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Lyva Vamity

 

Lyva Vamity 

just dropped a debut album

It’s a beast 

A voice of the 21st-century reminding us people do still think, in terms of albums. This one is definitive. A statement of our times. 

A seasoned studied pro ecstatic with achieving goals most of us can’t even dream of, says it all for all of us better than we know. 

100% proof distillation, roots of South Wales Bristol music scene, rock jazz electro rap dub drum and bass.

Spinning our collective cultural references, deftly handled, making the impossible seem easy. 

Takes us “beyond hip-hop”

A voice of our generation. 

A generation piece. 

I intended to do a review for each track individually 

but I got caught up with it 

The album is a portal of high octane creativity. 

It tells it as it is. 

After this album, the world is reset 

into a different trajectory. 

It needs to be played

on a loop. 

~SnakeAppleTree

Reverent Silence

Reverent Silence

I asked God why my life had to take a different direction than promoting my music career and my development as a musician. 

God showed me. 

My music is influenced by a fusion of east and west. 

The politics over the decades of my life has been increasing segregation of East and West, with both hemispheres at war with one another. 

The ancient ‘Christianity versus Islam’ debate is an example, from the Gulf War of the 1990s to the mass-migration invasion of Europe by Islamic ‘refugees’ during the 2020s.

Islamic extremist nations banned music altogether. Western democratic nations shit on me because my music is not British enough, not Western enough, due to its Arabic, Indian, Oriental, African, influence and content. 

The Western way would be to defensively say; I make MY music from all the sources which stir me, from sounds, vibrations, feelings I love. The truth is it’s music. It flows through us and sounds however it feels, to the best of our ability to bring it through.

““We have fallen into the place where everything is music.” Jalal Uddin Rumi

“If music be the food of Love, play on!” William Shakespeare 

“[She] charmed their ears and made them forget their cares, ravishing their minds with wondrous tales, just as the musicians do with the sweetest airs.” Shaharazade, ألف ليلة وليلة  Alf Layla wa Layla, The Thousand and One Nights

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” accredited to Friedrich Neitzsche 

God showed me that my path was to stop making music to protect me from the consequence of persecution from both the east and from the west. 

A handful of humanitarians who simply love music no matter what its historic source, are unlikely to hear it anyway unless I go epic-scale with promoting the ideology along with the music. 

It would become a symbol both for that which is universally repressed simultaneously that which symbolises freedom from all forms of dogmatic repression. 

I weighed it that my music would have to be sufficiently good, to convey such lofty idealism. 

I battle constantly with imposter syndrome and low self-esteem largely due to the overwhelming volume of trauma abuse I receive anyway, simply from living in a culture of repression.

Whenever I have done anything good, other people take it, reshape it, rebrand and market it has their own invention with no accreditation to me whatsoever.

My music is not in the public domain. Some experiments, b-sides, snippets and offcuts of it is, simply to leave a record. 

I still have some master copy discs which were not stolen or destroyed by sociopaths. They will likely end in a land refill. 

I stand at a juncture in my life. I have less decades ahead than I have formative experiences in the past. I must decide what to do with the time I have left. 

I am once again, thinking of music at least.

But they have a machine for that now. I am  become redundant. 

The struggle seems a pointless endeavour.