Possible, by Eki Shola

Possible

by Eki Shola

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1.	Why2x 03:46	info	buy track
2.	Journey of Zen 03:30	info	buy track
3.	Chill Wednesday 03:30	info	buy track
4.	One 03:02	lyrics	buy track
What is Final Beginning? Final Beginning highlights my belief that life is always starting. Life may seem as if each encounter and moment in time is final, but in actuality, each represents the start of a new understanding or phase in life. The only boundary placed on time is our method of measurement that we have devised. Our life’s experiences are birthed and extended out on a timeline that is man-made measurable yet philosophically is innately challenging to fully capture and evaluate when you think of time within the construct of our eternal universe. Therefore, what you perceive as the ending and the beginning essentially can be considered as one.
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7.	Seawave 04:47	info	buy track
8.	In the Morning 03:46	lyrics	buy track
In the morning, you can go now
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10.	Refresh 00:43	info	buy track
11.	Four Letter Word 04:05	info	buy track
12.	Can't Breathe 03:10	info	buy track
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18.	Suspension of Life 04:22	info	buy track
19.	Tender Amor 04:48	info	buy track
20.	The Lesson 04:03	info	buy track

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Pieces is a personal trilogy of new music created in the aftermath of the tragic 2017 Sonoma County Wildfires that destroyed so much and represents improvisation not only musically, but in practice. We lost our home and everything we owned that night, but the fire unlocked something in me, and I found myself compelled to create like never before. When everything’s gone, you have nothing left to lose. And the fact that we had nearly died in the fire made the next few months feel like a precious gift. A second chance to create again. A second chance to live.

Music poured out of me, but rather than trying to painstakingly recreate all of the songs I had lost, I decided to experiment instead. With donated instruments and a new laptop, I focused on retrieving snippets of songs I had emailed to friends and family over the last 15+ years, and subsequently reimagined the songs on the album. Chopping fragments up and sampling them, adding second movements with a different feel from the original, turning unintentional “mistakes” into intentional effects. It was all exciting, gratifying, and therapeutic, and a completely different method of composing than I had developed for my debut album, Final Beginning.

In less than a year after the fires I had written enough new material for three albums, and the idea of releasing them as a trilogy was born. Impossible was created first, raw and in the moment, and is steeped in the healing force of just being alive and able to write. Drift represents the subsequent period of wanting to be cocooned within movement that was rhythmic and comforting. A yearning for what was. And finally, Essential is about newness and discovery, and about moving forward with authenticity, love, risk, grief, and gratitude into a new world.

Channeling all of the pain and sorrow, joy, and gratitude into this music has been an incredible process. One that opens the conversation musically about love and loss and the healing qualities of low frequencies, rhythmic patterns, and swirling melodies sought out by the heart, for the heart to heal.

EKI SHOLA BIO:
Eki Shola’s vibrant career in music and medicine can be described best by the artist herself, “I create music not only for myself, but to generate a space for the listener. Music is healing.” A talented vocalist and pianist, Eki Shola’s music transcends genre, as she seamlessly draws from jazz, electronica, world, and new music to create a sonic landscape all her own. Her music has been described as “…sound art to be used to trigger thought and encourage love and beauty through rhythm and unique composition.”

Born in London to Jamaican parents, Eki Shola was raised in a musical family. She emigrated to New York in the late 1980s and later as a pre-med student at Cornell University, she played in the jazz ensemble performing with legendary musicians such as Steve Turre and Dr. Donald Byrd. Now living in Northern California, Eki Shola released her debut album, Final Beginning, in 2016 and the album has been reviewed, charted and aired around the world.

In both 2017 and 2018, Eki Shola was awarded the NorBay Music Award for Best Electronica Artist. She has played across the San Francisco Bay Area, London, and New York City and along with sharing the stage with Georgia Anne Muldrow and Lucky Otis, she has been asked to open for renowned artists such as Kitaro, Bebel Gilberto, DakhaBrakha, and Habib Koité & Bassekou Kouyate. After submitting her song “Dreaming”, filmed among the ruins of her incinerated home, Eki Shola was selected to perform at the 2018 NPR Tiny Desk Contest. Honoring the one-year anniversary of the wildfires, her personal story was featured in a PBS TV special, “The New Normal: Visions of Healing”.

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released February 22, 2019

Composed, produced, performed, and mixed by Eki Shola
Mastered by Landon Balk

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Featured in PBS, NPR Tiny Desk Contest, and more, Eki Shola’s music transcends genre, as she seamlessly draws from jazz, electronica, and soul to create a sonic landscape all her own. A vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, & physician, Eki Shola uses her music as a conduit for healing. ASCAP Plus awardee, Eki Shola will embark on a Japan tour in October after releasing her 5th album, 還 (Kaeru). ... more

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discography

還 (Kaeru)

Oct 2023
BHMEM

Mar 2022
Talks of 21

Oct 2021
Believe

Aug 2021
Garden of Light

Oct 2020
Jubilee

Oct 2020
Essential

Aug 2020
Drift

Nov 2019
Possible

Feb 2019
Marching On

Jan 2019
Dreaming

Jan 2019
Final Beginning

Aug 2016

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