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B of Briz

@bofbriz.bsky.social

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Rapper, producer, womxn from Bristol. Delivering philosophically-inclined rap to you from the future. https://linktr.ee/bofbriz

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B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’m really proud to say that my new EP, ‘Solace’ is out now!
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
(or wherever you get music!)
I’ve been trying to offer a Summer of ‘Solace’, releasing songs from this EP….
A sweet, earnest, small offering of alt hip hop from Bristol.
❤️🌱🎧
#musicsky #newmusic #music

Solace, by B of Briz

bofbriz.bandcamp.com

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 4h

“She’s taken under solace,
Into the library of the Cosmopolis”
(from my song 'Taken under Solace') bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
I’m a recovered (!?!) hyperlexic, and so this metaphor appealed to me, this idea the library of a city of souls.
#newmusicfriday #musicsky #alternativehiphop

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 22h

“She was loved, part of the universe,
Part of its lullaby and its shout,
Serene, no longer full of doubt.”
(from my song, 'Taken under Solace')I loved this sonic representation of the different vibes of the universe!
❤️🌱
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
#emergingartist #alternativehiphop

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 1d

🙏🙏🙏 thank you!

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 2d

Shame thrives in the dark. Light and honesty and compassion banish it.
❤️🌱☀️
#alternativehiphop #emergingartist #newmusic #ukhiphop #ukmusic

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 2d

“In an end, she experiences relief from the weight of all that’s happened,
All the ways carrying it left her saddened, maddened, flattened,
Fall away, like the dawn of a new day,
The sun’s rays evaporating off her shame along their way,”
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/track/taken-...
#musicsky #musiciansky

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 2d

Ever grateful for the support of @amazingradio.com - super excited to be on this lush playlist - 'Hip Hop Heat' amazingradio.com/profile/jmjh...
Well worth your time, ears, hearts, minds
🌱❤️🎧
#emergingartists #newmusic #hiphop #ukhiphop #alternativehiphop #conscioushiphop #chillhiphop

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B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! 🙏❤️💫

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so glad to be sharing my new EP, Solace' (out now wherever you get music!)
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
There’s a term I’ve only ever heard in Buffy, ‘comfortidor’ - this EP is me serving comfortidor!
❤️🌱
#newmusic #ukmusic #ukhiphop #hiphopmusic #alternativehiphop #emergingartist

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 5d

But if we’re actively looking for choices that reflect how brave, how honest, how compassionate we’d like to be, that has to be something.
❤️🌱
#contemplative

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 5d

“Full of light and love and good as her pathfinder” from 'Taken under Solace' -https://bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
We live in a world of sucky choices....
🧵
#newmusic #emergingartist #alternativehiphop #hiphop #ukhiphop #conscioushiphop #lyrıcsvideo #bristolmusic #chillhiphop

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for sharing 🙏📻 to be wonderfully strange is definitely part of my mission statement! 🌱

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 7d

Anyway, thanks to everyone who takes the time to publicly love music and art- for small, independent artists, often, other than the joy of making it, the joy of knowing it meant something to you is the reward for sharing it! Every like, comment, share is encouraging and meaningful to us! ❤️🙏

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 7d

This means so much to me, when someone finds my music and really connects with it.
Honestly, sharing it, promoting it, it can feel really ego-y?
But then I remember, this spark of love and familiarity I feel when I discover art that speaks to me, i want to pass that feeling on
#musiciansky

LeGuin's Blade Teachings 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘 @musicofmar.bsky.social · 7d

OMG THIS IS SOME OF THE BEST CHILL HIP HOP OUT THERE, AAAAAH

I'm obsessed

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 7d

It's #bandcampfriday everyone! A most excellent day to go and buy my new EP 'Solace'
❤️🌱
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
It's a little slice of #alternativehiphop making it's way to you from #bristol
#emergingartist #ukhiphop #ukmusic #musicsky #hiphop #newmusic

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 7d

I'm so glad you found it, this made my day! 🙏❤️🌱

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 7d

It's #bandcampfriday everyone! A most excellent day to go and buy my new EP 'Solace'
❤️🌱
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
It's a little slice of #alternativehiphop making it's way to you from #bristol
#emergingartist #ukhiphop #ukmusic #musicsky #hiphop #newmusic

B is framed by trees and sky. She's wearing a hood crocheted from vibrant pastels, a black velvet facemask, and ornately decorated ski-style goggles. Her dirty blonde curly hair is hella messy.

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 8d

I’m so happy to have shared my new EP, ‘Solace’
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
This EP track, ‘Taken under Solace’, is kind of my take on the idea of grace. A concept I never really 'got', until I did.
#newmusic #alternativehiphop #ukhiphop #ukmusic #conscioushiphop #emergingartist #musicsky

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 8d

... in new understanding, new insight, new futures now on the horizon...
There's past versions of us dying all the time, and new versions finding life...
❤️🌱
#newmusic #ukmusic #hiphop #ukhiphop #alternativehiphop #emergingartists #emergingartist #bristol #bristolmusic #lyricsvideos

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 8d

Still giving tracks from my new EP 'Solace' some space online to breathe and find voice (out wherever you find music).
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
As well as being about death, ‘Taken under Solace’ is also about those moments we’re reborn in this life...🧵

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 10d

If you like (or even love?) it, please share it with a friend... I'd love it if it could reach more people who need it!
❤️🌱
#ukmusic #newmusic #hiphop #ukhiphop #alternativehiphop #emergingartist #independentartist #womeninmusic #musicsky #musiciansky

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 10d

Still sending my new EP 'Solace' out into the world - it's out now wherever you get music 🎧
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/album/solace
🫶
#ukmusic #newmusic #hiphop #ukhiphop #alternativehiphop #emergingartist #independentartist #womeninmusic #musicsky #musiciansky

A portrait of B in woodland. She's wearing a grey hooded top. she wears crocheted matching hood and fingerless gloves, in a rainbow of pastel colours. Her dirty blonde, curly hair tumbles out from under the hood. She's wearing a black velvet mask, and an ornately decorated pair of ski-style goggles.

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 10d

One of the inspirations for this comes from The Shins’ song ‘New Slang’. They had a lyric ‘hope it’s right when you die, old and bony’, and this is an extrapolation from that idea.
#newslang #theshins #musicalinspirations

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 10d

This song ‘Taken under Solace’ from my new EP ‘Solace’ is obviously at one level a little death prayer - a wish that any necessary endings be as painless as possible.
bofbriz.bandcamp.com/track/taken-...
❤️🌱
#newmusic #alternativehiphop #grief #emergingartist #musicsky

B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 11d

I released this EP a couple weeks ago open.spotify.com/album/10c5iq...

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Sarah O’Connell @sarahoconnellshow.com · 13d

Already at 1.6 million. The entire UK should sign this and send them a strong message. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

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B of Briz @bofbriz.bsky.social · 14d

I’m here for you lit-rap brats who like to read your raps! Just put up the lyrics vid for one of the tracks from my new EP, ‘Solace’ – it’s called ‘Taken under solace’. I hope you enjoy it.
❤️🌱
youtu.be/r2jpWojlIm0
#newmusic #ukmusic #ukhiphop #musicsky #alternativehiphop #emergingartist #lyricsvideo

Taken under solace - lyrics vid

YouTube video by B of Briz