Uwade "Florilegium" COLOR:YELLOW cosmic moment when the light

cosmic moment when the light is perfect

and were recorded in the middle - somewhere during May of 2022

housed in a wide spine gatefold sleeve

There’s no stronger metaphor for the audience the 25-year-old empathy engine has been generating since she began releasing music seven years ago

building off its predecessor

Uwade "Florilegium" COLOR:YELLOW cosmic moment when the lightFlorilegium, the debut album from songwriter Uwade, winds through genre, through death, break ups, friendship, and failure. Here, she wanted to honor as much of herself as she could her family and Nigerian heritage, her scholarly tendencies, her background in choirs, the literature that moves her, the melodies of artists like Fela Kuti, Yebba, and Julian Casablancas of the Strokes, who inspired her to start writing songs at the inception of her music