- Genre: 'Pop'
- Release Date: '22nd November 2022'
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The first single from her forthcoming album, ‘Illegal Planet’ set for release early next year, ‘Nothing Came From Nowhere’ finds Rita Braga exploring some dark territories.
She describes it as ‘a slow song, going against all the speedy busy low attention span century we live in’. But then, as her last album, ‘Time Warp Blues’ showed, Rita is an artist who seemingly belongs to a bygone age and was born out of time and out of step with the modern world.
But where ‘Time Warp Blues’ harked back to jazz and vaudeville, ‘Nothing Came From Nowhere’ has its roots in 80s early electro with a vintage drum machine pushing along a strolling bass and ponderous synth line. At some point, it breaks into a big sax break augmented with contemplative piano, but it’s still more 80s rock than old-time jazz, and the mood is decidedly introspective. Slow it is, and it’s certainly not an instant grab – but that looping synth motif is hypnotic, and takes a hold that makes you want to play it again.
