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PREMIERE: Jelani - "Twenty/Three"

The first track from British artist Jelani sits somewhere between Ben Khan and the funky solos on Frank Ocean's "Channel Orange".

Jelani has been playing music for most of his life. He's spent the last few years figuring out his music, cut-and-pasting soundscapes together, before finalising his patchwork quilt of sound on debut release, "Twenty//Three".

Sitting somewhere between the funky John Mayer solos on Channel Orange, the R&B vein of Ben Khan and Jai Paul, and the sort of low-key comedown British production crafted by the likes of Sampha and SBTRKT, "Twenty//Three" is a release that gives promise to an exciting future for Jelani.