Jalen Ngonda - Come Around and Love Me

Released 8th September 2023

Artists like Jalen Ngonda come around once in a lifetime, so it is our privilege and distinct pleasure to announce therelease of his debut album Come Around and Love Me.

Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Jalen perform live knows that he is one of the most captivatingperformers on today's soul scene. His voice, equal parts raw feeling and elegance, exudes confidence andcharmdisarming packed rooms of rowdy concert goers, leaving them silent as they hold fast to every syllable sung.

Plans for the album were struck just months before the COVID 19 pandemic shut the world down. Notwithstanding,Jalen eventually made it to Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn, NY where he began writing and recording with the help ofproducer/arrangers Mike Buckley and Vincent Chiarito (both members of Charles Bradley's Extraordinaires) and acrack team of a-list musicians from the Daptone family. The team skillfully blends heavy ar