Sampha carried out a reworked rendition of Steve Lacy‘s ‘Dangerous Behavior’ for BBC Radio 1’s Stay Lounge Month.

The singer-songwriter selected the 2022 hit as the quilt for his Stay Lounge Mouth look final week, throughout which he sang and performed the piano over a scorching, pared-back drum beat.

He additionally performed his personal track ‘Solely’ from new album ‘Lahai’, which got here out final week.

Take a look at the performances beneath.

Sampha’s rendition of ‘Dangerous Behavior’ is certainly one of many covers to return out of BBC Radio 1’s Stay Lounge month, which additionally noticed Usher cowl Daniel Caesar and H.E.R.’s ‘Finest Half’ and Troye Sivan rework Billie Eilish‘s ‘What Was I Made For‘.

Doja Cat was the ultimate visitor for the month-long section this October, who lined Hiatus Kaiyote’s ‘Purple Room’.

Forward of the discharge of Sampha’s new album, he opened up about how he wished to “interrogate spirituality” on the LP.

He began engaged on the album in 2019 earlier than “plenty of issues occurred” and he welcomed his first daughter in 2020. “I turned a dad,” he defined in a current Q&A. “I used to be simply questioning about life and massive questions, feeling the necessity to maintain onto one thing or painting a chicken’s eye view of my life as a result of I felt like each day was going into each day.”

With ‘Lahai’, Sampha stated that he wished to “interrogate spirituality” and was “questioning” all the pieces on the time of constructing the album.

“It’s fairly existential turning into a father,” he stated. “I really feel like, for me, music is only a place the place I can go to learn the way I’m feeling on sure issues. It’s a therapeutic factor for me.”

In July, Sampha shocked his followers with the discharge of his first single in six years, ‘Spirit 2.0’. It marked his first launch since his 2017 Mercury Prize-winning debut album, ‘Course of’.