Papua New Guinean/Australian artist Ngaiire shares her latest single, ‘Afar’. Created alongside her bandmates Andrew Bruce (keys/vocals) and Tully Ryan (drums), the track flows with vibrant creative energy. Blending electronic future-soul, gospel, and alt-pop, ‘Afar’ sees Ngaiire’s personal shift in her creative process.
“I wrote ‘Afar’ with the boys in my band. We’d never written anything together before as I habitually don’t work with the band when writing records. This was born out of an experiment to see if the 3 of us could write some tracks just for our shows. I have always loved how the boys would bend the songs to work in any live scenario and to be honest I really just wanted to write songs that sounded like how we sound as friends who are also in a band together.
Ngaiire
This is a world that was conjured up in our happy place – just jamming. It’s not attached to anything. It’s merely an emotional breath in the whole world of Ngaiire. When the song started to take form it sounded like that limerence dream state you can get to doing everyday menial things like your laundry or grocery shopping. It’s delicious, dark and desperate but also intoxicating to the point that an overcast day can appear like a kaleidoscope of possibilities. It feels like where the heart drifts but the body stays. It’s the longing in stillness and it’s in the nothing interesting happens externally but very much internally.”
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