Badlands has dropped their new single and live performance video for their track titled ‘The Sun’. With the unique perspective brought forth with the simultaneous release of both the original track as well as the live performance video, you can clearly see that this was a song meant for the stage in an intimate live setting. It’s simply beautiful. It’s overtly captivating. The subtle duet of vastly different stringed instruments is a wonderful blend of angelic emotion and simple beauty captured in the video. A musical muse.
The atmospheric soundscape in the studio version adds a unique dynamic to the music. It’s almost worldbuilding. A surrounding feeling that highlights the in-between the lines of the music and adds a third dimension to the overall sound. This is music by the truest of musicians.
About ‘The Sun’
Stripping the vinyl-dusted meld of new wave, warehouse dub, and trip-hop heard on 2022’s Call To Love down to its more rustic, post-apocalyptic ambient folk foundation, the track is a meditative rumination on what it means to make someone else the center of your universe. “The Sun is about giving in to delusion in regards to another person, no matter if it’s in choosing a leader, infatuation or some other kind of paragon. When you idolize someone,” Jaunviksna says.
About Badlands
Composer, producer & sound alchemist Catharina Jaunviksna has been operating under the moniker of Badlands since 2011, under which she makes lush tracks from a wide palette of inspiration; stretching from post-punk, folk and shoegaze, to electro, dub and gritty techno working with analog electronics, sampling & organic orchestration.
She’s the founder of the imprint and production company RITE based in Malmö, Sweden; her platform for making transboundary arts and documentary, original music and sound design for film and theater, as well as production for and collaborations with other labels and artists. She’s received several national awards and nominations, including the STIM scholarship and award for composer of the year by Manifestgalan & SKAP (2022).
Featured image by Joel Ståhl.
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