Who the hell is Lushlife? That’s exactly what I asked when I caught wind of his rare “Order of Operations” record from 2007. Packed tight with beautiful Jazzy soundscapes and lush arrangements– this guy immediately got my attention.
Lush’s sizeable musical reach is as much a byproduct of the lessons learned train-wrecking beats for eager audiences, as it is a result of a strict and formal musical education. he has 13 years of classical piano training, having studied from the age of 5, along with an intense 7 year course in jazz kit drumming. along the way he’s arranged for jazz combos and performed on street-corners, at manhattan’s prestigious steinway hall and everywhere in between.
Lush went on to study music at university, where after a year spent crestfallen and destroyed, he got out of bed to turn hip-hop out.his first full-length, which lush thinks of as his ‘teenage symphony to hip-hop,’ blurs our sense of time by evoking emotions that we tie to hip-hop’s past whilst making a small step towards hip-hop’s future. written, produced, and performed entirely by the artist himself, ‘order of operations’ reveals lushlife’s optimistic vision of hip-hop.
Listen up and you might put on the rose-colored glasses too.
Below are two songs from his record ‘Order of Operations’. Don’t you dare sleep.
