Introducing Mr. Melody and Rider Shafique aka Black Canvas, a hot new project produced and co-written with Chubby J from Pressure Drop. Their debut album “Rise” is instilled with a passionate attitude that transgresses today’s genres and boundaries. Incorporating the roots of Reggae and stems of dubstep, hip hop, breaks and drum n bass intertwined with a soulful sensibility, which manifests itself as an individual originality. Black Canvas make music straight from the heart, music with consciousness. “Rise” is simply complex, inspired by life, naturally grown and delivered personally. This album is a distillation of experience, gained first hand from living in ‘the land of the blind’. The essence of the music is love and faith, courage, tenderness, generosity and sacrifice. Black Canvas strive to follow a righteous path and rise above the pitfalls of everyday life. This is the recurrent theme throughout the album, eloquently recounting everyday battles with themselves and the society that surrounds them. Their debut LP conveys a straightforward but refined musical message of defiant realism. Collaborations on “Rise” include Chase & Status who lend their trade mark drum n bass talents on “Broken Dreams” whilst breakbeat wonder boy Ed Solo gets down and dirty with his co-production of “We Fear Not”. Supporting the album on remix duties are Zed Bias, Black Grass and Pressure Drop. Mr. Melody and Rider Shafique, both hail from the UK and grew up in its inner cities, immersed in Caribbean culture, cutting their teeth in and around the reggae music scene. Melody has worked along side the production duo of Pressure Drop, featuring on two of their LPs, namely ‘Elusive’ and ‘Tread’, Melody is perhaps best known for his vocals on the classic breaks anthem ‘Warrior Charge’. Later Melody featured on Adam Freeland’s ‘Now and Them’ album too. Whilst Shafique had his debut 12” ‘Rider (Rhyme Provider’)’ released on One Eye Records and has since collaborated on various recordings with Pressure Drop, Black Grass, Chase & Status and Al Haca amongst others.