At the heart of YTK’s transporting new album Navarasa : Nine Emotions is the Indian subcontinent’s navarasa; the nine (nava) emotions or sentiments (rasa) of the arts. This central unifying underpinning is a centuries-old organizing principle and directly connects an emotion to each song on the album: Sukhe Phool – Karuna (sorrow), The Shearing’s Not for You – Bibhatsya (disgust), Thumri Bhairavi – Raudra (anger), Westlin’ Winds – Adbutha (surprise/wonder), Song for Oda – Shringara (love/beauty), Theo’s – Hasya (laughter), Twa Brothers – Bhayanaka (terror/fear), Waliyan da Raja – Veera (heroism/courage), Darbari – Shantha (peace/tranquility). The first track to be…
Author: Elicit Magazine
This December, the ladies of Last Import will be hitting the road and heading down South for their recently-announced Hollywood Forever Tour! To celebrate the occasion, the band has released their latest single, ‘Hollywood Forever’, a fiery new track sure to be haunting radio waves all over the country! The ‘Hollywood Forever Tour’ will kick-off on December 15th in Chicago, IL at Subterranean, take the ladies all the way down to Stubbs Indoors in Austin, TX, and back up to to play with Kansas City locals Radkey at Record Bar before their homecoming show with Bad Bad Hats & Ratboys in First Avenue’s mainroom on December 21st! The ‘Hollywood Forever Tour’ comes…
As fall draws in, Villagers are pleased to announce The Sunday Walker EP. The four tracks collected here are primarily songs recorded around the time of The Art Of Pretending To Swim sessions – Conor O’Brien’s acclaimed fourth album, released last year. The EP is available to stream in full now, with a vinyl release due on November 22nd. Stream The Sunday Walker EP HERE In Conor’s words: “The tracks that fell through the cracks; it turns out they had their own story to tell. The Sunday Walker EP is a collection of lost songs as much as it is an emotional arc. Songs of loss and songs of realization.…
Marking the third release from his upcoming project, Syzygy 02, Opiuo links with Texture Like Sun to release ‘System Empire’ – out Monday, November 4. Marrying the powerful vocals of Texture Like Sun and experimental sounds of Opiuo, ‘System Empire’ is thunderous and rhythmic track that leaves listeners wanting more. By blending horns, electric synthesizers and funky drum patterns, Opiuo produces a trailblazing single ahead of his forthcoming project. BUY/STREAM ‘SYSTEM EMPIRE’ HERE PRE-ORDER SYZYGY 02 HERE Currently sitting at over 26 million Spotify streams,Opiuo is a producer who is known to experiment with new sounds. He has lead the pack as a founder of a new signature sound and continues to push boundaries in…
Today, Irish-born, Berlin-based artist CROOK shares his second single of 2019, “my bf (kinda),” viaBrooklyn-based indie label Sleep Well Records. With effervescent instrumentation and soft, earnest vocals, CROOK explores the conflicting nature of a murky relationship in a way that’s both intimate and ambiguous. CROOK says about “my bf (kinda)”:”I wanted to write a song about a particular experience that I had — one that felt too obtuse / undefined to work as a pop song. Although it took a long time (please don’t ask how long, it’s embarrassing), I did find a way to write it. Even better, I found that I could describe it, quite simply, as…