Poet/emcee Otis Mensah crafts something wonderful with his new tune “Day Dream”. Which is built over a J Dilla backdrop while Otis laces solemn, often off kilter lyrics accompanied by a sentimental vibe.

Need I say more, hit the play button and get familiar.

About:

Otis Mensah is “a young story-teller-rapper-poet with a mesmerising delivery and a talent for drawing the poetic from the everyday happenings in his life.” The 1000 Monkeys (Spoken Word/Poetry Group). The alternative hip-hop artist has risen from a new wave; age and era which embraces a contemporary take on a nostalgic authenticity in hip-hop music. The music he creates often captures a mellow vibe but a good-willed atmosphere with wordplay and lyricism that is nothing less than “ironic, honest and humorous.”

Otis’s music almost appears as though the young artist is thinking out loud and documenting a journey of thoughts when writing lyrics however drowned in playful imagery and unconventional symbolism left open to interpretation. It’s not unusual to hear Otis’s lyrics accompanied by a boom-bap sounding hip-hop instrumental with a jazzy or soulful feel drawing from influences such as Mos Def, Common & The Roots.

“Stay positive, keep generous & spread good vibes” is the message that drives Otis’s music as he perseveres in connecting to an audience that relates to his writing and shares a mutual interest for thought-provoking lyricism and expressionism.

The début Mixtape from Otis Mensah OUT 05/02/2016

So this right here’s for the Days over Damson… An obsession with time shadows my existence; it stalks my stark reality. The only light at this point floods in through the liquid crystal display. Nostalgia is the inevitable human curse but embrace it, embody it, remember and recall the fruitful times past. Although we are above and beyond the memoirs of yesterday, experience the joy found in the process of recollection and reminiscence but know this feeling can be recreated and made flesh in new forms, tomorrow. The future is waiting and it all begins with the “Days over Damson”.

Welcome to the dairies of a Day Dreamer. Can’t you sense the sound of sentiment in these words scribbled & scribed. Paintings of days & daze. Pictures of Dandelions & Dahlias. If thoughts of fruitfulness could speak & express their taste ( past ) it would sound similar to this ‘Day Dream’ https://youtu.be/9pW8XQeMlp4 taken from debut Mixtape ‘Days over Damson’ OUT 05/02/2016  available for free download at https://otismensah.bandcamp.com/ &  http://thecyphereffect.com/