KAPOLLO — The Timestamp Archive
The Return
TOOK SOME TIME AWAY.
LOST A FEW THINGS.
FOUND A FEW TOO.
INCLUDING PIECES OF MYSELF.
STILL WORKING ON THAT PART.
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BUT THE MUSIC FOUND ITS WAY BACK.
HOME · JAMAICA
Chapter 01 — Home, Jamaica
SIXTEEN, SEVENTEEN, AND THE WHOLE SCENE KNEW MY NAME. WE WERE COLLABORATING, RECORDING, BUILDING A BUZZ BEFORE WE EVEN FINISHED HIGH SCHOOL.
Sixteen, seventeen, and di whole scene did know mi name. We a link up, a record, a build a buzz before we even done high school.
ME AND MY FRIENDS THREW THE PARTIES. REAL PROJECT X ENERGY. EVERYBODY HAD HIGH EXPECTATIONS AND THE LIMELIGHT WAS ALREADY ON US.
Me an mi bredrin keep di party dem, straight Project X ting. Everybody did expect big tings, an di spotlight did pon we aready.
LEAVING
Chapter 02 — Leaving
BEFORE I KNEW IT, I WAS NO LONGER IN JAMAICA BECAUSE MOM AND DAD SAID IT’S A NEW BEGINNING
Before mi even know it, mi nuh live a yaad again because mummy and dads a say is a new beginning.
IT WASN’T A LONG GOODBYE. IT WAS “SEE YOU IN A FEW” — DAPS AT THE GATE, A COUPLE MONTHS, THEN STRAIGHT BACK TO THE SCENE.
It neva even feel like a real goodbye. Just “likkle more” — a few month, then mi soon come back a road.
THIS WAS RIGHT BEFORE COVID. I DIDN’T KNOW IT YET — I WASN’T COMING BACK ANYTIME SOON.
Dis deh right before COVID. Mi neva know yet seh mi did a get stuck, an everyting woulda change.
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DISTANCE · ENGLAND
Chapter 03 — Distance, England
A SMALL ROOM BECAME AN ISOLATION CHAMBER. JUST ME AND A MIC, RECORDING MYSELF, TRYING TO FIND A NEW SOUND.
Wan likkle room turn inna mi isolation chamber. Just mi an di mic, a record miself, a look fi a new sound.
EVERY WEEK I HAD A NEW SOUND I WANTED TO COME BACK WITH. MAJOR PROCRASTINATION — BUT I NEVER STOPPED RECORDING.
Every week mi have a new sound mi waan come back wid. Mi did a procrastinate bad, but mi never stop record, bredda.
I WAS CHANGING AND THE MUSIC WAS CHANGING WITH ME. I JUST DIDN’T KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS NEW ME OUT THERE IN A PLACE I DIDN’T KNOW.
Mi did a change an di music change too. Mi just neva know how fi show dis new me inna one place mi nuh know.
I WATCHED EVERYONE I WAS CLOSE TO GROW UP THROUGH A SCREEN.
EVERYONE I KNOW IS THROUGH A PHONE NOW. IT WAS A WEIRD FEELING.
Everybody mi know deh through a phone now, bredda. It did feel real strange.
That's when you start realising how much human connection matters. When you isolate yourself — or you get isolated, by choice or not — it affects you.
AMERICA
Chapter 04 — America
LEFT ENGLAND. LEFT MY DAD’S HOUSE.
LANDED IN AMERICA ON MY OWN.
A pier. A ferris wheel. Somebody else’s summer.
I worked it.
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Every job was a way to buy time.
ATLANTA
Chapter 04.5 — Atlanta
MAINE HAPPENED TO ME.
ATLANTA I PICKED.
Tried a business. Tried another one.
Kept the notebook open the whole time.
I’d been writing songs for other people since England.
Nobody knew that was practice.
ARRIVAL
One bag. One month of rent.
NIGHT SHIFT
The city hums at a different pitch after 2am.
THIRD ADDRESS
Boxes you stop bothering to unpack.
THE ROOM
Where the records started again.
“I thought finding myself would feel like arriving somewhere. It didn’t. It felt more like recognizing myself again.”
still working on it.
THE SOUND TRAVELED BECAUSE I DID.
EVERY SONG LEAVES A TIMESTAMP.
A place. A person. A mistake. A good night. A bad year. A thought I couldn’t shake.
Not every record tells my whole story. But most can tell you where my head was when I made it.
Different lives. Same feelings. Maybe that’s where we meet.
THE ARCHIVE.
It grows. Each entry keeps its place, its year, and the headspace it came from.
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PLAY ON SPOTIFY →IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN
Made after the longest quiet. Less a comeback, more a light coming back on.
Final
LOST?
maybe.
GROWING?
definitely.
FOUND MYSELF?
…ask me again later.
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KAPOLLO. THE NEXT CHAPTER IS ALREADY BEING WRITTEN. NEW MUSIC SOON.
DON'T MISS THE NEXT CHAPTER.
New music. Visuals. First listens. Shows. Whatever comes next.