• A1 Poster — 'Onwards!' Release Show (LDN)

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  Celebrating Contour's incredible album 'Onwards' with two exclusive show posters for New York City and London, beautifully crafted high quality print:
  
  - A1-sized poster (LARGE) printed on 150gsm matte Munken Pure Rough Cream
  - Photography by Gabriel Morivera
  - Poster Design by Errol and Alex Rita
  - Printed by Pressision
  - Shipped out in heavy-duty, plastic-free poster tubes
  
  - A1-sized poster printed on 150gsm matte Munken Pure Rough Cream
  - Photography by Gabriel Morivera
  - Poster Design by Errol and Alex Rita
  - Printed by Pressision
  - Shipped out in heavy-duty, plastic-free poster tubes
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Onwards! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
  ships out within 3 days

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• A1 Poster — 'Onwards!' Show Poster (NYC)

  Poster/Print + Digital Album

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  Celebrating Contour's incredible album 'Onwards' with two exclusive show posters for New York City and London, beautifully crafted and high quality print:
  
  - A1-sized poster (LARGE) printed on 150gsm matte Munken Pure Rough Cream
  - Photography by Gabriel Morivera
  - Poster Design by Errol and Alex Rita
  - Printed by Pressision
  - Shipped out in heavy-duty, plastic-free poster tubes
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Onwards! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
  ships out within 3 days

  Purchasable with gift card

  Buy Poster/Print   £22 GBP or more 

  Send as Gift 

• Digital Track

  Streaming + Download

  Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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• Buy the Full Digital Album

• October 12 2022 - Pushing Back The Dark: A Poetry Reading at HOME

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  On October 12, Khari Lucas (aka Contour) and Touching Bass present an intimate evening of poetry with Asmaa Jama, Brother Portrait and S*an D. Henry-Smith at Ronan Mckenzie’s HOME gallery space.
  
  Both a celebration of Khari’s forthcoming project ‘Onwards!’ under his Contour alias, and also an ode to words, gathering and shared experiences. The title ‘Pushing Back The Dark’ takes its inspiration from Quincy Troupe’s poem of the same name.
  
  Copies of Khari’s ‘Onwards!’ lyric book will be available to buy on the night.
  
  Doors at 6pm.
  
  Contour 'Onwards'— Release Show, Oct. 9 @ Below Stone Nest: dice.fm/partner/touching-bass-ltd/event/lr57b
  
  Asmaa Jama:
  Asmaa Jama is a Somali artist + poet and filmmaker based in England. Asmaa has been commended for the Brunel African Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Wasafiri Writing Prize, the New Poets Prize and James Berry Poetry prize and longlisted in the National Poetry Competition. Asmaa’s a Cave Canem 2021 Fellow. Asmaa has been published in places like Poetry Review, The Good Journal, Ambit, Ballast and Magma. They are a resident artist at Somerset House Studios.
  
  Brother Portrait:
  Brother Portrait is a writer and artist - his words falling into form in poetry, prose, travel writing and music. He is a believer in the importance of cultural production, expression and archiving. Of writing to find and see oneself.
  
  Khari Lucas:
  Khari Lucas is a composer and writer/songwriter whose practice that reaches into several disciplines, including radio, film, and journalism.  His work explores such themes as self-exploration, self determination, love and its iterations, isolation, and black cultural context.
  
  His forthcoming record ‘Onwards!’ is set for release through London’s Touching Bass on Oct 7.
  
  S*an D. Henry-Smith:
  S*an D. Henry-Smith is a collaborative practitioner working primarily in poetry and photography, and by extension, performance and publishing. They are the author of Body Text, Flotsam Suite: a strange and precarious life, or how we chronicled the little disasters & I won’t leave the dance floor til it’s out of my system, Wild Peach, the co-author (alongside Imani Elizabeth Jackson) of Consider the Tongue, and the director of Lunar New Year. ... more

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• Bundle: 12" Vinyl & Lyric Book w photography by Gabriel Rivera

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  The 'Onwards!' bundle includes:
  - 12" vinyl version of Contour's 'Onwards!' pressed on black vinyl and with incredibly beautiful artwork shot by Gabriel Rivera.
  - A5-sized 34 pages lyric book containing all lyrics from 'Onwards' alongside exclusive additional poems and photographs by Gabriel Rivera
  
  Art Direction by Alex Rita, Errol and Contour
  Graphic design by Brian O'Tuama
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Onwards! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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• 12" Vinyl

  Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

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  12" vinyl version of Contour's 'Onwards!' pressed on black vinyl and with incredibly beautiful artwork shot by Gabriel Rivera.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Onwards! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
  ships out within 7 days

  Purchasable with gift card

  Buy Record/Vinyl   £16 GBP or more 

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