BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//360exp//Events//ES METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/Europe/Berlin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/Berlin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a2e56385-e7f3-4431-8699-5278be22a21f@360exp.net SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260824T112756 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20270329T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20270329T180000 SUMMARY:Jordan Rakei - A Safe Place To Be Wild Biog LOCATION:Grosse Freiheit 36 DESCRIPTION:Jordan Rakei is feeling more free than ever before. A decade s ince the release of his debut album Cloak\, the New Zealand-born and Briti sh-based singer-songwriter is entering a new chapter of unfettered creativ ity. Channeling the liberating bedroom beat-making mentality of his teenag e years\, he brings listeners his most expansive and vulnerable album yet\ , A Safe Place To Be Wild. “I’ve been creating with no rules\, just ex ploring and leaning into the uncomfortable side of the unknown\,” he say s. “This record is unfiltered and it expresses all of me. I’m always p ushing myself as an artist and now it’s birthed a new phase that’s bor derline unhinged.”\n\nA self-confessed “accommodating people pleaser\, ” Rakei embodies a new energy on A Safe Place To Be Wild. “There’s s ongs on here written from these perspectives of being badass and uncomprom ising\, or alternatively very silly. These are all parts of me that the pu blic never sees\,” he says. “Since every album I write has a new sound and outlook\, it only felt natural to go deeper with this one\, even thou gh it can feel a little scary being so open to the world.”\n\nOver the p ast 10 years\, multi-instrumentalist and producer Rakei has built a loyal global fanbase thanks to his distinctively searching musical voice. Across six albums he has delved into everything from neo-soul warmth to jazz-inf luenced improvisation\, earworming pop melodics\, sweeping orchestral arra ngements and storytelling songwriting. Collaborating with the likes of Sou th London rapper Loyle Carner\, singer-songwriter Tom Misch and producer B onobo\, Rakei has been nominated for Best Album at the 2025 Ivor Novello A wards following the release of his acclaimed fifth record\, The Loop\, as well as receiving a nomination for an AIR Award and the Australian Music P rize. Onstage\, meanwhile\, his joyous and masterfully-arranged live shows have had crowds bouncing everywhere from Glastonbury to two sold-out perf ormances at the Royal Albert Hall.\n\nSeemingly at the peak of his prolifi c career to date\, Rakei now takes a radical turn. Rather than painstaking ly collaborating in recording studios and poring over the post-production process\, on his seventh album he takes a no-holds-barred approach. Inform ed by a year spent as the first resident at London’s iconic Abbey Road S tudios and inspired by the creation of his own home studio just outside of London\, Rakei set to work on a new\, instinctive process that followed t he urge for freedom\, experimentation and truth-telling vulnerability. The result is 14 tracks of remarkably wide-ranging yet engagingly cohesive mu sic\; songs that speak to Rakei’s recent experiences of fatherhood\, lov e and life\, as well as expressing his hopes and fears for the world at la rge. There is the playful falsetto funk of “Would Ya Mind”\, the eerie \, cavernous electronics of “Mirror”\, cinematic strings and orchestra l melodrama of “Bombs” and ‘70s throwback psych-soul of “Enemies ” – all tied together by Rakei’s ear for lasting melody and anchored in the soft vibrato of his voice.\n\n“I used to have stresses in my car eer about validation or expectations but since I’ve had children and rea ched new heights with the Royal Albert Hall shows\, I set new goals\,” h e says. “It feels like Chapter II of my career\, where I’m drawing on all aspects of myself in my songwriting without fear or judgement. I’m b ack to being 13\, making beats in my bedroom for fun and for the love of i t all. It’s not about caring what other people think.”