Jordan Rakei

A Safe Place To Be Wild, the seventh album from Jordan Rakei, arrives after more than a decade of quietly reshaping the contours of soul, jazz and alternative R&B. His most instinctive and fearless work to date, it is an intimate, surreal and emotionally direct record about self-acceptance, vulnerability and creative freedom. Stripping everything back to raw feeling, Rakei lets go of expectation and steps into a more unguarded space, embracing the stranger, freer parts of himself with a sense of play, honesty and instinct. At its heart, A Safe Place To Be Wild is a study of the unobserved self: an artist confronting the fear of exposure, dissolving it in real time, and discovering the quiet power of becoming fully, unapologetically whole. After making waves in the soul, jazz & electronic scene upon his arrival in London in 2015, Rakei self-released his debut ‘Cloak’, before signing to influential indie label Ninja Tune. He has recorded live sessions for COLORS, NPR’s Tiny Desk & BBC 6 Music (at the iconic Maida Vale Studios), sold out Brixton Academy and two night at London's Royal Albert Hall, amassed over 1 billion streams. Jordan Rakei's last album, 'The Loop', was nominated for 'Best Album' at the Ivor Novello Awards, and he was honoured as the inaugural ‘Artist In Residence’ at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios.