Ando San takes the march for himself
Ando San's second release for Sumerian Records is a single about destiny, out now, with his first London headline show on Friday.
BY JOLT Staff · OCT 15 2026 · 1 min readMarch For Me is out now on Sumerian Records. It announces where Ando San is going and asks no permission on the way.
The records before it came steadily: Schemin Season in 2020, Sometimes It Be Like That in 2021, Bipolar in 2022, Seeing Pastures in 2023. Sumerian signed him after that run, and Hype Man / Triggas was the first release of the deal. A UK tour supporting Don Broco followed, and on 16 October he plays his first London headline show at The Lower Third. US dates with Periphery come after.
“March For Me is a reclamation song for me. It's about me rising to where I need to be, and my destiny as an artist to grow and be truthfully and authentically myself. I was really inspired by Tyler, The Creator's album 'Chromakopia'; the whole album has this militant feel to it, and I wanted to embrace that feeling of power and authority.”
San has said March For Me is a reclamation, about rising to where he needs to be and his destiny as an artist, and that he wrote toward the militant feel of Tyler, The Creator's Chromakopia, its power and authority. That is a stance more than a sound.
One track carries an album's worth of ambition, and hip-hop built on declaration lives or dies on the delivery matching the claim. This one has staked everything on the announcement. Friday's room at The Lower Third is the first test of it.
It is for anyone who likes their hip-hop front-facing, and for the crowd that has followed four records into a Sumerian deal and a Periphery support slot.
What does not work is the claim measured against the format. Destiny needs a body of work behind it. This is the second release since the signing, and a single can only hand you the first step of the march it keeps announcing.
The timing is earned: the headline show, the Periphery dates, a label giving him room. That holds March For Me at a 3.5, enough to keep the momentum and short of proof he has arrived. Friday will say more than the track does.