\n\nBorn in New Zealand before moving to Australia at the age of three\, Rakei grew up ena moured by the soulful sounds of Stevie Wonder as much as J Dilla’s beat- making swing. A keen rugby\, chess and ping pong player\, he would spend h is spare time after school and between shifts at the local supermarket upl oading YouTube covers and crafting his own intricate beats. By 2014 he had begun forming his distinct sound with the release of his self-produced de but EPs\, Franklin’s Room and Groove Curse. A local fanbase soon sprung up and in 2015 he made the move halfway across the world to London.\n\nHit ting the ground running in the English capital\, Rakei soon became part of a DIY crew of influential South London producers and artists including Mi sch\, Carner\, rapper Barney Artist and pianist Alfa Mist. He began writin g sessions with a range of artists in the city\, earning a GRAMMY nod for his work on the electronic duo Disclosure’s 2015 track “Masterpiece” \, and by 2016 his debut album Cloak had brought him to the attention of l isteners who were taken by his distinct blend of hip-hop swing\, jazz virt uosity and R&B intimacy.\n\nIn the decade since\, Rakei has refused to slo w down. Following records\, 2017’s Wallflower\, 2019’s Origin\, 2021 ’s What We Call Life and 2024’s The Loop\, have touched on everything from Joni Mitchell’s storytelling introspection to Donald Byrd’s funk fusion\, while his two EPs and an album under the Dan Kye moniker have exp lored his dancefloor influences and his 2026 EP Between Us saw him joining forces with the likes of singer-songwriter Jalen Ngonda\, JUNGLE’s Tom McFarland\, Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso\, saxophonist Nubya Garcia an d producer FKJ for a selection of intuitive collaborations each created at Abbey Road. That newfound process would prove vital for the creation of A Safe Place To Be Wild.\n\n“I used Abbey Road as a canvas to throw ideas at\, which meant I started heading into the smaller rooms in the complex to make demos off the grid with no headphones\,” he says. “One day I w ould make something post-punk\, another day I would mess around with techn o\, another would be pop. I was developing songs with a free energy\, allo wing for rawness and grittiness and I ended up with 50 ideas that were dis tilled into 20 that we recorded over two weeks. This album is just 14 trac ks from that period.”\n\nTaking these demos back to his home studio – the place where Rakei feels “most safe and free to play and explore” – he built up and broke down the tracks into their final form. The resul ting compositions ended up surprising even Rakei himself owing to their op en-ended sense of exploration. The sprightly\, group chorus energy of “W ould Ya Mind” embraced the avant-silliness of David Byrne\, for instance \, while “Mirror” explores Rakei’s Bjork and glitchy Autechre influe nces with its dark electronica\, “Enemies” dips into the raw ‘70s sy nth explorations of Sly and the Family Stone and “Bombs” channels John Barry in its swirling\, romantic strings.\n\nLyrically\, meanwhile\, Rake i employed a “journal-like expression\, pouring personal thoughts and un filtered feelings into each track.” Consequently\, songs like “Grace ” and “Enemies” embody a pugnacious\, uninhibited persona Rakei woul d otherwise not reveal to the world\, while “Games” is a diaristic ent ry on the trials of love\, “Paradise” tells the deeply personal story of the love Rakei has for his brothers\, and “Bombs” is a testament to the power of partnership in the face of the world’s chaos. “I want pe ople to feel the different moods throughout this album\,” he says. “I ’m speaking about my family\, my love\, my own insecurities. There’s v ariety from stepping into the volatility of life and it’s all brought to gether through my experiences.”\n\nWith future plans for more material f rom his productive Abbey Road sessions to be released\, as well as an exte nsive tour that will reimagine Rakei’s expert stagecraft across the UK a nd EU\, including dates at London’s Alexandra Palace with more global da tes to be announced\, it seems this new chapter for the visionary creative is only getting started. “I’m truly myself in this music\,” he says . “It’s all about creating that safe space to be wild and free.”\n\n Boletos: https://www.reservix.de/tickets-jordan-rakei-a-safe-place-to-be-w ild-biog-in-hamburg-grosse-freiheit-36-am-29-3-2027/e2575671 URL;VALUE=URI:https://360exp.net/events/a2e56385-e7f3-4431-8699-5278be22a2 1f END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR