Sampha returned to his Apple Music radio show Wave Theory and offered up a special treat alongside guest Romy (of The xx). I, for one, didn’t know Sampha had an Apple Music radio show, but apparently whenever it airs he offers up fun treats like a cover of a relatively underrated André 3000 song from 2018. Remember when 3 Stacks dropped those songs on Mother’s Day? Long before he was making flute albums with LA’s psychedelic jazz community he dropped a two-pack of tracks, one of which was called “Me & My (To Bury My Parents).” It was written before his folks passed away, but recorded after they died. André handles piano and vocals on the original, and Sampha and Romy have now taken a whack at it.
Sampha also shared a long statement on the process of this cover. The latter part of the statement read: “In the studio session we did a cover of Andre 3000’s ‘Me & My (To Bury Your Parents)’ and yeah that song really hit me deep because I’d made my own song called, ‘(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano’ which was about my mother and I kind of felt, I wouldn’t say as guilty but I questioned, you know, releasing and writing a song that was so sort of personal to me.
“But at the time I really couldn’t think about anything else, it was just what was coming out of me. Hearing one of my favorite musicians also meditate on his feelings of loss and just how that relationship with your parents can be it made me feel (kind of) heard and okay to express myself in this way. Not necessarily everybody has to do but that’s how I felt like processing some of my grief and, I feel like Romy has been in a similar place so it was a special song to cover together.”
Check out the full statement in an Instagram post below. If you have Apple Music, stream the cover here.
