#krs wants to jump into blue water

[noxiousgrace]

Cop car- mitski

Krs

Kim rok soo

Kim rok soo

I want to bring the animatic in my head to life so bad GUH

[jezevelle-blog]

MY APOLOGIES!

OUT OF CHARACTER SECTION

general.

NAME jezebel van gok

NICKNAME(S) gogh | when it has to do with the gangs ), belle | honestly, anyone. she loves the nickname ), jesse | her brother. only ) and gokie | her mother, but anyone can use it, she finds it cute )

AGE twenty-one | int. ) twenty-two | kr. )

BIRTHDAY 11th of february, 1996.

BIRTH PLACE seoul, south korea

NATIONALITY south korean

RACE/ETHNICITY asian

SEX female

GENDER cisfemale

PRONOUNS she / her / her

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION pan.

SEXUAL ORIENTATION pan

relationships.

PARENTS febuary gok | mother ) and gok kuhn | father )

SIBLINGS solomon gok | older brother ) and elijah ‘idris’ gok | older sister )

CLOSE FRIENDS … hi come plot with me~

ADVERSARIES … ^^. she doesn’t like the red sentinels, the members are fine but it’s what she’s been fed about them. not the biggest fan of the leader in her own gang, again, due to what she’s been fed.

LOVER(S) past — a girl called kim minji. ^^maybe plots??

physicality.

HEIGHT 5’5” inch. || 165 cm

WEIGHT 111 lb || 51 kg

BUILD thin, she works out regularly but has a hard time building muscle.

HAIR COLOUR naturally, her hair is a a very dark brown, she regularly add highlights.

EYE COLOUR black.

SHOE SIZE 240 | kr. ) 7 | us. )

appearance.

EYE SIGHT 20 / 20 vision.

BODY HAIR the second she hit eighteen, her sister and her mother all went for full body hair removals. it was a bonding experience.

COSMETIC highlights her hair, sometimes wears contacts and wears makeup when working, but not usually.

ENHANCEMENTS laser hair removal.

TATTOOS n/a

PIERCINGS left ear —standard lobe, upper lobe and double helix. right ear — standard and upper lobe, forward helix and tragus.

SCARS a scar just under her chin. story explained below.

MARKS n/a

ATTIRE usually casual and provocative. when working seriously, outside of stripping and prostitution, or at events she dresses formal.

personality.

ZODIAC aquarius

ALIGNMENT neutral, true

MYERS-BRIGGS  esfp-a

ENNEAGRAM the leader / helper.

TEMPERAMENT choleric phlegmatic blend

HOGWARTS HOUSE slytherin

ELEMENT air

ANIMAL owl

mentality.

SAVVIES people | reading them, pleasing them, the lot ), has a way with her words, improvising.

INEPTITUDE physical fights, accepting things, sticking to plans, speaking when she shouldn’t | there’s always something to say. ), honesty.

QUIRKS lying, sometimes she just needs to, knowing she can convince someone to believe her. if the average person blinks twenty times a minute, she blinks five. she’ll stare at anything and anyone, if something catches her eye, she won’t look away. if someone promises something, she won’t forget it. if they don’t live by their word, she remembers.

LURES pretty faces, weapons / toys, promises

MORALITY this is contradicting, but liars are bad in her book. she puts honesty up on a pedestal, it’s something she isn’t capable of, so when someone is fully capable of not lying, she reasons with them, even when they’re in the wrong.

PERCEPTION depends on the glass. a glass is never half / half, to every glass there is either slightly more water or slightly less. never both, she has learned this and always analyses and outweighs the lack or abundance of water.

IN CHARACTER SECTION.

biggest fear ?

