Nick Hakim has announced a new studio album, WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD. It’s out May 15 via ATO. Hakim has also shared the new song “QADIR.” Watch its music video, directed by Nelson Nance, below.
Hakim wrote “QADIR” for a late friend. “If I really sink into a recording, I don’t want it to end,” he said in a statement. “[‘QADIR’] is repetitive and hypnotizing, like a trance—that’s intentional.
The song is my ode to him. It’s my attempt to relate to how he must have been feeling.” Find Hakim’s statement on WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD below.
Hakim’s last album Green Twins was released back in 2017. Earlier this year, he appeared on the Onyx Collective single “My Funny Valentine,” a re-imagining of the classic jazz standard.
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