Monolith Cocktail Blog

Our continuing partnership with the leading Italian culture/music site and platform Kalporz. This month, a briefing on Kalporz cover artist Nourished By Time.

At regular points during the year the Monolith Cocktail shares posts from our Italian pen pals at Kalporz. The site recently celebrated its 25^th anniversary – more or less coinciding with our very own 15th anniversary. Here’s to longevity, which isn’t easy in the unstable online world.

This month, the editorial team give us a briefing on burgeoning R&B, soul house star Nourished By Time; the cover star and spotlighted artist on Kalporz this August.

Nourished by Time sounds like ’80s music, but it belongs to an alternate timeline, where Reagan’s opulence and carefree attitude give way to a more abrasive, convoluted, and disenchanted interpretation of time and things. Or perhaps it’s simply a highly accomplished postmodern reinterpretation of those sounds and that vast aesthetic—R&B, soul, house—with the curious paradox that the eclectic Baltimore musician never truly lived through that era.

Marcus Brown, the producer who gave life to the Nourished by Time project in 2019, is in fact just thirty years old, and with the release of his next work “The Passionate Ones” (XL Recordings), for which he earned the cover of our August issue, he is destined to make the big leap – the most attentive will have noticed his name among those already announced for the next edition of C2C , and this too must mean something.

But these mere CV issues aside, we’ve been won over by all of the artist’s recent releases, most notably his debut LP “Erotic Probiotic 2” from 2023 and the EP “Catching Chickens” from the following year, which contain timeless tunes like this , this , and this .

With the release of “The Passionate Ones”, scheduled for August 22nd , we can only expect great things. Even judging by the singles released so far, which show Brown in truly dazzling form. Judge for yourself.