Song Review: “Planets” @akashaa.art
April 9th, 2024
Written by @melissa.m.gill
AKASHAA, a Las Vegas-based singer-songwriter, poet, and multidimensional artist, ascends the earthly realm in her song, “planets,” featured on her newly released album, BLOOM. She not only wrote and recorded this album, but also produced it. The Las Vegas Weekly dubs her a “genre shapeshifter,” and her mind-bending song “planets,” favors her enigmatic charm and experimental style.
“planets” spins an ethereal soundscape, complemented by haunting echoes and whispery ad-libs, casting a spellbinding requiem. Ivory keys sprinkled in the latter half impart a dreamy quality. A weightless atmosphere unfurls.
Poetic notes glimmer throughout the song, centering a metaphor that portrays her deceased adoptive parents as “planets” entwined in a cosmic courtship.
“My favorite lyric is ‘two planets in the night, chasing foreign land,’ because it’s this romantic moment where my dad takes the spirit of my mom into the night of her passing to make her feel safe and welcomed,” she explains.
AKASHAA’s creative process entails a crucial ingredient: trust. “With ‘planets,’ I trusted it and wanted to create this psychedelic lullaby of this whimsical story of traveling through space and time within yourself and feeling the comfort of the universe, knowing that everything is going to be okay and that you are held and that you are loved.”
AKASHAA’s album BLOOM is now available on Spotify and Apple Music.
Artwork By: @ig_fama
Photo by: @tamara.y.photography
Film by: @velma.global