Velvet Negroni, the creative alter-ego of Minneapolis’ Jeremy Nutzman, creates raw, experimental R & B centred on the level of intimacy his voice evokes hybridising classic soul and West Indian elements. Today, he drops a live video of the brand new song ‘WINE GREEN’ off his debut album NEON BROWN out via 4AD / Rhythmethod August 30.
In the last year, his music was sampled by Kanye West and Kid Cudi on ‘Feel The Love (ft. Pusha T)‘, graced Pitchfork playlists and BBC Radio 1 airplay, and he joined musical mentor Bon Iver on tour. On NEON BROWN, Velvet Negroni is a griot relaying the life and times of his own island of one as he rhymes in double time, or hiccups and la-las through a break, or croons from a room down the hall, as it unfolds into another story of lost love, or another joke about lost drugs, as it tries to make sense of a life spent in the (sometimes harrowing) pursuit of communion.
Longtime collaborators Psymun (Future, Young Thug, Juice WRLD, The Weeknd) and Elliott Kozel (Tickle Torture) produced the album in Minneapolis.
