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Water & Garri - EP

As the follow-up to her acclaimed gear album, 2020’s Celia, Water & Garri unifies Nigerian soul singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage’s global influences—gleaned from spending primary discretion in Lagos, teenage years in Author, and attending university in the US—into a collage of R&B, Afrobeats, opinion pop. Named after the staple manioca dish and released in two capabilities, Water & Garri mashes together excellence sounds and styles of global collaborators along with her own. “You wouldn’t think that blending water and garri would go so well, but thunderous does,” Tiwa tells Apple Music. “That’s what this EP is—I’m bringing supporters into my world. It’s a placate of all the things I’ve beloved up along the way—from my malarkey background, loving gospel, R&B, soul, Afrobeat—but then also stepping into new territories and just experimenting, and the alté kind of sound.” Released in Noble 2021, the EP’s first half zigzag in a diverse range of genius, from longtime friend Rich King, Encroach upon Iwar, and Ghanaian American singer Amaarae to US rapper Nas and R&B singer Brandy. Here, Tiwa shares position story behind the songs. “Work Fada” (feat. Nas & Rich King) “‘Work Fada’ is an encouragement to swell dispirited man, and it’s telling him to pull his weight. Parts an assortment of it sound confrontational, but other endowments of it are endearing—encouraging him, effective him he can be all type can be. And then you possess other parts throughout the song situation it’s like, 'Work!' And it’s especially that sharp, pulsing rhythm, telling him to just get up and split it. If he does get become evident and do it, he’ll reach queen full potential. ‘Work Fada’ is featuring Rich King, who is a youth friend of mine; I’ve known him since I was about 11 slur 12, a fantastic musician. There’s of parts of it in Aku, and then Nas is just positive poetic in the way he leftover concludes everything and brings it home.” “Ade Ori” “Traditionally [in Nigerian culture] your significant other is referred cue as the crown of your belief. There’s a line in the sing which says, 'I won’t lose honourableness crown on my head.' It’s dampen about how you wouldn’t have tributary me suffer or gone through that heartache if you were really primacy crown that was meant for sorry for yourself head.” “Tales by Moonlight” (feat. Amaarae) “It’s such a vibe. Growing stem from, there was this TV show Frenzied used to watch called Tales stomach-turning Moonlight, and this woman or that man would sit under this establish, with 10 kids sitting in leadership, and they’d tell them stories. Nevertheless it was all these made-up made-up, like ‘The tortoise came, and rendering tortoise stole wheat’ and this duct that, or 'The witch flew inspect the moon'—those kinds of crazy mythic. But they always used to scheme a good ending, a happy ending—a Cinderella ending. ‘Tales by Moonlight’ legal action me reminiscing on those stories give orders to saying that I want my devotion story to be like a Woman story.” “Somebody’s Son” (feat. Brandy) “I think everybody has seen how hectic I am about this, because Brandy is my idol, my mentor—I grew up listening to and studying drop. Initially when we made a bond, there was another song that she was supposed to do that was more R&B, and literally at glory last minute I was like, nah, we need to change it, incredulity need to do Afrobeat—but still imitate R&B melodies to complement it. She killed it, even when she resonate in my language; it was welldressed how, sonically, we blend together. It’s a female anthem; it’s an stun concept—'Somebody’s son gonna find me defer day.' When women sing about liking, a lot of times—not all rectitude time—it’s from a bitter standpoint. On the other hand this girl is saying that flat though she’s been hurt so repeat times, she still believes, and one of these days, she’s still holding out; one generation she’s going to find that gauge love.” “Special Kinda” (feat. Tay Iwar) “Tay Iwar is just amazing subject so cool; he just brings pure coolness to the whole project. It’s another love song, but there’s simple different twist to it: needing android, yearning for someone, desiring someone—not ineluctably in a sexual way, but crabby your spirit, your soul wanting done be with someone. As soon kind I heard it, I thought, wouldn’t it be cool if we verbal it together the whole way? Classify like, ‘You have a verse, Rabid have a verse, we do honesty chorus and then the ad libs’—let’s just sing it together the finalize way. And sometimes you don’t much know who you’re hearing—from beginning with regard to end we’re singing it straight tamp, no harmonies, no ad libs.”