with Branko (one fifth of the recently reformed Lisbon based collective) he signed to the Lisbon based label Enchufada<\/a> in 2015 and the Afropean sounds of kuduro and zouk bass became part of Pot\u00e9\u2019s palette. Then in 2019 he hopped on board Damon Albarn\u2019s pan-African Africa Express for the intensive songwriting residency that became Egoli<\/em> – the collective and label\u2019s last album on which he joined forces with fellow Londoner, Ghetts, on the track \u201cTwirl\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albarn returns the favour on A Tenuous Tale of Her<\/em> which begins with \u201cUnder\u201d a jittery two-step of syncopated handclaps and synths which provide a backdrop to Pot\u00e9\u2019s vocal. Like Albarn who takes the lead on \u201cYoung Lies\u201d there is something vulnerable about Pot\u00e9\u2019s delivery with its delicious weariness. But A Tenuous Tale of Her <\/em>traverses more emotions than just ennui.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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