Acclaimed singer-songwriter/pianist Afra Kane has shared her eagerly awaited new album, Could We Be Whole, available now via Warner Music.

Produced by Kane with longtime collaborator Christophe Farine, Could We Be Whole immediately affirms the Switzerland-based artist as a captivating and chameleonic new songstress, her intimate and mysterious creative approach marked by virtuosic arrangement, seductive vocal power, and intangible magic. Today’s release is celebrated with the haunting new single, “Death In My Dreams,” available everywhere now. An official music video, directed by Kane’s frequent visual associate, filmmaker Élise Gyger, premieres today at YouTube.

“The title is very self-explanatory,” says Afra Kane. “It's based on a period last summer when I had death dreams for ten straight days. I don't know where the death dreams came from, I’ve read that it happens when you’re entering a new chapter of your life, as if there are parts of you that have to be left behind in order to move forward.”

Could We Be Whole also includes such powerfully soulful singles as “Lift Up,” “Empty Promises,” and the transcendent, gospel-infused “Invisible Cross.”

“In French you would say the record is very ‘brut,’” says Afra Kane, “almost like a rough diamond. It’s more raw than I think people would anticipate and then gets edgier as it goes along. There are some things that might sound a bit nightmarish. And then some things that are more appealing to the soul. I always try to balance my music, between making it digestible but also pushing myself outside of my comfort zone, so it's a learning experience for me as an artist as well as the listener.”

Kane will mark the arrival of Could We Be Whole with an eagerly anticipated series of international live dates, beginning March 7, 2024 with a special album release event at Berlin, Germany’s Jazz Club A-Trane. For complete details and ticket information, please visit www.afrakane.com/tour.

Born in Vicenza, Italy from Nigerian descent, Afra Kane began playing piano in order to accompany worship services at church but her nascent talent quickly led to an education in classical piano at prestigious conservatoires including Cardiff, Wales’s Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Neuchâtel, Switzerland’s Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève. Her wide-ranging musical interests soon saw Kane trying her own hand as a singer-songwriter, fusing her classical training with elements of jazz, soul, R&B, future funk, and more to craft a nuanced, cinematic sound that earned her 2019’s Montreux Jazz Talent Award from a like-minded jury that included Stanley Clarke, Chilly Gonzales, Carl Craig, and Chucho Valdés.

A series of singles drew even more applause and increasing airplay, with “Mouth Shut” named as BBC Music Introducing’s prestigious “Record of the Week.” 2019’s debut EP, Scorpio, was followed by international touring that spanned headline dates in New York City and across Europe to a sold-out residency at Hong Kong’s Café Carlyle Hong Kong. 2022 saw the arrival of Kane’s debut album, Hypersensitive, which earned her further acclaim for its spellbinding and healing songcraft, rich with expansive production, soulful sensitivity, and Kane’s truly singular lyrical perspective. Now, with Could We Be Whole, Afra Kane is poised for a milestone leap forward towards as-yet-unscaled new heights.

AFRA KANE
COULD WE BE WHOLE

Intro (feat. Hook)
Warm Up (feat. Hook)
Empty Promises
Free Pt.1
Free Pt.2
Invisible Cross
Palabras (feat. Alina Amuri)
Vision
Death In My Dreams
Lift Up
Procrastinating
Paranoïa

WRITTEN, COMPOSED, ARRANGED & PRODUCED BY AFRA KANE
RECORDED, ARRANGED & PRODUCED BY CHRISTOPHE FARINE
(EXCEPT FOR ‘INTRO’ & ‘WARM UP’ RECORDED & CO-PRODUCED BY HOOK)