Rock N Roll will always be but it needs a shake up every now and then. DAR.RA is giving it a NEW VIBE, a retro flavoured infusion with Electronica! Not fazed by the lack of mainstream attention DAR.RA is free to explore deeper subjects and meanings that are relevant to a plethora of peoples that some artists are afraid to touch. From social justice, the environment to Animal charities the core of his music is deep and personal, deep driven beats, poignant lyrics that sends a message all wrapped up in a sweet-sounding rock-dance-soul electronic rhythmical experience.
From the Emerald Isle now living in the English Country side DAR. RA not only takes on musical exercersions but also his an author of several books. He takes the metaphorical subway to his creative destinations, as in his words, “It’s a safer place to create on the underground.” Setting up Kusha Deep Records in 2003, after a second tour of Australia and New Zealand, it was clear that, if you did not do it for yourself, no one else would come to the rescue and release music that didn’t fit in with the Swedish pop writing factory sound, or the X-factor machine that did nothing, but to devalue music even more than Napster had already.
Now fast forward to 2019, and it’s even more clear that this decision was right. For more information on DAR.RA and Kusha Deep Records please visit www.kushadeep.co.uk. Check out Diamonds In The Showdows below!
We caught up with with Dar.Ra as he talked about his latest song and more!
Q.So how has the release of your single Diamonds In The Shadows gone down with fans?
People have been bang on with it. The mix of Rock and dance Music is fresh sounding when you put it up against the sound of what Radio is dropping at the moment. Its ace to get feedback on what you do from the Socials as well so you know if your on or not before the single drops.
Q.Can you tell us something about the release no one else knows?
I wrote it in one of the most Haunted Houses in the UK.
I just heard the chorus in my head while I was trying to get to sleep.
‘We Are Diamonds N The Shadows
Trying To Find Our Way Back Home’
Just came out of nowhere. It was still playing around my head the next morning so I wrote the rest of it that day.
Q.What was your favourite moment making this single?
I live for recording as most people around me know, more into the studio than touring if I’m honest.
I like writing new stuff and getting it down as quick as possible.
So being in the studio with Harvey Summers was fun as we have a kind of 6th sense thing going on. We do not talk much just let the session flow and only really speak to say I was thinking that before I say it and Harvey kinda of does it.
The remixes were cool to do as well.
I would say that seeing the video come back from the initial vision I had of Humans being like Mice in a lab test was super cool.
I like to think we make Thinking Peoples Music, rather than head fodder.
Q.So what’s next for you?
We are finishing off the New Kinda Normal Album at the moment.
I have a killer new song called The Lights which is about the uncomfortable subject of Suicide but prays that we do not take all our thoughts seriously.
A lot of things we think about ourselves comes from somewhere else so we are carrying a lot of baggage that is someone else’s.
If we see through those dark thoughts that push us to make terrible decisions and hold the vision we can make it through, then maybe the Lights wont go out on us.
Love helps a lot in this strange world we walk on.
Q.Will you be touring at all this year?
If things keep going well and there is enough buzz then Yes.
I am getting asked a lot on Instagram when I’m going to go live.
I play acoustic cuts live for my Sonic Army on Instagram
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Q.If you could work with any band on a new song, who would it be and why?
I like Billie Eilish’s brother Finneas I think he is a master melody and lyric writer
I would love to do a killer Rock n Roll track Big guitars, drums, none of that boring drum machine stuff, proper kick ass. Get Dave Grohl in and the Foo Fighters to lay the backing track down just to make sure the whole deal was kicking.
As it goes a track with Billie, her brother and the Foo’s would be pretty cool.
Bohemian Rhapsody for the 21st Century.
Q.What do get up to in your spare time?
I ride and train horses. Love the connection to nature they give you.
They are like sponges that soak up whatever you’re feeling and bring you to a place of oneness if you let them.
Its sad to see the 90% of the horse owners I see have no connection to them and use them as machines to win prizes. Its odd to watch, you can see the horse holding a broken heart at not being heard by their owner.
I love the natural horse people who know how to make friends and have the most miracle time with them they are the real deal in the game.
I write books too. I had two out in the past couple of years
‘Road Tales’ which is about amazing people I met while touring and ‘The Night That Jimi Died’ which is about someone who is born in the same hospital as the one Jimi Hendrix died in and tells a story of a girl who can hear Jimi speak to her. Amazing read I have been told.