Mastria

The Nile is Dalinda's deep breath you didn't know you were breathing. It is gentle and seductive. The song is strong, but tender, and lingers long after the final note. It leaves a soft feeling behind. Her voice stays naturally within the music and has authenticity throughout. The acoustic sounds and little details flow underneath like a quiet river. Dalinda's music is open and spacious, allowing room for growth. There's no taking away from the core message of the song. It brought to mind the ways that family ties extend across space and history. The type of love that also includes the pain of being away from someone. The song took me back to those who make a difference in us, even when they are not around or when they are gone. One long section is carefully placed and gradually rises before falling away again. That's a natural change and not forced. Dalinda understands how to let the music flow through the emotions that we all have within. Not pushing anything. It ...

The feeling of suffocation that comes upon the Exzenya in her Captivity is like the cold damp chains in some forgotten basement. She draws on her psychology education to come up with this nightmare of control and its ability to break the person you are. She is 55 and a global businesswoman and being a grandmother, she is not holding anything back- pouring raw and human vulnerability into this dark pop song. This instability that is reflected in her voice makes her voice tremble and quiver. It evoked in me something that is in my own life a dark side of dependency. It is a ghost story, achingly acute, utterly unrestricted. This music attacks you in these wild riots, and which are like disjointed thoughts in a wall, bolted together, to create this damp, cramped feeling that nearly crawls your skin. They are sparse and stripped down in the instrumentation, which in a way contributes to the isolation being even bigger. These are these few layers that introduce the creepy, windy tones of th...