{"product_id":"welcome-home-6","title":"Welcome Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten and recorded in a series of bedroom studios in England and France,\nLondon-based Gareth Donkin’s extraordinary debut, \u003ci\u003eWelcome Home\u003c\/i\u003e,\nshowcases the 23-year-old’s stunning mix of instrumental virtuosity and\nemotional intuition, blending highly sophisticated melodic and harmonic\ncraftsmanship with deeply moving lyrical explorations of longing, desire,\nand determination. The songs here draw on soul, funk, pop, yacht rock,\nhip-hop, jazz, and even bossa nova, hinting at times to everything from\nMichael Jackson and Bill Evans to George Benson and Jamiroquai, and\nDonkin’s performances are nothing short of mesmerizing, layering up\ninstrument after instrument in the best one-man-band tradition of Prince\nor Stevie Wonder. The result is a moving work that’s equal parts brain and\nbrawn, a masterful coming-of-age self-portrait from a young artist\ndiscovering himself—and his sound—one song at a time.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn with perfect pitch, Donkin was already fanatically obsessed with both\njazz piano and drums before he turned twelve. In high school, he began\nDJing and teaching himself to record and sample, and by the time he\nheaded to the Leeds College of Music to pursue a degree in production, he\nwas already writing and recording his own material at home. His first\nsingle, “Catharsis,” would go on to rack up more than a million streams on\nSpotify, and a series of subsequent tracks would find similarly organic\nsuccess and help land him a deal with the burgeoning drink sum wtr label.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Drink Sum Wtr","offers":[{"title":"Green LP","offer_id":50506930618699,"sku":"2026804","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50506931274059,"sku":"2034061","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/default_3b786c0e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727833460","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/welcome-home-6","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}