‘Energy’ is the debut album from 21 year old, Iman Omari. Iman cites Jazz, Electro and Hip Hop with a funky stance as the inspirations for his music. My homie ItsNate put me on to the L.A. native this week, and as soon as I heard the track, “Midnight” – a powerful fusion of synths, R&B-influenced vocals and beautiful words – I was hooked! I hate to say it, but something about Iman reminds me of a less poppy, more soulful Ryan Leslie – although Ryan has lost his way over the past couple of years, think genuine musicianship, synth-heavy, soulful tracks…laced with *real* instruments from a (handsome) young man that spends 22 hours of the day in the studio! Hit the jump to watch Iman Omari in the studio and for the free download of his project, ‘Energy’.
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Admittedly, I haven’t written about music in quite a while. I’ve been crazy busy with work and although there’s been some great releases of late – nothing has moved me enough to want and sit and right about it. That was until I was introduced to this delightful collection of tracks, produced and written entirely by Iman with features from from Good Joon (Overdoz) and Gia Scott-Heron (Gil’s daughter). 2011 has been a year of revolution for R&B, a plethora of artists have created this new wave of material featuring electronica beats and synths on the forefront with a very distinct 90′s R&B core – which has been welcomed with open arms by the masses! Iman Omari seems to be a bit of an underdog of this genre, but in no way is that because he isn’t up to scratch, dude is just too busy creating material in the studio (and looking fine) to be caught up in the PR hype. In fact the video below is the only piece of content I could find on Iman describing his music!
You can download Iman Omari’s debut project, ‘Energy’ by clicking on the image below or clicking here. I also took the liberty of finding a stream player for you all :-)!
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