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British producer, songwriter, and guitarist Beau Diako follows debut single "Buttermilk" and sophomore offering "Flutter" with his third and final single "Flamingo" ft. Jordan Rakei, and his debut EP "Flutter".

You may recognise his specific sound on tracks by Tennyson, Lido, Galimatias and more, or as 1/2 of Zoology. With his solo project, Diako blends his colourful and unique guitar style with a sound palette of indie, jazz, and neo-soul to create something truly refreshing.

"Flutter was built throughout the last year and a half as a new start for myself. After a few previous projects and years of music with other artists, I felt that I finally needed to put something out under my own name.

Most of the songs started from small guitar ideas that I would try and grow the production around as naturally as I could, influencing the name ‘Flutter’ as I felt it reflected the light and floaty sound of the music and guitars.I’m fortunate enough to have some extremely talented friends from all over, who I’m so honoured and grateful to feature throughout." - Beau Diako

TRACK BY TRACK

BUTTERMILK (FEAT. EMAWK)

Buttermilk is meant to capture the sound and feeling of a calming nostalgia. The track came about naturally at home on a sunny, peaceful day whilst mindlessly layering guitars, and was finished later in the year after having some bad buttermilk pancakes in Berlin.

I wrote about leaving, in more ways than one. I heard the track not long after I moved to New York, so I guess it brought the feeling out of me - emawk

CUTE FT. TOTU

When Beau sent me this instrumental I got really excited and started recording vocals at home straight away. The melodies came quickly, but the lyrics arrived much much later. I sent Beau my idea for the chorus before it actually had any lyrics, which was a really bad idea because he ended up getting quite attached to my mumble singing, and even when I finally sent him the complete vocals with lyrics, he preferred the mumble!

In the end we came to a compromise, keeping some of the mumble vocals in there with the real ones. It kinda sounds nice like that so everyone wins - Totu

FLUTTER (FEAT. RAELEE NIKOLE)

For Flutter I wanted to create a track that could be subtle and dramatic at the same time, with bright imagery of butterflies, flowers and fireworks. I decided to stick with orchestral sounds over some smooth chords and centred the structure around a cheesy guitar solo in the middle.

I wrote the lyrics while walking through Elysian Park in East LA. I put the track on repeat and let it be the soundtrack to everything happening around me: trees swaying in the wind, the mid-morning sunlight on the hills, pairs of butterflies that seemed to be waltzing in the sky.. - Raelee Nikole

FLAMINGO FT. JORDAN RAKEI

Flamingo is probably the closest I can get to making a pop song. It was written quite a few years ago and was one of the first full tracks I made and produced. I was still in a zone of trying to make music that was bright and accessible after a previous project, and wanted something that people could move to.A few months later I sent this track to my friend Jordan Rakei after we had been writing for his album Origin, and he came back with the perfect vocal.

Beau has always been the secret piece to a lot of other people's music, and it's so good to jump on his debut release! It's his time to shine!- Jordan Rakei

BIRDSONG FT. CLAUDIA BOUVETTE

I met Beau through a common friend (Connor Seidel) who we both made music with. Beau came to spend a week in Montreal with Connor and I to write on my music project. He told me about his own EP that he was working on at that time and asked me if I was willing to jam and throw ideas on « Birdsong ». I was hooked right away by the tropical theme, and was also really inspired by the title. So I decided to write about a mother’s boy being too scared to jump off the nest and fly by himself - Claudia Bouvette

SUNN

A short and sweet instrumental which serves to close off the EP in style.