Rapper k-os is back with a new single WiLD4TheNight, released through Dine Alone Records, a track that was inspired by his native Trinidad roots.
The single is in anticipation of his sixth studio album, “Can’t Fly Without Gravity,” due out in 2015, on Dine Alone Records. For WiLD4TheNight, k-os returned to Trinidad, the south Caribbean island nation from which his family hails and where the young musician lived for three formative years. “My Canadian accent set me apart from kids there – they used to say ‘Yankee go home’ and stuff like that. I didn’t fit in, but going back opened up a well of passion,” he said in a recent press release.
The new single will be available worldwide on July 29th.
A recent signing to the growing Dine Alone Records family, president Joel Carriere said that he is looking forward to k-os’ addition. “I am rather stoked to be welcoming my bud k-os to the global roster at Dine Alone Records. We have been shooting the breeze for years, so it’s about time we made it official,” said Carriere in the same release. “k-os has been a leader in whatever genre he decides he wants to be in, just as Dine Alone has had great success with multiple genres. Our enthusiasm for pushing boundaries in a do it yourself culture is what brought us together. His vision is prolific and his music stands the test of time. Dine Alone is humbled to have such a talent like k-os working with us on a global level. “
Continuously evolving with each record, the artist, who was born Kheaven Brereton, has never shied away from exploring new and different musical projects, applying the same collagist approach with a different set of materials on each record. For a restlessly experimental career artist, there are no such things as mere milestones. Beyond reinforcing the aesthetic connections between Trinidad’s proud calypso history and contemporary hip-hop, “WiLD4TheNight” also inspired k-os to more openly celebrate his indigenous heritage.
“This new single, which is raw, could only be this way because I feel new. And to feel new to a style sometimes you have to step away from it.” said k-os. “’Can’t Fly Without Gravity’ is the sound of somebody who’s consciously forgotten about pop music to understand it again. We all need to forget something that we like so that we can like it again.”
k-os has upcoming shows at Toronto’s Festival of Beer and Wolfe Island Music Festival.
Photo: David Moo
