The genre-defying, multi-talented Kadhja Bonet has premiered new track "Nobody Other" on The FADER. The song comes in anticipation of her transcendent debut LP The Visitor, which is slated for release October 21 via Fat Possum/Fresh Selects. Described by The FADER as "an autumnal odyssey", "Nobody Other" confirms the artist's ability to fuse a variety of genres into her own design. On the album, Kadhja - pronounced "kod-ya" - invites us into a world not wholly our own, where past and future meet in a parallel, yet far lovelier, present.
The Visitor opens with an awe you'd expect from the golden age of cinema, somewhere between
Cinderella and Barbarella, in its half-mythical atmosphere. "Earth Birth" offers keys and choirs science-fictionally echoing down from deep space. This overture fades and Kadhja's voice velvetly emerges on "Honeycomb" with a timelessness sending listeners scrambling to find her nearest genre. After running through classical, jazz, soul, folk, and even psychedelia, you find it ultimately impossible to comfortably place her.
Bonet's early and formal training in classical music quarters, where she mastered violin and viola, learned flute and guitar, and gained the sharp compositional talents that frame every note and curve of The Visitor. She plays a good half of the instruments herself, including guitar violin, flute, and the backup vocals that fill up the skies of her music.
Kadhja stays private, if not a little mysterious, about her own life story. She insists that her audience convene with her on imaginative and musical planes, instead of through byword associations with any scene or venue. The Visitor is an opus unpolluted by the mixed advice or overproductions that plague other albums. It plays through like one individual's lucid dream in what is sometimes an all-too-dreamless musical landscape. Once we hear it, we recognize it as something that's been harder and harder to find in the last thirty or forty years, though so badly missed. Kadhja has humbly learned from her predecessors while following their signs ever forward.
Preorder The Visitor on
Fat Possum Store // iTunes
Tracklisting
1. Intro - Earth Birth
2. Honeycomb
3. Fairweather Friend
4. The Visitor
5. Gramma Honey
6. Portrait of Tracy
7. Nobody Other
8. Francisco
Tour Dates
9/17 - San Francisco, CA at The Independent
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