Asha's Awakening is a Soul & Funk album by Raveena, originally released in 2022.
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The second album from Raveena Aurora is a conceptual epic whose protagonist, the titular Asha, is an ancient Punjabi princess living on an alien planet, where she is bestowed with advanced spiritual intelligence (as one does). However complicated that sounds, the Indian American artist unfurls the narrative with grace and subtlety, her feather-light falsetto floating over South Asian-inspired percussion and dreamy R&B and disco. Vince Staples drops by for a verse on the slinky, Timbaland-esque “Secret,” but the album’s most swoon-worthy moment is “Asha’s Kiss,” a collaboration with Asha Puthli—the Mumbai-born jazz-fusion singer whose “Space Talk” you’ve probably heard sampled in any number of hip-hop classics—that feels like an afternoon daydream. If that doesn’t get you in the mood for reverie, the 13-minute guided meditation (“Let Your Breath Become a Flower”) that closes the album should do the trick.
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1Rush3:05
- 2Secret (feat. Vince Staples)3:22
- 3Magic2:47
- 4Kismet3:20
- 5Kathy Left 4 Kathmandu2:27
- 6Mystery4:00
- 7Circuit Board3:47
- 8The Internet Is Like Eating Plastic2:22
- 9Arrival to the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (Intermission)2:22
- 10Asha’s Kiss (feat. Asha Puthli)6:18
- 11Time Flies4:20
- 12Love Overgrown3:20
- 13Endless Summer3:52
- 14New Drugs (feat. TWEAKS)4:44
- 15Let Your Breath Become a Flower (Guided Meditation)13:31
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Asha PuthliFEATURING
- TweaksFEATURING
- Vince StaplesFEATURING
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