After decades of contemplating a solo venture and procrastinating on a format, Martin Terefe began working on what came most naturally to him, a collection of personal songs about love and loss; hope, dreams, fear and frustration.

The first single to be released from this collection of songs is the atmospheric Some Advice for the Kids on 5 July - and it was well worth the wait. Feeling both modern and classic, it speaks of an artist with decades of experience in crafting music across a range of genres. At once it recalls the glitchy melancholy of In Rainbows era Radiohead and James Blake’s down-tempo electronic experimentation, coupled with a subtle orchestra sound and a deep soulfulness. Whilst Terefe’s assured song-writing and emotive vocals recalls something older and familiar.

In keeping with the theme of family, Some Advice for the Kids was penned for Terefe’s now almost grown children about a world he describes as “very hard to make sense of”. The song, as Terefe expands, is “A call to keep calm and allow for reflection even though everything and everyone seem to be moving at the speed of data in a fibreoptic cable. Mostly it’s about the age-old pursuit of trying enjoy the journey and not take yourself too seriously.”

Martin Terefe wrote, recorded and produced Some Advice for the Kids and performed every instrument on the track. It was recorded in pieces between other projects and in various studios, planes and hotel rooms around the world. The strings were recorded with long-time collaborator David Davidson in Nashville with his quartet The Lovesponge Strings. The song was engineered by Terefe and Oskar Winberg at Kensaltown Studios, London.

Some Advice for the Kids is accompanied by a music video created by Martin Terefe and longtime friend and Apparatjik member Jonas Bjerre. The video is edited to include clips from Martin's forthcoming film The Involuntary Gardner which will be screened later in the year.

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