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Cat-No:ALBFLP023
Release-Date:16.05.2025
Genre:Soul/Funk
Configuration:2LP
Barcode:5060202599608
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Release-Date:16.05.2025
Genre:Soul/Funk
Configuration:2LP
Barcode:5060202599608
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Arjuna Oakes - So I Don't Forget (Intro)
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Arjuna Oakes - Nothing's Gonna Fill You Up
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Arjuna Oakes - No Joke
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Arjuna Oakes - Catch Me
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Arjuna Oakes - Pocketful Of Paranoia
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Arjuna Oakes - Lay Low
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Arjuna Oakes - Before It's All Over
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Arjuna Oakes - The Love That I Feel
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Arjuna Oakes - Motel
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Arjuna Oakes - Sell My Memories (Interlude)
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Arjuna Oakes - Get Me Some Grief
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Arjuna Oakes - I'm Alive
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Arjuna Oakes - Caught (Catch Me Reprise)
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Arjuna Oakes - Won't Let This World Break My Heart
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Arjuna Oakes - No One
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Arjuna Oakes - Mallet Groove
DJ Support: Jamie Cullum (BBC Radio 2), Huey Morgan (BBC Radio 6), Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 6), Deb Grant (New Music Fix, BBC Radio 6)

On debut album ‘While I'm Distracted’, London-based New Zealander Arjuna Oakes draws inspiration from contemporary soul and jazz, touches of global folk, electronica, modern classical, and post-rock, with dynamic arrangements and production. ‘While I'm Distracted’ is an album about fighting for your innocence and right to be a vulnerable and honest human. Arjuna’s songwriting explores themes of identity, depression, existentialism, social media, loss of innocence, and finding hope for the future through artistic expression.

'I'm obsessed with albums,' says Arjuna. 'I've made seven EPs, but needed time to tackle a full length record. I was using the EPs to learn the craft of how to make a great album, much like a director will make short films before they make a feature. I wanted to take the listener on a journey and spark their imagination. Hopefully the album expresses complex emotions, rather than having an intellectual concept. I'd rather ask questions than answer them'.

Across the album, Arjuna performs vocals, piano, keyboards, synths, production, and wrote the string arrangements. He’s joined by Harrison Scholes on bass, Jo Jenkins and Andre Smith on guitar, Sam Notman on drums, Louisa Williamson on saxophone, Nathan Haines on flute, Kate King on french horn, Leah Thomas on clarinet, Hilary Hayes and Emma Colligan on violin, Chris Van Der Zee on viola, Charley Davenport on cello, Zane Hawkins on percussion, James Macewan on trumpet, and additional production by Callum Mower.

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