This is the 5th song taken from my debut EP ‘Modern Life Is Lies', released on Friday 20th May 2016.
Buy it here: https://websheldon.bandcamp.com/track/raat-ka-nasha-feat-of-embla
Available worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Bandcamp and Spotify.
If I'm completely honest, this song just came out of nowhere. I had some dirty electronic beats that I was messing with and a keyboard hook. At the time of writing the lyrics, I was thinking about this studio apartment that I used to live in back in 2012 in Manchester. I had this awesome job that I loved, living 10 minutes from work, I had loads of time for music and I was running lots and lifting weights regularly and generally just felt like I had a good control over my life.
At the time of writing, I'd played a gig a few months before in a venue called The Good Ship in North West London. It was actually a gig my former band Bilamie had meant to play but we'd broken up a few weeks before so I decided to get my s**t together and play a solo electronic style gig. On that night, there was an group called Of Embla @ofembla playing, the singer was called Maiken. I already heard one of her songs online called 'Puppet' and it kind of blew me away. It was sultry, dark, sexy, jazzy and just a combination of pure magic. I got talking to her on that evening and we said we would work together at some point.
So I when this track came up, I asked if she'd like to sing the chorus. When she came over to record, she brought a poem she had written called Chaos Machine. We had a jam to incorporate it into the song and she did this awesome performance, just speaking the words to the music... I loved it and thought it fitted perfectly - she sounded powerful (like when I felt I had control over my life), the lyrics were coherent but disjointed (like the lyrics in the first part of the song) and the performance was perfect.
Raat Ka Nasha is a rough translation from Hindi meaning 'Enchanted Evening'.
Lyrics:
Warm nights
Walls are windows wide
Gentle wind blows
Over my skin
Circulating
Indian spices, home is
Stubbed roach and rollies
In my finest wine glass
Rocks of ice
Every night is
Soft, unfocused
Long contented sighs
Every night is
Long, unfocused
Long contented sighs
Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine
City air, city noise
Summer bliss intoxicated joy
Just like my mind
Alive with
A streaming of feelings and drive
These evenings of diving and crashing and
Blissfully feeling my place
In the world
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine
Calm, chaos
Chaos machine
Machinery
Rhythm
Rhythm and blues kitchenettwork..
Coffe shop - ping basket - ball..
Calm, chaos machin - ery - thm..
Idelogically speaking,
On behalf of..
Me? You!
The panel has spoken,
Solar panel - electricity
Chaos machinery
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Music & production by Web Sheldon
Lyrics & performance by Web Sheldon & Maiken Marlen Sunby
Mastered by Nick Burchall of Audio Animals
www.websheldon.com
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