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BAKER BOY
debut album
GELA
out now
+ Releases video for new single
‘SURVIVE’
ft. UNCLE JACK CHARLES
+ New AR filter brings the amazing artwork to life
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★★★★ – Rolling Stone AU
★★★★ “one of the most exciting artists in the country.” – AU Review (Album of The Week)
“Among 2021’s hottest-anticipated debuts, this record looks to send Danzal Baker to Australian music’s upper echelon.” – NME (Cover Artist)
“There were two winners at last month’s AFL grand final: the Melbourne Football Club and Baker Boy.” – The Age
“Throughout Gela, Baker dispenses soul ‘meditjin’ for all.” – Stack (Feature Artist)
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Baker Boy’s debut album Gela is out today! To mark this massive milestone, The Fresh Prince of Arnhem Land has dropped a powerful new video for latest single ‘Survive’, featuring legendary Uncle Jack Charles, a proud Boon Wurrung, Dja Dja Wurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta man.
It is no small statement releasing your debut album. Gela, with its eponymous nature, feels like yet an even bigger statement. Gela is Danzal Baker’s skin name. To put it simply, it is his identity, “Gela is who I am. It is my story.” There could be no other name to describe these foundational tracks, which include singles ‘Cool As Hell’, ‘Meditjin feat. JessB’, ‘Move’, ‘Ride feat. Yirrmal’, ‘My Mind feat. G Flip’ and ‘Butterflies’. Just as these songs tell the unique tale of Australia’s most joyful and energetic performer, so does the accompanying artwork by Adnate. The perfect representation of Gela’s duality, the artwork is further brought to life by a new AR filter released on Baker Boy’s Instagram here.
Today also marks the release of the music video for ‘Survive’, an intimate one-shot performance co-directed by Danzal and his Creative Director and Stylist, Aurie Indianna. Taking classic cues from one of the all-time great music videos, ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ by Sinead O’Connor, it leaves no room to hide from the raw power of Baker Boy’s message. The result is exactly what he was going for, “When Aurie showed me the Sinead O’Connor video I was like damn, you can just feel the emotion and with a song like Survive, I just want it to hit… We wanted to create a visual that made people stop and listen.”
The simplicity in the video idea was key for Aurie, “Sometimes less really is more. This approach allowed Danzal’s raw emotion to tell the story.” A climactic zoom out to reveal the words of Uncle Jack Charles, completes what Aurie recognises as Baker Boy’s most powerful statement yet, “He’s strong, he’s angry and frustrated, but more than anything he is proud, even in his most overtly political track to date, Danzal still manages to keep it positive, he’s saying ‘we’re surviving, we’re thriving.
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GELA
Tracklisting
Announcing The Journey (performed by Glen Gurruwiwi)
Survive ft. Uncle Jack Charles
My Mind ft. G Flip
Ride ft. Yirrmal
Butterflies
Cool As Hell
Move
Headphones ft. Lara Andallo
Somewhere Deep ft. Yirrmal
Funk Wit Us
Stupid Dumb
Meditjin ft. JessB
Ain’t Nobody Like You ft. Jerome Farah
Make You Wanna Dance ft. Thando
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About BAKER BOY
Baker Boy was first introduced to adoring fans in 2017, with the one-two punch of debut singles ‘Cloud 9’ featuring Kian, and ‘Marryuna, featuring Yirrmal. The entirety of Baker Boy’s art, from his infectious flow to his music’s modern-throwback production to the jaw-dropping dance moves he perfected as part of the Djuki Mala dance troupe, connected instantly. With each successive release Baker Boy continued to establish himself as a deft, talented rapper, with charisma and verve inherited from the genre’s greats. His list of career accolades includes APRA AMCOS Song of The Year Nomination for ‘Meditjin feat. JessB’, six ARIA nominations; an ARIA Gold certification for ‘Cool As Hell’ & ‘Mr La Di Da Di’; six wins at the National Indigenous Music Awards; an Order of Australia medal; the 2019 Young Australian of the Year award; multiple placements in Triple J’s Hottest 100 and over 44.4 million streams of his music world-wide. He most recently performed at the 2021 AFL Grand Final and his music was chosen for FOX SPORTS NRL and AFL Indigenous Rounds and LEGO VIDIYO advertising campaigns
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