Shungu’s Faith in the Unknown album has dropped as well as the video for his ZEKEULTRA collaboration, “Butterfly.” The artist and producer put together his vision with a collective that included Fly Anakin, Fatima, Pink Siifu, Chester Watson, Liv.e, Navy Blue, Maxo, dreamcastmoe, Goya Gumbani, Ruqqiyah, and ZEKEULTRA. Shungu’s sound floats along a singular spectrum of jazzy rap and classic soulful grooves. The Brussels-based creative admits to making some daring choices on the album in a press statement.

“The process of making this album took time, and it grew into something very human, rooted in trust, patience, and creative risk. It’s also a kind of introduction to a scene I feel close to, a space where experimentation meets vulnerability. I hope the record resonates beyond the surface and invites people to reflect, feel, and question. These songs are conversations, not just between me and the artists, but between worlds, eras, and ways of feeling.”

Shungu’s palette moves fluidly between Chester Watson’s cafe-worthy poetry on “The Thin Line” and the Maxo-assisted cosmic harp string-supported title track rap. Shungu is still repping the worldwide underground six years after his debut project A Black Market Album, came out. It was four years ago that he released the Detroit-techno indebted Take The Evil Spirit Away. Faith In The Unknown is a warmer record with its overt human touch. It’s music for lounging, driving and chilling. 

Producer ShunGu makes his video debut with “Talk To the Mass,” featuring Fly Anakin, Goya Gumbani, and Fatima. Anakin and Gumbani flow with ShunGu’s jazzy orchestral beat that gets a lift of R&B from Fatima. The single is from his forthcoming project that will be released on Lex Records in the fall. He made a statement about Mackai Sharp directing the video: “This was the first time I ever made a proper music video for one of my tracks, so it felt like a special moment for me, especially since I’m not at the beginning of my career. I fully trusted Mackai to bring the vision of this first single to life.” ShunGu appears at the beginning and end of the video with his collaborators during a video shoot that seemed destined considering that Fatima and Gumbani were there in the studio unexpectedly. Watch the video for “Talk To The Mass,” and stay tuned for ShunGu’s fall release.