Name: What Kinda Music
Brand: Tom Misch

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2020-04-24

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2020-05-08

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Tom Misch

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Caroline

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London-based producer/singer/songwriter Tom Misch blends hip-hop-inspired beats with smoothly soulful vocals and guitar. Growing up in a creative household, he learned to play violin at a young age and discovered his singing talent as a child. Inspired by J Dilla, Misch started making his own beats and gained recognition when up-and-coming rappers sampled his work. Collaborating with local singer/songwriter Carmody, he released the Out to Sea EP in 2014. His debut single "Memory" arrived in 2014, followed by Beat Tape 2 in 2015. Misch's music combines laid-back R&B-pop elements showcased on his EP Reverie and debut album Geography.

Caroline Records is a renowned music label that has had an interesting history. Originally established as a European offshoot of Virgin in the 1970s, it was later revived in the 1980s as a distributor and pseudo-indie label under Virgin/EMI. In 2013, Universal Music brought back the brand through Capitol Music Group. Caroline Records serves as a label for various releases bearing the *Caroline* or *Caroline Records* brands, as well as fulfilling distributor and other company roles.

The catalog number formats used by Caroline have varied over time, with prefixes like *CAROL* and *CAR*. It is important to use these numbers exactly as they appear on the release to avoid any confusion. In recent years, Caroline also adopted the standard EMI numbering system alongside their CAROL-prefix numbers.

Similar to Island Records, Caroline has been inconsistent about incorporating the word "Records" into their logos and contact information throughout their history. However, on Discogs it is considered correct to always refer to them as *Caroline Records*, even if "Records" is not present. The oldest logo of Caroline was reintroduced for several new releases in the mid-2010s. While it may be more appropriate to omit "Records" from their name now, there are too many releases associated with this label to make such edits at this point.

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“Lockdown was a very strange time, but it meant that I spent a lot of time just sitting with my guitar and jamming, and I created these sessions. It was a dream to work on a cover of Parabens with one of my idols Marcos Valle. The response to the sessions was crazy and so I’m excited to make them available on streaming services!”Cast your mind (if you dare) back to last summer – when the world went into lockdown and there was a new world order for us all to adjust to. While a great percentage of us went about mastering sourdough or gingerly attempting a new language on Duolingo, Tom Misch – fresh off the release of the Ivor Novello nominated collaborative album “What Kinda Music” with Yussef Dayes which earnt glowing notices in the press and a number 4 spot in the UK album charts – decided instead to do what he does best – to make dreamy, languid music; just him, a guitar, and his iPhone in his garden.The resultant effect is beautiful and swoonsome, with a sense of easy intimacy hanging over the tracks, which were all (with the exception of “Missing You”) recorded and released on his YouTube channel. Look no further, for instance, than the brilliant collaboration with Brazilian Jazz and Bossa Nova legend Marco Valle on “Parabéns”, for evidence of Misch’s warm and engaging way with a song, even when done remotely. It is a beguiling atmosphere only heightened by the fact that Misch even commissioned an artist he loves, Oliver Macdonald Oulds, to create a hand painted version of one of the scenes from the sessions ('Cranes in the Sky') for the album artwork.Indeed, it is the musical equivalent of a gorgeously languorous stroll under endless blue skies, or laying in the tall grass in the hot sun, something at once gentle yet heady, intoxicating and magical, casting its warm spell over the course of 8 tracks in a stealthy and delicious way. Truly one of the (very) few bright spots to emerge from the summer of 2020, and one to treasure as well.

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