{"product_id":"head-above-water-5","title":"Head Above Water","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Head Above Water' is another example of the rich patchwork of\ninfluences at the heart of Nectar's writing in full bloom.Having been\nraised in \"a working class area in Milton-Keynes\", Nectar grew up around\nso many talented people from different cultural backgrounds, but she\nnoticed that what helped kids stay on the right track was \"keeping them\noccupied with creative spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's so sad that only financially stable families are able to provide creative spaces\nfor their kids. I think it should be for everyone. Everyone is creative, and they\nshould be provided the means to explore that.\" Nectar's Ghanaian amateur\nsaxophone-player father would help create that space for her and fill the house\nwith jazz and Highlife music, while her English mother worked as an artist and\nfashion pattern cutter; exposed to a creative way of life and a wide variety of\nsounds, both mainstream and niche, it was able to open Nectar's ears to a world\nof sonic possibility.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNectar credits the early 2010's wave of London singers (Winehouse, Duffy) for\nmaking her want to move to the capital, but it was the people she met when she\narrived that truly steered Nectar towards the warm, jazz-infused sound that she\ninhabits today.. \"I grew up with Erykah Badu and D'Angelo, but uni was when I\ndived really deep into it; listening to their albums, studying it,\" she says. \"I had\nfriends who loved the same music so we made bands who would cover that\nmusic and then write our own stuff inspired by it, and from there it developed.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving released a few songs independently over the past couple of years, her\ndebut EP Nothing To Lose merged her improvisational ethos of the jam sessions\nthat she cut her teeth playing in, with the more streamlined pop noise of co-\nwriters and producers Bad Sounds (Arlo Parks, Rose Gray) and Tobie Tripp (Tom\nMisch, Dave).\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Communion","offers":[{"title":"LP - Yellow","offer_id":50398627725643,"sku":"2222462","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3dabd21b-fa75-4420-a999-c2f093327702_4f3de7e1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726497431","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/head-above-water-5","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}