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‘Pieces’ is the new single by East London-based soul singer Yazmin Lacey, released 7th September on Own Your Own Records under exclusive licence to Believe.
Her first release in two years, ‘Pieces’ was produced by Dave Okumu (Jessie Ware, Arlo Parks, Ibeyi) and written by Yazmin after a breakup and moving out of the house they both shared. Trying to maintain some normality, she went ahead with a scheduled piano lesson the next day with her keys player Sarah Tandy. After Sarah messed around with some chords, Yazmin had an overwhelming feeling to write ‘Pieces’ as an outlet to say everything that she couldn’t say face to face, Yazmin explains “Pieces is an open goodbye letter”. The keys were joined by horns recorded by James Mollison, Ritche Seivwright and Sheila Maurice-Gray. Recording the track became a sense of healing, “It’s turning heartbreak into hope, a thank you to a love that was”, says Yazmin.
credits
released September 7, 2022
Writers: Yazmin Lacey, Dave Okumu, Sarah Tandy
Keys: Sarah Tandy
Bass, Keyboards, Sythesisers, Programming: Dave Okumu
Synthesiser: Aviram Barath
Drums: Dan See
Saxophone: James Mollison
Trumpet: Sheila Maurice-Grey
Trombone: Ritchie Seivwright
Produced by Dave Okumu
Co-production and arrangement: Sarah Tandy
Mixed by Dan Parry
Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell