Bay Area band Karamacoda — long time friends of The Chillcast with Anji Bee and sometime collaborators with both Lovespirals and Anji Bee — have just dropped a new album called Love and Fate. Excitingly, Anji collaborated on a duet with band founder, B. “Naive” features lyrics penned by Bee, who recorded her vocals in The Chillcuts Studio with Lovespirals partner, Ryan Lum.
In an interview with Below Zero Beats B said:
“When we wrote our last record Eternal we asked Beth and Anji to join us on vocals for the track Love Will Turn Your Head Around and it was so magical, so beautiful, I wanted to recreate that experience even more”
‘Love and Fate‘ was released March 10, 2015 on Sola Musa Music.
A review of Love and Fate:
With Karmacoda‘s 5th full length album, B has firmly asserted himself as the driving creative force behind the band’s classic trip hop inspired sound. His smooth, calming vocals grace all 10 tracks on ‘Love and Fate,’ more than any of the previous releases. The loss of the band’s former diva, Heather Pierce, is made up for by exciting collaborations with a bevy of female vocalists including Beth Hirsch and Anji Bee, who were featured on Karmacoda’s 2011 release, ‘Eternal.’ Ms. Hirsch is featured on 3 slow to mid-tempo duets, including the heartstring-tugging, SomaFM chart-topping lead single, “We Don’t Have A Lot Of Time.” Long time friends of the band and fellow San Francisco artists, Tyler Stone and Artemis, contribute a track a piece, while the Los Angeles-based Shannon Hurley lends her voice to two tracks, including what might be the most classic Karmacoda sounding duet, “Shine Through.” While it may not be proper form for an artist to comment on their own work, I would be remiss not to suggest that “Naive” may be the most sexually charged of this unabashedly romantic set of songs. The closeup of an unfurling red flower bloom on the cover is apt symbology for the sensual sentimentality of the music enclosed, as well as the rebirth of Karmacoda itself after its own prolonged winter.
Read more about the release on Karmacoda’s site.
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