Gramps Morgan Releases New Surprise EP: ‘Deeper’
Exactly 14 months after he released his Positive Vibration album, which copped a Best Reggae Album Grammy nomination, Gramps Morgan has dropped a new six-track surprise EP, simply titled Deeper.
The Reggae singer made the announcement of the official release on his Instagram page this morning, noting that: “My new e.p DEEPER is available on all digital platforms now!!!!”
The songs featured on the EP are: A Moon To Remember, So In Love With You, Butterfly, Runaway Bay (Acoustic), People Like You (Acoustic), Wash The Tears (Acoustic).
In a recent Gleaner article, Gramps is quoted as saying that the new EP is really a follow-up treat for his fans who supported him up to his Positive Vibration which was his third solo album.
“It is strictly a project as a gift to my fans and to show what we in the Jamaican fraternity are capable of doing within the global music scale,” he had explained.
“On this project, I also wanted to express myself on the single, Butterfly. Many people, for many years, don’t know how to let go of their loved ones in many different ways whether they pass on or watching a child grow up,” he is quoted as saying, while alluding to the passing of his father Reggae icon, Denroy Morgan, back in March this year.
According to Gramps, 2022 has so far been “sweet and sour all at once” as he has taken the loss of his father, who was his best friend, very hard.
In January this year, Gramps, who was born in the United States, had started the year in a joyful mood, announcing that he had received his Jamaican citizenship at long last and it felt good to now have a Jamaican passport.
Last November, Gramps’ Positive Vibration was nominated in the Best Reggae Album category alongside Spice’s 10, Sean Paul’s Live N Livin, Jesse Royal’s Royal, Etana’s Pamoja and American band SOJA’s Beauty in the Silence, the eventual winners.
Recorded between Kingston, Nashville and Toronto, that 15-track album’s sounds are unique due to Gramps’s use of the Jamaican banjo on the Mento tracks and Nashville guitars.
Dancehall megastar Shaggy, his friend for more than 25 years, also appears on the track titled Float Ya Boat, while his Gramps’ late father appeared on a track called Secret to Life.
Weeks ago Gramps and his brothers Mojo and Peetah announced that vial their Grammy Award-winning Reggae band Morgan Heritage, they will embark on their first full-scale African tour, come October, and have plans to collaborate with some of the “freshest and biggest talents in each country”, to produce a collaborative album.
The Down by the River singers had explained that the tour, which is dubbed the Island Vibes Africa Tour, will travelling across several countries in West, Central, East and Southern Africa for performances, over an eight-week period.
The tour is set to get underway on Sunday October 2, in Johannesburg South Africa, before moving to Kigali in Rwanda on Saturday October 8; Friday October 14 in Harare, Zimbabwe and Kadoma in that same country, the following day.
Then, on Saturday October 22, the band will perform in Lilongwe, Malawi before moving on to in Adis Ababa the Ethiopian capital on the 29th. The tour will then move to Accra, Ghana on Saturday November 12 and close at Pamplemousses in Mauritius on November 26.
The upcoming African tour is being produced and managed by RAVE, a Pan-African live events company, and Morgan Heritage’s CTBC Music Group.
Gramps and his brothers have also stated that their stint in the Motherland, will be a gift to the people of the continent, as Africa has always been a home to them, which is clearly demonstrated in the immense support they have received there, over the years.