Bonobo shares new Jordan Rakei collaboration "Shadows"

"Shadows" is the fourth track to be lifted from Bonobo's Fragments album after last month's O'Flynn collaboration "Otomo", "Tides" featuring Jamila Woods and "Rosewood".

On the song and working with Jordan Rakei, Bonobo, real name Simon Green, said, ""Shadows" was one of the first pieces in place for the new record and working with Jordan was such a joy. We’d spent plenty of time together previously. He’s toured with us and I’m a huge fans of his. He was an easy choice as a collaborator. The instrumental existed as a slow evolving throwback Detroit thing. I had people like Theo Parish and Moodyman in mind when I was making it. It’s been one of my favourites from the new album since day one."

"I've been a huge fan of Bonobo for such a long time and to now share a piece of music with him is super special," Rakei added. "We actually worked on this tune remotely in the beginning of Lockdown 2020. Simon sent me the track and I actually wrote about three different verses and three different choruses. When you work remotely it's really difficult to gauge whether or not an idea is suitable to their vision, so I wanted to make sure I was sending more than enough haha. And he chose his favourite verse and favourite chorus and I went and recorded it in my London studio."

Fragments will follow Bonobo's 2017 album Migration, and was created, recorded and mixed by Green over the past two years.

The record will feature new collaborations with Joji, Kadhja Bonet and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.