R.LUM.R Announces Debut EP & First Ever UK Show

R.LUM.R has announced his debut EP ‘AFTERIMAGE’, set to arrive on August 11th on PRMD. To coincide with the release R.LUM.R will be playing his first ever UK show at London’s Seabright Arms on July 20th. 

His recent single, Frustrated, has reached over 18 million plays and it's a beautiful representation of his soulful R&B vocals mixed with some cool electronics. Check out its official music video below!

A native of Bradenton, Florida, R.LUM.R has a background and set of skills like few others. He’s extremely well-grounded in old school R&B and jazz since birth, largely because he was only allowed to listen to the music his mother liked when growing up (think Sade, Anita Baker and George Benson). 

And despite the previous R&B mentions, don’t make the mistake of limiting him to just that genre because there’s much more to him: he’s a classically trained acoustic guitarist who grew up with the likes of Julian Bream and Christopher Parkening as potential role models. He was completely enamored with anime classics like Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist and Outlaw Star and studied Japanese as a second language at Florida State University.

Speaking of his music he says,

I'm a big fan of the song and of songwriting. Obviously it isn’t in the traditional sense of what people think of when they think of a singer-songwriter's music—but that’s where I started, and that’s the same process I go through writing songs.

How would he best describe his music in terms of genre?