New Delhi singer, composer and producer Sijya. Picture: Press picture
New Delhi composer-producer and vocalist Sijya has dropped her new downtempo single “Tabla” after signing to One Little Unbiased Data, who will launch her upcoming EP Leather-based & Brass this September.
The monitor marks a giant transfer for Sijya, who launched her debut EP Young Hate in 2022 through London label Unintentional Data. With One Little Unbiased (OLI), the artist is on the identical roster because the likes of Björk, U.Okay. artist Laura Misch, and American dream pop artist Glasser. Sijya says in a press release, “Signing to OLI was surprising and feels unimaginable. They’ve an extended historical past of supporting robust and severe feminine musicians. Björk is the final word matriarch of us misfits. That is thrilling and considerably nerve-racking too. It’s undoubtedly fuelled plenty of new power into me, and religion.”
The track “Tabla” has only a single tabla pattern, so Sijya turned it right into a “private joke” round straightforward categorizations that happen within the twenty first Century. She says, “The track has one tabla pattern, so ‘Tabla’ was the working title. There’s a lot strain on us as South Asians to commodify our identification and tradition, and it’s so prevalent proper now. So, that is me having amusing over it.”
Extra critically, nevertheless, the track issues itself with “forcing your self to undergo the ordeal of believing in your self.” She provides, “It’s additionally about not letting different individuals (particularly males) do issues that appear exhausting, for me. That makes me really feel weak and hole. This work is all mine. It’s imperfect, however I wouldn’t have anybody else make it theirs.”
In 2022, Younger Hate marked Sijya’s breakout that took her to levels throughout India and the U.Okay. (together with a remix of artist Nabihah Iqbal‘s “Sunflower” final yr), Leather-based & Brass was within the works for some time. Calling the method of ending it “painful,” Sijya provides, “Earlier than this EP, I felt like I used to be messing about. I didn’t suppose a profession in music was doable. Younger Hate was my first try at ‘doing’ any music in any respect. Now, with this second EP, I really feel like I’ve turn out to be a musician. I’m now doing this with intention. This EP looks like the start of me looking for a sound.”