Kae Sun – The Moment (unplugged in Montreal)

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PAM teams up with Moonshine crew in an intimate video of songwriter and producer Kae Sun who’s performing “The Moment”, a song from his new album Whoever Comes Knocking coming out on March 2.

Speaking on his approaches of his new album Kae Sun said: “There are things I needed to express sonically and lyrically and I just let it out without the songs being overly determined. I mean it’s very much an evolution of my sound but you can probably hear it distinctively as MY sound. I embrace all my influences and then filter them through a particular set of sonic moods. Genre categories won’t really work as a description. I can say that it sits in this emotional range that I’ve been calling “never-ending dawn”. People keep telling me it’s melancholic but it’s also somewhat uplifting and I say well that’s how I feel almost every day, it’s very Gemini. It’s saturnine but it’s still feels really calming. It is very African. I think its pop and Afro in an abstract way. It requires close listening and I think we’ve achieved something very layered and potent with it.”

Kae Sun is the musical project of Kwaku Darko-Mensah Jnr, a Ghanian-Canadian singer with influences steeped in afrobeat, contemporary R&B, and indie folk. Kae’s break out came in 2013 with the release of his critically-acclaimed sophomore album Afriyie. It showcased his peerless, delicate vocal delivery atop rich rhythmic foundations and memorable melodies that take influence from different decades and a world of styles, shaping a new breed of African alternative pop music. From 2014 to 2016 Kae Sun co-conceptualized the acclaimed short movie and multimedia installation “Ocean’s Apart” which has been making rounds in the contemporary art circuit since it’s opening in 2015.