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Following previous single 'Bewitched', 'Circles' is the 2nd single taken from upcoming EP 'Motions', available on Friday 17th September.
The track leans into B-ahwe’s alternative hip-hop and R&B influences. Set against the backdrop of TAMBALA's beautifully textured production, she effortlessly floats between rapped vocals and lush melodic parts.
“I used themes of time and the changing of seasons to address issues surrounding mental health.” B-ahwe explains “The isolation we’ve been through during the pandemic has provided a bit too much time for introspection; I hope this song reaches people to let them know that they’ve not been alone in that.”
"Circles is about the constant cycles the mind sends us in as we try to evolve and move forward. Just when we feel we have found ourselves in the next steps of our lives, our minds start to re-run difficult past memories, or makes us question if we've really grown or developed. We want life to be this linear route where we just keep pushing forward and once something has ended we don’t have to deal with it again. But we have to see life in a none linear way, we are always learning from the past but that doesn’t mean it rules us and it doesn’t mean that we’re not growing."
B-ahwe was named as Jazz Revelations’ ‘Breakthrough Act’ of 2020 and her previous single ‘Sweet’, from 2020’s ‘Nuance’ LP, was BBC Introducing West Yorkshire’s ‘Track of the Week’. Her music has received airplay on BBC Radio 6, Worldwide FM, Soho Radio and Totally Wired Radio, as well as being championed in publications Earmilk, Stereofox, GUAP, Music Is My Sanctuary and The Pit LDN.
Willing and able,
these scars that fell at my table. Grounded and forming,
forces i’ve fought from a sensitive calling. Willing and able
but how the mind runs in circles.
Time travelling old wounds,
leading to archives deprived.
Time travelling through old wounds,
winter got me curving cold blues,
when the clocks go back and the dark descends, New year but I’m living in the past few.
No way to wade through all the scars,
got hope but a haunted heart,
got gold in my lungs and it weighs me down,
just seeking my speech but it feels like drown-ing.
Will my dreams come to fruition,
much more than spells and wishes,
of some mad woman,
who believes in suhttin, - cos
so subtle the way it tastes there's
no un-collateral way to chase these
dreams I - I die -
I decide for myself and I
See the - leaves been falling again,
Autumn calling again,
just long enough to forget the warmth
lose sight of the past and prepare to descend.
Birds trees sing again
it’s a racing game again
Am i chasing paper
or yearning to find my own place in this world.
Haunted by all the ghosts
Put myself first and hope
when the time is up , cos the time be up
did i hold myself through it all - proud.
Did I sacrifice enough for the wage
lose my mind and pursuit of faith
and leave love behind
just memory shrouded in all the abuses.
Saline won’t wash way all of the cause of my doubt no matter how i lay down
blood sweat and tears it won’t count
my roots tell me that
I know how they bled their soul to survive but that is just why
i refuse to deny, as sure as your soul flew east
I gotta fight
cos you put all this all in me too much love inside my blood and it has to be heard
free this bird.
Oh I’ll free you. I’ll free you, I’ll free you.
Willing and able,
these scars that fell at my table. Grounded and forming,
forces i’ve fought from a sensitive calling. Willing and able
but how the mind runs in circles.
Time travelling old wounds
leading to archives deprived.
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