When Casey Lowery's grandfather died in 2023, he left him a caravan - an old cottage on the English coast that held a story Casey hadn't thought about before. But when he arrived there, moving in temporarily with his dog and moving away from the metropolitan music industry in which he had spent over half a decade trying to find meaning, it sparked something in him. It was there, in the company of retirees and nature, that the final pieces of lekkerland, his debut album, came together.
The album, Casey says, is his attempt to "get in touch with my past a little bit" and a reflection on the kind of community he was once promised by a music industry system that he is trying to reshape and make work for him in a more humble, loving form.
"Lekker" is an African term Casey picked up on the street, meaning "something that pleases". After years of refocusing, Casey has found a way to make something that brings him as much joy as it does others.
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