Chicago pianist and producer C3zR channels heartache and longing right into a soulful seduction on “NOT OVER U” (that includes Travis Percy), a smoldering, jazz-soaked eruption of longing and the ghosts of affection’s previous.

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Lovelorn songs are available infinite varieties: Some are pure melancholy, carrying their damaged hearts on their sleeves, while others discover their candy spot in a extra upbeat surroundings, nearly tricking their viewers right into a state of euphoria because the singers channel ache into fervent ardour. C3zr’s newest single, in the meantime, channels that acquainted, timeless craving into one thing much more soulful and smoldering: A jazzy, smoky seduction, “NOT OVER U” (that includes vocalist Travis Percy) aches with longing and the sting of affection’s loss as C3zr invitations listeners to dwell in a second of loneliness and isolation.

I wanna depart
However I’m not over you
Are you able to understand that life
will get higher with two?

When alone
Ever assume on what we may’ve been?
Until your lust, grew better than the
Huge Ben

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “NOT OVER U,” the second single taken off C3zR’s forthcoming debut studio album Spherical Voyage, out in early 2024 through Los Angeles-based hip-hop and soul music label 600 Block Data. The moniker for Chicago-based pianist, producer, and trainer Cesar Pino, C3zR has been enchanting audiences for years together with his intoxicating mix of soul, jazz, funk, and hip-hop – all of which coalesce in three minutes of lovely, breathtaking sonic gold.

Following September’s lead single “B.B.B” (which featured fellow Chicago multi-hyphenate Ifeanyi Elswith on vocals), “NOT OVER U” finds Pino collaborating with New York Metropolis’s Travis Percy to create a haunting heart-wrenching spectacle:

I wanna depart
However I’m not over you
Are you able to understand that life
will get higher with two?

“I needed to jot down a music as if the listener is standing on a rooftop deck. Breezy, however introspective,” Pino tells Atwood Journal. “Once I reached out to my buddy Travis Percy and performed the chords on piano for him, he already envisioned a narrative to sing over it.”

For vocalist Travis Percy, “NOT OVER U” offered a chance for him to dwell in an area of nostalgia and heartache. ‘This observe carries numerous that means,” he says. “Lyrically, it tells an impacting narrative about being executed with somebody however not over them. Late nights, reminiscing to your self about how issues may’ve gone in another way. It’s in regards to the ghosts that hang-out their new relationship ’trigger they by no means repented for a way they harm you. All in all, it’s about how messy and unresolved love is, each from our previous and what we convey into our future relationships.”

You moved on
Discovered new love however really feel haunted huh?
All of your life, slipped by like a riptide
With reckless abandon

I wanna depart
However I’m not over you
Are you able to understand that life
will get higher with two?

Whether or not you’re in love or at the moment out of affection, “NOT OVER U” sends chills down the backbone as collectively, C3zR and Travis Percy reckon with the shadows of what got here earlier than. Stream the brand new single solely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned for extra to return from C3zR as he prepares to launch debut album Spherical Voyage within the coming yr!

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