Kulowo Wawega - yearn by sair

honoured to announce the debut ep from Kulowo Wawega, 'yearn' is out on sair! digital copies are available on bandcamp.

https://ssair.bandcamp.com/album/yearn

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Kulowo Wawega has hidden experiments in sound across the internet since 2009. Tucked away across platforms and under a handful of aliases (the tares, no debts, esuna), Wawega’s music glimmers like an aluminum candy wrapper pressed into the pavement–worn in by passersby, but treasured by whoever finally stops to scratch at it, squinting as the sun glares off its edges. Yearn–the first EP under the name Kulowo Wawega–finds grace in the daily struggles, sacrifices and surrenders of the human experience.

yearn collects sounds from 2017 to 2023, spanning Wawega’s wide influences in worship music, minimal dubstep, drone, slow core, and RnB, and finds parallels in the revisited rhythms of the work and field songs of enslaved people. While yearn is particular to its maker in style–each delicate loop, spattered piano key, and granular shift in texture, is a marker of Wawega’s practiced ear–yearn longs for something unspecific and unresolved. The struggle towards desire becomes its resolution and the cycle repeats.

“I’m not in a rush. I’m not in a hurry. I’m there to be with whatever people are experiencing, and to watch the newness come forth after going through the mundane, the menial, and the suffering.

Words by Alphonse F.
Music by Kulowo Wawega @thetares

Contains tracks

• germane by sair
• Kulowo Wawega - poor in spirit by sair
• halite by sair
• home security by sair