Originally an architect, the ideas that singer-songwriter Frizzell D’Souza picked up in structure college have knowledgeable her second EP In My Asymmetry, launched through Kappa Originals in July.
D’Souza recounts being requested if she might write concerning the “grey spaces” by the label and it led her thoughts to consider the time period and its related vocabulary in structure. “Initially, I thought of symmetry as a metaphor for idealism. In classical Greek architecture, symmetry used to mean a thing of beauty, and to the point where the Greek mathematicians would get into mathematical details of buildings so that it would look absolutely perfect,” she says.
The Mangaluru-raised, Bengaluru-based artist calls this concept as “one-dimensional” since buildings have modified through the years. In My Asymmetry, then, is D’Souza’s approach about saying “how it’s okay to not be a symmetrical building, like textbook pretty or beautiful.” Across six lush tracks produced by Aadarsh Subramaniam and that includes co-writes with Anirudh Ravi (from indie-folk act Cinema Of Excess), D’Souza explores completely different types of love, with the intimacy of classes realized and learnings to share.
Inspired by the likes of Jacob Collier, Dodie and Lizzie McAlpine and Yebba, there’s a marked, layered strategy to the sonic palette of In My Asymmetry that elevates D’Souza’s warming, versatile vocals. She and her producer Subramaniam have been aware of latest components they cam carry to the desk, and calls it a “slight elevation” from what she’s executed previously on her 2022 EP The Hills Know Of You.
Songs like “Paintbrushes In The Ground” and “Symmetries” are uplifting, whereas “Long To Be” comes from D’Souza’s need to be a reliable pal. The first music that got here collectively was “Paintbrushes In The Ground,” the place the artist recollects simply trashing the unique guitar-and-vocal demo. “Aadarsh said, ‘Let’s take the guitar off the intro,’ because it’s a very predictable element in my sound. I was skeptical, because I didn’t want to become an electronic artist,” D’Souza says with fun.
They strike simply the correct stability on songs like “When Dawn Breaks Again,” an intro to the ultimate music “Keep Me In Meadows” which explores love within the afterlife. Like any singer-songwriter price their salt, D’Souza comes throughout as a superb observer of issues, folks and maybe conditions as a confidant to show it into music. When requested if she considers herself listener who can mine conversations for songs, she traces it again to structure as soon as once more. “I think observation is the key to forming a good story. I would credit good observation a little bit to architecture because that’s how we started off all of our projects. I feel like that had to do a lot with how I write,” she says.
It helps that D’Souza is pushed by catharsis, to the purpose that if she even has a thought, it’s most likely within the type of sentences that may change into a music. While some songs on In My Asymmetry are deeply private, some are different’s tales. It comes with the territory that folks start to invest, which D’Souza says typically causes “nervousness and anxiety” about writing about her personal experiences.
There was no apprehension like that on “Mum’s Lullaby,” nevertheless. The mild music is D’Souza’s approach of telling her mom she loves her, in a fashion as direct as potential since that’s typically one thing Indian households draw back from. The video consists of outdated footage from her childhood shot by D’Souza’s father, exhibiting the artist’s mom and sibling out on a visit to Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru.
The have to say ‘I love you’ got here from seeing her mother and father – each docs – flip frontline employees throughout the world Covid-19 pandemic. There got here some extent the place her mother and father sat their kids down for a critical discuss ought to the worst occur to them, which got here as a bolt from the blue for D’Souza.
When she confirmed her mother and father the video earlier than launch, D’Souza says they have been each nostalgically engrossed within the recollections from the journey fairly than the music’s message. “They’re like, ‘Oh my god, where did you find these videos? And then they said, ‘What song is that playing in the back?’ I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ I’ve got to do another listening session for my parents.”
With the video out now, there’s additionally one other visible deliberate for “Symmetries.” While D’Souza launched the EP with a gig in Mumbai, there’s a nationwide tour deliberate for later within the yr.
