{"product_id":"dont-turn-the-lights-on-yet","title":"Don't Turn The Lights On Yet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf this is church… then why we leaving now?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDon't Turn The Lights On Yet\u003c\/strong\u003e is NOVASE15 ft. ROZ BAPTISTE's debut single — the original mix, warm, urgent and communal, an escalation entirely vocal and harmonic, 124 BPM, F minor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMusic Track Story\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon't Turn The Lights On Yet is NOVASE15 and ROZ BAPTISTE's debut pairing — a soulful house record that runs at a steady four-on-the-floor from the first bar and never once pauses for a build. The lift is entirely vocal and harmonic: a spoken intro over a bare groove, an acoustic gospel piano entering after the intro, a chorus that lifts hard, a breakdown stripped to piano and voice alone, and a final chorus where church organ and full choir finally arrive together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eROZ sings all of it — warm, slightly raspy, world-weary without cynicism, landing every note rather than climbing to it. She can run the full gospel range and the arrangement never once lets her, which is exactly what keeps this on the underground side of the line. It's the last twenty minutes of the night: the house lights are coming up, the night is being ended by somebody who doesn't care, and the person singing is refusing — not out of hedonism but because this room is the only place all week that's worked. “You don't know what I been through, all week, all day — this beat the only thing that made me okay.” The breakdown says the rest: “I came here broken, nobody knew my name, but in this music I don't feel the same.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe line that makes it more than a party record is “If this is church — then why we leaving now?” — and it isn't a metaphor the song invented. House came directly out of gospel and out of rooms that were genuine sanctuary; the organ and the call-and-response choir aren't decoration, they're the record telling you where it's from.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNOVASE15 produces the whole record and opens it flat and close — a bare spoken line, unperformed — before handing the rest of it entirely to ROZ. It's the furthest she's ever moved from her own catalogue, going back up her own family tree to the New Jersey and New York house her brother's garage records descended from, and the first time she's put another artist at the centre of a room she made. This one draws directly on gospel and on the house tradition it grew out of — living traditions belonging to real people and real rooms. We say plainly that we're visitors in them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NOVASE15 ft. ROZ BAPTISTE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53659426226504,"sku":"FARA-DONTTURNTHELIGHTSONYET-MP3","price":0.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/6394\/2984\/files\/fara090-dont-turn-the-lights-on-yet-cover_373d38cd-711c-4089-aa56-7ecf8aab1192.png?v=1786024206","url":"https:\/\/spatialx.media\/products\/dont-turn-the-lights-on-yet","provider":"SPATIALx Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}