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Shilpa Ray Releases New EP PAISLEY via Northern Spy
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 23, 2016
Earlier last month, Northern Spy quietly released a new EP by Shilpa Ray. It's called Paisley and on account of the cats in the chorus of Shilpa Ray's "Johnny Thunders Fantasy Space Camp," it's more than a slight nod to Prince's cat Paisley.
"When Doves Cry" is a collaboration with soul singer Deva Mahal, daughter of Taj Mahal. "Where Evil Grows" is originally by Poppy Family. The EP is available on high fidelity stereo lathe cut 7"s (handmade in the Northern Spy office!) and everywhere digitally.
Shilpa Ray
Paisley
Northern Spy Records
5 August 2016
This was the track that got me. I was 4 years old when I heard this song. There was a story about him on the evening news and I told my mom I was gonna marry him. Why not? He looked like me. He had brown skin, black hair, big dark eyes and the longest lashes. Watching Purple Rain as an adult I was floored that I was allowed to watch it at all as a child. I didn't remember it being so sexual. All my 4 year old self could absorb was that in the TV there was a world where you could get up on stage, wear glamorous clothes, and be surrounded by beautiful babes. I watched the older girls in my parent's friend circle copping Appolonia's style-big 80's hair, purple shadow and bright red lips. She was a whole lot of woman, and Prince was the magic man from outer space. Those were good times. RIP
SIDE B: Where Evil Grows
Ever watch the video of this song on the Kenny Rogers show? It's sublime. A wholesome white couple, seemingly Jesus loving hippies, singing a song about where evil grows. I first heard this track while working the door at Pianos this past winter. My friend, DJ Andy Haynes, a connoisseur of creepy music, was spinning that night and the lyrics to this grabbed me. "Evil grew. It's part of you and now it seems to be that every time I look at you evil grows in me." Like I said, really creepy.
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