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Mellah has shared his self directed, 8mm video to ‘Old Friend’, taken from his debut EP Liminality.  The sun soaked clip,  premiered by The FADER, accompanies the most intimate and personal moment on the recently released EP.

The ‘Old Friend’ video is Mellah’s third self-directed clip, following the stark and imaginative ‘Round’ and the emotive ‘Nada’; comprised of hundreds of photographs taken by Liam. ‘Old Friend’ has already been featured on the most recent series of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.

Mellah recently performed a sold-out show in his native South London, at The Montague Arms. Further dates are to be announced soon.

Liminality is available to purchase via Rough Trade, and available to stream via Spotify and Apple Music.

“raw, stripped-back blues, ragged and furious – like PJ Harvey in her earliest, darkest days.” Sunday Times Culture

“Serious Beck vibes” NME

“… recalls the dark humour and storytelling of Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits” Independent

Ahead of the Liminality EP release, this Friday May 12th, Mellah, aka Liam Ramsden, has shared another track, this time in the form of “Nada“; a song that Liam says “is about death. My father died a couple of years ago now; his sudden, unexpected departure paraded in front of me the stark inevitability of death, which I had never really been faced with before, and through it illuminated the immediacy and beauty of my own life. “Nada” is my memento mori if you like.”

The song is accompanied by striking and evocative visuals created by Liam, “As ‘Nada’ is about the immediacy of life in the face of death, I wanted to make a video that would invoke that. My dad was a photographer, he gave me my first film SLR when I was 17. The video is simply every photograph I have ever taken with that camera.”

“Serious Beck vibes” – NME 

Mellah play the Montague Arms on May 16th – buy tickets here.

With his debut EP Liminality out May 12th, Mellah has shared his self-directed video for ‘Round’, a  dark and fantastical interpretation of the song’s inspiration.

Mellah, aka Liam Ramsden, says: “The video is in part a literal interpretation of an encounter I had with an ex-mod soldier in a pub in Warrington, which later became my motivation for the song. He was a pretty unhinged guy who had decided that what I needed was a stint in the British army to set me straight. He spent the evening making sure I knew about his hunch. It is also in part influenced by a book called ‘owning your own shadow’ by Robert Johnson (not the one who sold his soul to the devil). The White lady embodies the darker side of the soldier’s self, the part of himself that he cannot face and so torments him.”

‘Round’ has already received acclaim from the likes of The Line of Best Fit, DIY and The Sunday Times, who described the track as “raw, ragged and furious – like PJ Harvey in her earliest, darkest days”.

Mellah will celebrate the release of the EP with a show at Peckham’s Montague Arms on May 16th.

Delighted to introduce you to Mellah, the alias of Peckham musician and producer Liam Ramsden. We are thrilled to be releasing his debut EP Liminality on May 12th. Produced in Mellah’s studio by Liam and Oli Barton-Wood, Liminality is the raw and organic first release from one of South London’s most engaging new voices.

An impassioned storyteller, Liam was inspired to write the rhythmic and atmospheric EP opener ‘Round’ following a meeting with a former soldier in the British Army. ‘Round’ hints at the complexities of the human psyche while encapsulating the dark heart of Mellah’s song craft.

Of the track, Liam says: “The song is an attack on the entrenchment of war in the everyday, considering how a person can be broken down and rebuilt to fervently believe murder is not murder if it’s institutionalised”

Listen to ‘Round’ now and pre-order the EP now, via Rough Trade.