AGAAMA Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/agaama/ New and independent music Mon, 03 Oct 2022 10:13:37 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 AGAAMA Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/agaama/ 32 32 88787050 AGAAMA – Sarehole Mill https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2022/08/11/agaama-sarehole-mill/ Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:44:32 +0000 https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/?p=29298 AGAAMA is an artist, composer, producer and singer-songwriter from Birmingham who draws inspiration from across the musical spectrum. Be it her father’s contemporary-classical LPs, her mother’s love of Sarah Vaughan and Quincy Jones, weekends spent at raves or metal shows, or even Sunday mornings singing at church. This openness to the myriad of possibilities informs the AGAAMA project and forthcoming EP Wandering Worlds, out later this year on The state51 Conspiracy, utilises a range of styles as a means to […]

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]]> AGAAMA is an artist, composer, producer and singer-songwriter from Birmingham who draws inspiration from across the musical spectrum. Be it her father’s contemporary-classical LPs, her mother’s love of Sarah Vaughan and Quincy Jones, weekends spent at raves or metal shows, or even Sunday mornings singing at church. This openness to the myriad of possibilities informs the AGAAMA project and forthcoming EP Wandering Worlds, out later this year on The state51 Conspiracy, utilises a range of styles as a means to move through different physical and emotional spaces.

Taking its name from a green space within the urban environment of inner-city Birmingham, new single ‘Sarehole Mill’ conjures one such location. A place where “you share good and bad times with the ones you love,” as AGAAMA puts it. Crafted around field recordings from the site, the song offers a rich and slow-moving ode to the place. Fond if not wholly positive, the track’s palpable love is accompanied by something more urgent and uncertain, its dreamy tones offering a certain unpredictability too. A song, that is, rooted in physical place but also the psyche of the individuals and collectives with pass through it, carrying with it all those people’s  energies and anxieties.

Wandering Worlds is out on 15th September via The state51 Conspiracy.

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