Se intuía que Kelela, la cantante originaria de Washington DC pero asentada en Los Ángeles, daría nuevas noticias creativas pronto; la reedición por parte de Fade To Mind de su mixtape esencial "Cut 4 Me", prensada esta vez en vinilo, preveía una nueva dosis de material original, también y de nuevo "manufacturado en exclusiva para ella". 

En esta ocasión son varios artistas los que están implicados en "A Message": el primer corte de su nuevo EP, "HALLUCINOGEN", que llegará el 5 de Mayo al completo, cuenta con la excepcional producción de Arca y Boots, así como un fascinante videoclip realizado por Daniel Sannwald y en el que el maquillaje y la caracterización son increíbles. 

"Hallucinogen takes us on a journey through lust, longing, delirium and ecstasy" dicen en nota de prensa, mientras que este primer single adelantado "is the stage that comes before lust, the darker realisation of love; the “rejection and amputation.” 

"I met Alejandro [Arca] on a boat in August of 2012. We sought one another out across a dance floor and within 5 minutes agreed to meet each other as soon as possible to collaborate. I had one song released to my name and had just heard one of his mixes, but we knew we'd found something in one another. We spent the next three days, 14 hours a day talking about our artistic visions and how it intersected with our personal lives, making songs that reflected that while dancing around the room to let it all out. About 5 or 6 demos were born out of these three days.

"A Message" is one of the demos that came from those sessions and it speaks to the despair that I was experiencing at the time. The initial version of the song spilled out of us in about 25 minutes. Since then, it's been like a sculpture that I've come to and refined over time, adding a lyric here, refining a melody there, adding a bridge, etc. It's a process that is now finally complete with its release and I'm so happy that I finally get to share it with all of you."

@FrankiePiza