premiere: this rock-n-soul stunner’s music has a life of its own in the irresistible “wondering wanderer”

Olivier St. Louis is a D.C.-born, U.K.-bred Rock-n—Soul stunner that caught the ear of AFROPUNK veteran Laura Mvula, who he just got off tour with. Aptly named after his upcoming debut LP ‘Wondering Wanderer’, the album’s lead single is a blissfully self-assured rhythm and blues track with an inner life-force of its own. Deliberate, confident, soulful, and wonderfully understated, St. Louis takes listeners on a flight we’re all-too-willing to let him play pilot.

“In a world buzzing with the ever increasing noise of the web; silence to find “self” is becoming a space of imagination,” Olivier St. Louis tells AFROPUNK. “With fear of failure and the lie of instant success, individuality is more dependent on subscription rather than the sum of one’s influences. Now realizing the “authentic you” is less “whom am I?” and more “who am I like? “. The vale of virtuality thickens. Stepping out on a REAL limb is now just “too risky”. Within this binary Babel exists the ‘few’. Those with a sense of purpose, who despite imminent pitfalls, are willing to wander the desolation of the unknown in search of real meaning.”

Photo by Sven Marquardt