“what is this? who are you?” with a tilt of her head, she went on. “i’m not going to tell you. i don’t fear nothing."

happiest memory ?

she didn’t understand. no emotion, no reaction. just another question. maybe she should respond. “my happiest memory?” she pondered the question. perhaps, she should use intimidation. “ah, yes — the first time a killed a man. that was exciting.” a grin grew on her face. “my brother guided me, i’ll never forget that moment, i truly admire him."

most embarrassing moment ?

nothing. she had just said her happiest memory was her first murder and now they wanted to know her most embarrassing moment? okay… maybe humour. "on my eighteenth birthday, i went to get laser hair removal, it was my first trip and i was shaking. at the time, i wasn’t very comfortable in my body so being naked in front of the very pretty and young woman that was going to be getting rid of my body hair, i was nervous. i ended up slipping and twisting my ankle.” she chuckled lightly. “i had to be taken to hospital. honestly, looking back at it, it’s not that bad but i was mortified at the time.”

love or lust ?

this was all over the place. she couldn’t understand. were these questions in a specific order? provoke them. “lust… i mean, the both of us know what my job is, yeah?” she ran her fingers through her hair, she winked before going on, almost purring. “i charge by the hour, and i offer special services, if you’re interested in ‘happy endings’…"

zombie apocalypse or alien invasion ?

no? she placed her hands on her thighs, leaning over a bit. “alien invasion. i’d fuck ‘em all dead.” she stared, her eyes squinting.

favourite musician ?

fine. she’ll just act as emotionless as them. “music’s never done much for me.” she shrugged her shoulders. “if i can dance to it, i’ll like it.”

rom-coms or horror ?

she couldn’t. she was usually so good at this, why didn’t she know how to respond correctly? “hm… horror. who’re these questions for, by the way? only me? i think most people associated with me and the things i do would pick horror."

biggest regret ?

her eyes flashed with slight alarm. no more asking questions, especially if they hit her with this. “regret?” she adjusted herself in her spot. “i don’t regret anything. this interview maybe?"

if you had to describe yourself as a colour, which one would it be and why ?

“not red — the colour of lust, power, anger. many people wold associate my personality traits with red, but i prefer purple.” maybe if she opened up, was honest. “i can’t deny that red is a very representative colour, but purple has blue hues. a colour that is sometimes compared to sadness — loneliness. so… purple.

what’s your earliest memory ?

“you see this scar?” she tilted her head back, pointing towards the scar under her chin. “i don’t remember how old i was, but i have no memories of being younger — around three, maybe? my parents were throwing me to each other in a swimming pool, when my sister decided to jump in while my mom was, like, throwing me, i guess. i hit the back of her head and… yeah. this happened.”

who’s a person that has made a large impression on you ?

two honest questions. this still confused her. an obvious lie, if they had been paying attention, they wold know the answer — or would have at least guessed. “i love bowie sung. she’s an admirable leader."

favourite season ?

no comment? ugh. “spring.”

most embarrassing moment ?

“again?” she crossed her arms. “no."

favourite christmas present ?

“the shit i buy myself.” she was over this. this wasn’t even fun anymore. when would it finish?

do you believe in love at first sight ?

“… of course not. love is something that must be developed. it can’t work otherwise."

are you a morning or night person ?

“night person, again, we both know my job right?”

family or friends ?

“family. my close friends are family anyway."

have you got a role model ?

from staring at the floor, she turned to look them in the eyes. “my brother."

have you ever had a pet and if so, what kind and what were they called ?

“yep. a rabbit. he was called cinnamon roll, one night we ended up eating him for dinner."

[stillsoundsmag-blog]

Rag n Bone Man // new wicked artist alert

Photo Credit to Danny North Lores

Biography

“Heartbreak’s pretty widespread, innit?” quips the prodigiously talented Rory Graham, nascent star-in-waiting Rag‘n’Bone Man, with a mischievous grin. Graham has injected an exciting new twist into the blues music he grew up with in his parental home in East Sussex bringing it bang up to date using the beats and production methods of contemporary hip hop. Equally he resurrects age-old themes of loss and romantic pain with a voice so immediate, raw and expressive that it transfixes anyone in earshot with its sheer size and elemental power.

In person, Graham is the dictionary definition of a gentle giant. His appearance suggests one serious dude. He’s a big man, bearded and with tattoos, but instead of Hate and Love, he has the words Soul and Funk inked across his knuckles. “I could’ve had Drum and Bass,” he jokes, in his warm, softly spoken manner, “or maybe Jungle across both hands”.

