Nardeydey: Nardeydey
When Nardeydey, AKA Shirley Tetteh, released her first solo singles “Speedial” and “FreeFalling” at the tail end of 2018 and start of 2019, we were watching in real time the emergence of a singular and complex songwriter-artist from a musician that was already a guitarist of renown in London’s new jazz scene.
Playing in fast-rising collective Nérija (Domino), spiritual jazz ensemble Maisha (Brownswood), and also in the Mercury Music Prize 2019 nominated Seed Ensemble, Shirley opened up to reveal her deeply personal and remarkable songwriting, processing her inner life with dream-logic tapestries, pulling together myriad influences from folk, pop, jazz, soul, gospel, electro-pop, afrobeats and beyond. All written and self-produced, the tracks are deeply original, wearing her guitar virtuosity lightly in creating inexplicably perfect trans-genre pop songs.
Her debut eponymous EP will be released digitally and as a Rough Trade exclusive 12” vinyl at the end of November.
