Estelle Clifford: Louis Baker - Medicine

Kiwi soul musician Louis Baker has released his third EP, Medicine his first work as sole producer.  

The EP reflects the bond Baker has with his craft, allowing him to connect with himself and communicate with the world.  

Estelle Clifford joined Jack Tame to give her thoughts on this new release. 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Expectation based the follow twice. It's hard Cold haptique and
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
That is Louis Baker. That song's Fool's Expectation, beautiful A.
He's just released a new album it's called Medicine, and
our music review at Style Cliff it's been listening. She's
with us this morning ten ark were good morning and I.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Am bringing all the soul vibes to you. Yeah, with
our mate Louis Baker. So he has released his latest EP.
It's called Medicine, and it's all in the title music
is his, which probably is something that can be said
for quite a few of us. I reckon and has
this opener called Fool's Expectation and it kind of has

(01:16):
like this start without me terrifying you with my voice
too much, but one of my beautiful starts. So you're like, oh,
this could be from a scene in dirty dancing, like
one of those sixties sort of swoody thoughts looking the
scene and questioning themselves and having hope, but going all
that all went to custom kind of thing, you know,

(01:37):
or maybe some cool sixties jazz soul kind of barwed
Bee probably more how it would be, but that more
modern production that we get with Louis and his arrangements,
So there's lots of layering and then this real cool
lyrical journey. I've sort of hope and loss and disappointment
and he does. I mean, his voice is so you know,
he can go for those really massive, huge, big voice nots,

(02:00):
but actually for a lot of this EP, he keeps
it quite subtle and quite I mean it sort of
makes him mouth a little bit, doesn't it. You know,
It's like it's really beautiful and throughout that song it's
really great. A lot of emphasis throughout the EP of
that real thick, deep bassline, so making those beats and
then the lush, rich vocals that come over that just

(02:21):
seem to flow out of him is a really really
great co lab Worth Wellington singer artist Wallace. It's a
song called Bean Gone, which has actually been placed in
the top twenty on the EPRA Silver Scroll. But their
voice of just meld together, like they come together as
one so beautifully, and she I mean she's a stellar

(02:43):
artist anyway, So to see them co Lab is really
cool thing. There's a few of those psychedelic, trippy grooves
kind of going on in some songs with that little
record ta tat kind of drum thing that keeps you
sort of moving because I don't want to make it
sound like it's all slow and swayy, like I think
there's plenty of stuff in here where you could get
up and can't help but sort of cut a couple

(03:06):
of shape. But but but also there are those songs
that take you on that just really I guess it's medicine, right,
He's trying to make you just reconnect, chill out. I
think that it's like a woman brace. If I was
going to sum it up.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Like that, Yeah, nice.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
I haven't. I haven't hugged Louis Baker, but I imagine
he's quite good at.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah. I mean yeah, if his music is easy to
go by, for sure he's giving us yeah exactly. So,
I mean it's interesting, right, because like you say, he's
like when I think of his music, I do think
of the kind of layering, right. It's interesting to me
that he's the sole producer on this album, so and
that you know, there's quite a it's quite distinct Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
To take on and it was his like he set
himself a goal and that's what he wanted to achieve.
And I think he's done a really beautiful job. I mean,
he's worked with some incredible people through his career, so
you must pick up so much. And I guess when
you sit with some songs yourself as the sole producer,
you get a chance to titoo a round and playing
yeah with how you think it should go. And he's
done a really great job. I was expecting maybe not

(04:09):
to have as much smooth production, you know, for someone
picking it on just as himself, but he clearly knows
what he's doing, no, and he's done some fun little
stuff in there, and I think it's one of those
ones you'll first listen to, you'll hear his voice and
you'll follow that along, and then as you go back
you start hearing some of those different beats and sounds
and things that he's put through, some of that layering.

(04:31):
It'll be interesting to see it live because I think
that sort of changes everything as well, when it comes
to a full band being part of the production. And
that's kind of the beautiful thing I think about soul
and R and B. It can have some different elements
to it once it becomes live, and they play with
it even more once it's on stage. So if you
happen to be in his hometown of Wellington tonight at

(04:53):
San fran So they're going to do the EP and
then they're going to do a whole lot of you know,
his other headlog and everything. And then of course the
massive news everyone might have seen is that he's packing
his bags to Europe sorry or whatever, like Halle. So
that's really exciting stuff for him on the back of
just releasing something new for himself too.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
So good. Okay, what'd you give me?

Speaker 4 (05:15):
I'm giving it a nine out of ten only because
I wanted more.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
Like yeah, yeah, I like that very good. Okay, nine
out of ten for medicine. Bye way, Baker. We'll have
a bit more of a listen in a few minutes
thanks to Stelle.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
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