When Rory sings, he connects with people on a level far from everyday banter. Onstage at his sold out Village Underground show in June ’16 his voice by turns silenced the room and brought it to fever pitch. During quieter songs, as his vast, soulful growl filled the venue, there were people literally crying. His unique delivery of often very personal songs has that effect on people, rare in today’s pop, something that can’t be taught in stage academies by vocal trainers. Rory has spent fifteen years learning to flex his considerable vocal muscles alone, using his own instincts and shaping his life experiences into stories that stretch those.

Growing up in Uckfield, 20 miles inland from Brighton, music was always the main focus of Graham’s parental home. His father played guitar, his mum sang (both recreationally), and there would otherwise always be records playing. “My dad was super into blues, and also rock crossover stuff like JJ Cale,” he recalls. “There was also lots of reggae, like Peter Tosh, which eventually got me into the soundclash stuff, and jungle”.

At the age of 15, he MC’d with a drum ‘n’ bass crew, using the handle Rag ‘N’ Bonez, inspired by watching re-runs of ’70s Brit sitcom, ‘Steptoe And Son’. With little else to do in their backwater hometown, the crew jumped the airwaves via their own pirate radio station, but Graham soon realised he’d have to move to Brighton if he was going to get anywhere with music.

After testing out his rap skills at hip hop open-mic nights there and bingeing on UK home grown Hip Hop artists like Roots Manuva, he started shuttling up to London to a night at Brixton’s Jamm venue called Slipjam B. There, he hooked up with a couple of performers, Gizmo and DJ Direct, and they formed a crew called The Rum Committee. Over the ensuing few years, they’d support old-skool hip hop luminaries Pharoahe Monch and KRS-One at Brighton’s Concorde 2, and release their own album through Bandcamp, through which Rory learnt the rudiments of recording.

Parallel to all this, in private, he worked at his potential as a singer. At 19, his dad had coaxed him up to the mic at a blues jam in a local pub. “Afterwards,” he recalls, “this old geezer came up to me and said, ‘Dude, your voice is insane, you should sing some more’. That feeling of actually getting a reaction had a big effect – ‘Oh, I like this is – this is good!’”

At the beginning, there was a rather divergent progression between his ruffian rhyming in Rum Committee, and his ‘proper’ singing, which was informed more by his dad’s old blues records. “I’d found my voice through that style of music,” he reasons, “so instantly when I started trying to write my own music, it all sounded very like Muddy Waters, because that’s the stuff I’d grown up with”. He smiles, and adds: “Blues is infectious. No-one’s ever listened to blues, and gone, ‘Nah, don’t like that’, know what I mean? Nobody’s ever listened to BB King and gone, ‘That’s shit’. They haven’t – and if you did, you’re a mug!”

Graham duly self-released an EP called ‘Blues Town’. “My voice didn’t sound that great, and it was pretty badly recorded,” he admits, “but it surprisingly got a lot of love”. Doors started opening: he landed acoustic gigs, including one supporting Joan Armatrading at Brighton Dome.

Circa 2011, he got together with UK Hip Hop label High Focus releasing a couple more EP’s where his bluesy stylings were underpinned by the label’s trademark jazzy beats. He’d do gigs solo, with just a DJ backing him, but when he started working with producer Mark Crew Rory’s song-orientated fusion of blues and hip hop really developed. At the time Crew was working on Bastille’s debut album Bad Blood, Rory had been working as a carer for Asperger’s sufferers, but could now afford to do music full-time, on the basis of just a rough demo Crew landed Graham a publishing deal with Warner Chappell.

At Crew’s studio bunker in Battersea, they slowly pieced together another EP, 2014’s ‘Wolves’, whose towering ambition was best flagged by the fact that it eventually contained nine tracks – an album, in all but name. Crew’s robust beats echoed Graham’s predilection for jazzy hip hop giants Gang Starr, and guests included rapper Vince Staples, Stig Of The Dump, and Kate Tempest, whom Graham had befriended pre-Mercury award. Within the hip hop-y sound format, the song was paramount, giving Rory free rein to explore song structures, usually with an explosive chorus showcasing his mighty tonsils.

