And I Have Been
2022 studio album by Benjamin Clementine
And I Have Been is the third studio album by English composer, musician, and poet Benjamin Clementine. It was released through his own label Preserve Artists on 28 October 2022. The album was entirely written, performed, produced, and mixed by Clementine. The album was promoted by the singles "Copening", "Weakend", "Genesis" and "Delighted".
Background and recording
Clementine's second studio album I Tell a Fly was released in July 2017 to critical acclaim, but its stylistic deviation also polarized listeners. In 2019, Clementine was conferred Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. In 2021, Clementine made his acting debut in Denis Villeneuve's epic science fiction film Dune.
And I Have Been was conceived during the COVID-19 pandemic while Clementine was living up in the Santa Monica Mountains and in the small town of Ojai, California. In a press release Clementine said he was "confronted with a lot of lessons, complications and epiphanies to do with sharing his path with someone special" during the pandemic. The album was entirely written, performed, produced, and mixed by Clementine.
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