Talaya. - Sola Fide + No Way (feat. Brandon Marsalis & Crissy P)
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🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Talaya. - "Sola Fide + No Way (feat. Brandon Marsalis & Crissy P)" from the 2021 album Existential Soul on Talaya's Music.
“Sola Fide + No Way” is an exemplification in song of a whole new crop of young, self-taught, self-made artists that is currently rising in the Seattle area. The hypnotic track off of Talaya’s debut full-length Existential Soul sees the R&B soul songstress team up with rappers Brandon Marsalis of Tacoma and Kent-based Crissy P for a sophisticated and spiritual quest to find the light.
An audio engineer by day, Talaya first gained recognition for her vocal prowess at 2020’s Sound Off! The 21-and-under competition has been the symbolic birthplace of artists like Naked Giants, Dave B, Emma Lee Toyoda, and Travis Thompson and is seen as one of the main opportunities that young artists in the Northwest can get exposure. Crissy P also falls into that category, as a finalist in 2019’s competition and now an activist using his insightful voice on his 2020 debut full-length The East Coordinate to amplify the causes close to his heart.
“Is you Christian all the way?” Marsalis ponders on “Sola Fide +No Way,” questioning the intentions behind performative religion. Reflection is big for the 24-year-old artist, who beautifully articulates the big questions in life on his 2019 album Ouroboros. While none of these artists have yet lived a quarter century on this planet, their ability to express larger-than-life concepts bodes very well for the next generation.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:04.9 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:11.0 | What have got beaten the world? |
| 0:13.9 | And all that's shined the balls? |
| 0:16.9 | A purpose to nurture ourselves in them. |
| 0:22.5 | What have got beaten the world? |
| 0:25.6 | That means there is no limit to what I can be before me |
| 0:32.6 | Maybe not to be so evil, but to show growth |
| 0:38.6 | Maybe to grow, grow like a crystal |
| 0:44.6 | I was deep in the cage stuck in my ways I had to run |
| 0:49.6 | Run from who I would have become |
| 0:56.6 | When I've got green in the world and all of a sudden |
| 1:01.6 | The world's the purpose to nurture ourselves in town |
| 1:07.6 | The reflection in the glass could be the first glass |
| 1:12.6 | We're giving to end, glass we're giving to end |
| 1:17.6 | We're giving, glass we're giving to end |
| 1:20.6 | Those that play wicked games, shame, most high |
| 1:23.6 | Those that say they bring rain to land to most drive |
| 1:26.6 | Those that pray for brighter days, seek the sunshine |
| 1:28.6 | And those that keep light out of reach, seek the untwined |
| 1:31.6 | And those that dabble in towers of avalus they voice in time |
| 1:34.6 | A poison mind that throws a few |
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