Marcus Gad‘s new single is a prayer of thanks to the earth, but it carries an expectation: that what the land gives, the listener has to account for. The New Caledonian singer, working between Nouméa and France, reunites on “Fruit and Flower” with Paris-based producer Tamal, his collaborator on Enter A Space and Brave New World. It follows January’s “Where Mi Come From” as the second track from a forthcoming album.

Tamal builds the riddim in classic roots form: a low, steady bassline, one-drop drums, keys and guitar widening the arrangement while keeping it grounded. Gad leans into his measured vocal delivery, shaping the refrain as a repeated blessing addressed to the father and the mother for what they provide. The sense of pressure that has marked his work since Chanting remains, carried here through devotion to land and lineage.

Released via Gadda Productions and High Records under licence to Big Scoop Records, the track arrives with a visualiser filmed in New Caledonia, keeping its point of origin visible even as the release feeds into a European run of dates, closing at Le Trianon in Paris on 30 October.

Stream and listen to “Fruit and Flower” HERE