‘Can I spend the day with you’.
A plea, a yearning, a desperate realisation that we are alone and in need of company. We need someone to share our thoughts, our dreams, our fears our foibles, companionship is how we get through life. After the lockdowns, state sanctioned loneliness, some of us have never recovered, and some of us are taking this new start as a chance to live life to the full.
Symren Gharial- the face behind Primitive Ignorant uses this backdrop of desolation and entrapment and captures all the subtleties in his new music. He says
“After a jam with Sterling Roswell from Spacemen 3 and Nick Nicole from Wasted Youth, I had this weird film sequence looping in my head. It’s about using your darkest past as your most powerful weapon and never being ashamed of where you’ve been. By the end it also seemed like a tribute to Iggy Pop and the power of perseverance’
Noble thoughts there my friends, as with any scenario it may not apply to everyone, especially as we descend into those murky depths and discover that rock bottom has a fucking cellar.
The first track is ‘Power’ and immediately I am struck by those exotic, Middle Eastern vibes, like Ofra Haza, then gradually you get that deep, brooding bass that creeps up on you.
I love the video for ‘Power’ the flashes of red in between the monochrome adds a boldness, courage and it is a visual treat.
The composition ‘A Day With You’ is fantastical, there are elements of dreamy sensations, light and airy musings, dare to encroach where you wouldn’t normally, all sorts going on really. It is a piece you can set your own tone and storyline to; it is what you make it, and therein lies the beauty, flexibility and vulnerability.
These two tracks are a taste of what’s to come, with a new album on the way, Primitive Ignorant can be sure of their standing in the music scene, assured and sincere. Symren is an artist who is intrepid, searching all avenues, broad and all enveloping boulevards, dark, narrow alleyways, extracting the essence of life in all its forms. Then he tasks himself with investigating what he has found, delicately dismantling the evidence, his dexterity enables us to see our insides turned out in a manner that is quirky, yet sensitive. We are all human after all.
Take your seats my friends, because the hour is almost upon us, prepare to be enlightened and intrigued by the enigma, where primitive meets futuristic, in the medium that is the psychic cinema.
Azra Pathan
Primitive Ignorant – Power (Song For Iggy) and A Day With You out now.