IMVU by Killer Bee

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0bUPeJOh9ZgNNF8ruCDWqe

Free Download:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14nHbmmx55o-a4T0x9Bdc7b_2lRR6Vxsr?usp=drive_link

Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/_/1572315238?mt=1&app=music&ls=1&at=1000lHKX

Everywhere else:
https://album.link/us/i/1572315238

The album cover comes from a photo I took in May 2019 in Chinatown in NYC. I'd always been interested in the concept of chakras and auras so I wanted to see what mine would look like with the camera they use. I was expecting a beautiful blue aura as I've always connected to the color but much to my surprise an unpleasant green-yellow-orange-red blob stared back at me lmaoo. Feeling initially disappointed, the person at Magic Jewelry began to explain to me what each color meant and slowly I began to accept and even appreciate their significance. The green aura is affiliated with the heart chakra and represents the color of life, love, nature, and evolution. It speaks to compassion and the connection to a higher purpose. My pursuit of music has definitely felt like that. The orange/yellow color is affiliated to the sacral and solar plexus chakra and is supposed to signify creativity, self awareness, and spiritual awakening. The red color is affiliated with the root chakra and represents stability and a sense of being grounded. The murky purple on my right side is supposed to represent self doubt in the past, transitioning to self confidence in the future represented by the red/orange on my left side. All of these things relate to my love for music and the person at Magic Jewelry actually asked me if I made music for a living. I think it's interesting that my aura deals with only the lower 4 chakras and I'm not sure what it all means or if any of it is real but it was a cool experience and it helped me connect with my spiritual side a bit more. The font on the album cover is also supposed to invoke themes of Indian / Zen Buddhism as well as a nod to Jodorowsky's 'The Holy Mountain' which is an amazing and strange film.

And of course a bunch of other things inspired this album such as artists like Burial, The Microphones, SOPHIE, Umru, PC Music, blackwinterwells, 8485, Petal Supply, Skee Mask, Frank Ocean, Himera, tlc, Batu, Tim Reaper, Prescribe Da Vibe, Conducta, MJ Cole, KAYTRANADA, Secret Shine, Ride, Dilip, pandi, bsterthegawd, DJ Rashad, Biel Xcamoso, Sango, The Sequence, Cherelle, Gorilla Zoe, Yung Joc + many more. Anime like Sing Yesterday For Me, A Certain Magical Index, Re: Zero Season 2, and Tonikawa. Books like 'Society of the Spectacle' by Guy Debord. Painters like Bosch, Asger Jorn, George Condo, Ralph Rumney, Cristina BanBan + more. TV Shows like Top Chef and Lizzie Maguire. People like Fred Hampton and James Baldwin. Genres like rave and club music, trap, jungle, UKG, gospel, funk, dubstep, baile funk, bossa nova, footwork, acid house, ghettotech shoegaze, NUKG, glitch pop, hyperpop + more. Movements like the Black Lives Matter movement and the Black Panther Party. Filmmakers like Alejandro Jodorowsky, Stanley Kubrick, and Andrei Tarkovsky. Films like 'The Black Power Mixtape', 'I Am Not Your Negro', and 'The Holy Mountain'. Religions like Zen Buddhism and Christianity and so much more that I'm forgetting that has filtered into my music in one way or another. [Cont'd]

Full Letter:
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