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Luke James recently sat down with EBONY to discuss the duality of his music, his upcoming album Black Light, and “I Want You” being a go-to wedding song.
“I don’t know a non-musical person from New Orleans,” James said of his hometown and the “soul” that influenced his sound and the way he crafts songs. “It’s something that is natural, tribal and true to the fiber that makes me and it’s important to implement that inside my music to tell my story.”
A great deal of the songs by the singer/songwriter, including the soulful cut “These Arms,” on the surface are about love but also represent the sexual side of a relationship. The passion is just what ends up in his work, he said.
“I’m a sensual [and] sexual person. I love sensuality, and so I wear it on my shoulder, I guess,” he said. “I can’t see myself creating anything that doesn’t have a drop of that in it and music for me is therapeutic.”
Although his forthcoming album is different sonically, there are still large elements of sensuality in the lyrics.
“To be fair, I think I got a little ahead of myself; it was an epiphany that hit and that felt right,” the 34-year-old said about naming the album. “Black Light came to me as I listened to the rough cuts that I’ve done lately and I just feel that Luke James on Sensuality, New Music & Making a Perfect Wedding Song more than anything. It just represents [that] you see everything; it’s something that goes deeper and then sensually, [it’s also] something that goes deeper.”
He used the words “Afrocentric,” “aphrodisiac” and “psychedelic” to describe the mood and tone of the new music, which is “what life has been” for him lately.
No matter the direction his new music will travel, the fact that his Grammy-nominated song “I Want You” has been played at numerous weddings since its 2011 release still moves James.
“It means everything for someone to play my music in such a monumental moment in their life and union,” he said. “It’s what I do it for, it’s what I create for, to be a part of people’s lives and hopefully make it better and in turn it betters me.”
Black Light is expected to released this year.
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