“There’s a lot of pain in the lyrics,” he reveals, “but it’s not always necessarily mine. It’s interesting to me, what’s going on in people’s lives. One night I was getting drunk with a mate, and we were having a proper deep and meaningful conversation, and he told me that his missus had made it so he wasn’t allowed to see his daughter anymore. I was like, ‘I can’t not write a song about this. So the next day I wrote ‘No Mother’. I find myself doing that a lot – something clicks in my head, like, ‘Right, that deserves something to be said about it!’”

Graham’s many talents – versatile songwriter, powerhouse singer, conduit for and conveyor of myriad human emotions – led Columbia Records to sign him on the strength of ‘Wolves’. For the ensuing ‘Disfigured’ EP (2015), he and Crew went for a more stripped-back sound, inspired by the spaciousness Rory heard in Al Green’s music, clearing the way for That Voice, without interfering clutter. “I remember thinking, ‘I can just do what I want now, so if I just do something that sounds good, I’m not gonna worry about what genre it is. That’s why there’s one track on there that sounds like Bon Iver, one that’s proper hardcore blues-rock, and one that’s more a hip hop/soul kind of sound. There’s nothing on there that sounds exactly the same as anything else.”

Lead track ‘Bitter End’, a tear-jerking realisation of a relationship’s demise, was staunchly supported then playlisted on BBC Radio 1 Xtra, and made it onto Radio One’s ‘In New Music We Trust’ playlist. On the back of the EP, Graham put together a Rag‘n’Bone Man live band, featuring a drummer, bassist, guitarist, keyboard player and backing singer. They toured the UK with hand-picked guests under the banner ‘Rag ‘N’ Bone Man Presents’, selling out shows up and down the country. They made quite a splash across Europe’s festival circuit, too, including Glastonbury, Eurosonic and Loveboxx, bringing fields and tents to a standstill, winning new disciples wherever they went.

In summer 2016, after a decade and a half of experimenting and learning, focusing and fine-tuning, Rag‘n’Bone Man is primed to become a household name. Rory has spent the winter hatching his debut full-length, partly with Mark Crew in Battersea, but also with other fresh producers. These include Two Inch Punch, aka Ben Ash, who has worked in a co-songwriter/producer capacity for Sam Smith, Jesse Ware and Damon Albarn’s Africa Express; and Jonny Coffer, another producer-cum-tunesmith whose CV ranges from Naughty Boy’s ‘La La La’ to tracks off the recent Beyoncé album.

As the album approaches completion, early tracks are sounding simply electrifying. As a teaser, Rory soft-released the song ‘Healed’, which was overseen by Cadenza (Lily Allen, Sean Paul), aka Oliver Rodigan, whose background as son of reggae DJ David Rodigan, chimed with Rory’s own. Its brass-assisted, slo-mo R&B-gospel vibe was concocted between London and Jamaica – a cultural collision, and a heartstring-tugging but quintessentially summery anthem.

During the painstaking process of assembling his all-important debut LP, Graham’s untetherable need to perform became so out of control, he took to turning up at open-mic nights, to ‘unleash the beast’ that is his tumultuous singing equipment.

Now, finally, the album’s lead single proper is ready for release: as an expression of mortal vulnerability, set to a stark chain-gang rhythm, it is almost impossible not to be moved, stopped dead in your tracks, by ‘Human’. Here is a song which fully encapsulates Graham’s peculiar contradictions: his strength and his gentleness, his staggering vocal mastery yet intuitive soulfulness, his wisdom beyond his tender years.

In a post-millennial culture where emerging talents are schooled from an increasingly young age, breeding a certain uniformity of phrasing and technique, Rag‘n’Bone Man arrives as an impulsive antidote, connecting with people on a more direct nigh on spiritual level. Still an obsessive consumer of music, Rory’s Everyman qualities reverberate in every note he sings.

As well as Soul and Funk, Rory has Star written all over him – an exceptionally warm and engaging guy with an astonishing natural gift. The world’s going to love getting to know him!

Bio credit to Chuff Media