ATO No Caroline ( Live), Majestic Session

Taken from his latest EP SIDE A, ATO performs a live version of the lead track No Caroline. As a child ATO spent a lot of time on his own and would use his imagination as a means of communication through difficult times. These periods of time spent came as the UKborn rapper travelled the globe alongside his Danish mother as she pursued an education across continents, visiting South Korea, South Africa, and New York before he reached secondary school age. It was basically just the two of us and I found home in her, ATO says now, looking back on an early childhood defined by freedom and exploration. It was only when he settled in York, a historically storied but predominantly white city in the north of England, that ATO began to feel unwelcome. Singled out for racist abuse at school, ATO would escape into writing lyrics and making music as a means of transporting himself to a parallel universe. I found it difficult to negotiate these feelings on my own, he says looking back. Race became something