Jasën Blu goes the route of legends on new single, Blufunk

Singer, songwriter, composer and record producer Jasën Blu, no doubt has a way of holding his core fan base and first-time listeners respectively, spell bound with his masterful legends of Soul and Rhythm and Blues (R&B) recordings and on stage. This is readily evident on his solidly building catalog and recent live performances.

If you have ever been mesmerised by past moments of pure magic on his records cum beats Already, Brown Shuga, Road 2 Soulwave EP, Chill and most recently, Summertime or you just happen to be witnessing his sheer ingenuity as a music artiste, he just took it up a whole new level on this new retro-pop inspired single, BluFunk, the fourth official single off his incoming full-length debut album Soulwave.

Brilliant fusion of cross genre elements on a recording is already a tricky thing to achieve even for the most seasoned songwriters, record producers and music directors, but nothing prepares for the wizardry single-handedly orchestrated on BluFunk by the Akure-born and Lagos-resident artiste, who lets all the magic loose on the record based solely on a slightly high-tempo 70s/80s Pop/Funk drum and bass.

Written, produced and engineered as usual by himself for his SoundQraft LLC production outfit, the new offering, a subtly glossy piano chord snatches and sexy muted bass guitar licks, is a nice little synthesizer signature, topped with a short, neat flurry trumpets response on the hook that even Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis might have been proud of.

To deliver this hit, Jasën Blu mounted an already super-impressive production work with an unprecedented yet pleasantly familiar trap cadence; clever but simply structured lyrics flawlessly served in Warri Pidgin, Yoruba and English, complemented it with soft and soothing Kool & The Gang inspired background vocals flavoured with his usual lush bass backing vocal layers.

With BluFunk, the production impresario’s steady uprising continues strongly on the back of immediate previous standalone buzz single, Otojometa, and album singles, Chill and Summertime, which signifies a sonically varied yet cohesive range of sounds, lthemes and topical directions on the impending album Soulwave which arrival is due in the first quarter of 2024.