Soul And Hip Hop Synchronize In Sonny Miles’ Newest EP

WUNC | By Frank Stasio,

Published August 16, 2019 at 12:13 PM EDT

Winston Salem artist Sonny Miles returns to his acoustic soul roots on his new EP.

Artist Sonny Miles is on a journey back to himself. After a year spent refining mixtape collaborations, he is dropping a new EP: “Gamma.” It is a return to his roots in acoustic soul and pays homage to the last three years he spent learning beat making and hip-hop performance.

Musician Sonny Miles joins host Frank Stasio in studio for conversation. Guitarist Noland Vannoy and bassist Daniel Maxwell join Sonny to play some of their songs live on The State of Things.

Miles considers his music part of a lineage of musicians steeped in gospel, from Prince to Funkadelic and Tyler, the Creator. Like his predecessors, he uses those sensibilities to bend and blend genres. Miles joins host Frank Stasio in studio for conversation and live performance. He is joined by bandmates Noland Vannoy on electric guitar and Daniel Maxwell on bass.

Sonny Miles performs Friday, Aug. 16 at 9 p.m. at Pantana Bob’s in Chapel Hill. He also performs with his other projectDotwav Media in Raleigh on Monday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. for WKNC’s Concert on the Lawn on the campus of North Carolina State University.