Aisha Badru – Transcendence EP (Nettwerk)
Aisha Badru - Transcendence
Release Date: Out Now
Has it been a tough week? Need to
unwind and feel the stress drain from your body, mind and soul? Then turn your
phone off, find a cosy corner and settle in with the new EP from the sublime
Aisha Badru. The ‘Transcendence EP’ is an oasis of beauty and calm that you can
just melt in to without any effort and that is a truly rare thing in the world
of 2020. The first of the five songs is ‘Millennial’, a track that wanders in
on the breeze followed by the buzz of bees and the free laughter of children in
a playground. Badru’s soft strumming and almost confessional vocal style speak
of the endings of youth and the excitement of new beginnings; “this is the
dawning of our lives but we’re in debt up to our eyes, is this the cost to be
alive? A slave to bills until we die”. It is both beautiful and depressing, in
equal measure.
‘Forest Green’ continues the ultra-chilled
vibe and, honestly, Badru’s voice is just one of the most pure and innocent
things I have heard in a very, very long time. Probably my favourite track on
the EP, ‘Water’ is the sound of all pressure and control being relinquished to
the will of nature set to soft, summer afternoon keys and near whispered
vocals; “loosen up your grasp, everything’s not meant to last”. So true. On ‘Love
Doesn’t Fade’ Badru becomes clearer about her melody as we are transported to
the last corner of sunlight in a New York back yard at the end of summer,
transitioning into the autumn evenings.
This simply sublime collection
closes out on ‘Soil’s Daughter’ and it is a song that feels as though it was
created entirely organically directly from the soul which is, in turn, good for
our souls. People talk a lot about the music they want at their funeral but I
think this is the music I want to listen to last before I shuffle off this
mortal coil – I want to enter whatever afterlife there is with this much calm
and joy in my heart.
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