Jasmine Gardosi, Dan Whitehouse, and Ryan Pinson come from different corners of the UK music world. Gardosi is best known as a slam champion and former Birmingham Poet Laureate, a performer who merges spoken word, beatboxing, and movement into something closer to theater than page poetry. Whitehouse has built a reputation as a songwriter and sound artist, folding folk and ambient textures into sparse, reflective records. Pinson, a producer, drummer, and multi-instrumentalist, has worked across jazz, rock, and electronic projects, and here takes a more visible role as collaborator. On their first joint release, the three meet in the middle.
(They Say It’s Like) Riding A Bike leans into jazz-hop and lo-fi production, but the pull comes from the details: bicycle spokes turned into percussion, breath pushed through Gardosi’s beatboxing, Pinson’s drums and synth textures, and Whitehouse’s guitar and piano filling the gaps with a steady calm. The track doesn’t disguise its metaphor, resilience as a ride, wobbling and restarting: but its delivery is what sells it. Gardosi’s spoken cadence locks in with the beat, while Pinson and Whitehouse shape the song’s grounding with live and electronic instrumentation.
The single grows out of their Black Country Bikes: Music In Motion project, which brought community voices into the writing process. You can still hear that workshop spirit in the finished piece: part reflection, part encouragement, made to be shared.
For sync, its mix of lo-fi beats, spoken word, and organic textures would fit easily in mindfulness playlists, short films, or documentaries dealing with recovery, resilience, or community.
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