Rose White is releasing her most honest record yet, "A Night With A Sazerac"
- FLEX Team
- Apr 17
- 2 min read
A Night With A Sazerac arrives April 17th, and the timing is everything. Rose White's sophomore EP is a record about the past, released by someone who has genuinely left it there.
Written entirely by White across a period of hurt and upheaval, and recorded live in the room with producer Ollie Clark in around two takes, the EP carries the warmth and grain of something captured rather than constructed. Joshua Woolf handled the mix and master.
Soul is the gravitational centre, but jazz and Latin colour drift in at the edges, giving the record a looseness that serves its subject matter well. These are songs about a life lived at full volume, confusion and recklessness included, and they sound like it.
"It celebrates and mourns a part of my life that was fun, reckless, confusing, painful, loved and finally concluded in self-reflection and change," White says of the collection. The arc is real: songs that began in anxiety and arrive, by the EP's close, somewhere close to peace. "Perfection is overrated and life is not black and white," she adds. It's the kind of thing that sounds simple until you realise how long it takes most people to actually believe it.
White's story has always been defined by that kind of earned conviction. Polish-born and London-arrived at twenty, with £300, two suitcases, and no pre-existing network, she learned the city the way most serious artists do, through the open mic circuit, through persistence, through slowly filling bigger rooms. A former professional ballroom dancer, she carries a performer's instinct for presence and timing into everything she does. Her voice, husky and unhurried, has invited comparisons to Joy Crookes, Paloma Faith, and Olivia Dean, though what it most resembles is simply itself: direct, emotionally spacious, built for the kind of songs that ask something of the listener.
The live show bearing the EP's name sold out, and returns by popular demand on April 23rd at London's Lower Third. A 2024 Next Level Award from Help Musicians provided the financial foundation to record the project properly. Support from Global Soul, Sofar Sounds, Jodie's Bryant Discover Live, Under The Radar, and Success Express has continued to build the groundwork beneath her.
What A Night With A Sazerac represents, more than any single song or moment, is an artist who has caught up with her own potential. The record was written in the thick of things. It is being released from the other side, by someone who knows the difference.
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