Singaporean singer-songwriter has Aisyah Aziz picked up from where Joanna Dong left off to release Euphoria, marking the second edition of The Foundation’s UTOPIA reimagined series. Aisyah puts her own spin on a symphony written by Russian composer Vladimir Martynov and recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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“I’ve been in the space of love for a while but then the anxiety is whether love will last. My concern is change - how everything evolves within seconds - and nothing ever stays the same. I don’t want to be busy obsessing about what’s happened in the past though, so when I wrote the song, I was exploring being in this love space, and exploring about being present in the moment,” shared Aisyah in a press statement release.
Co-written together with RHAUN and Adir Kaisan, Aisyah shared a glimpse into the songwriting process: ‘"We’re small, we’re flawed but we can be who we are’ is a line that resonated again and again in my head.”
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Helmed by The Foundation for The Arts and Social Enterprise, UTOPIA first began as a symphony but slowly evolved into a movement which aims to bring local and international artists together to express how art can make life better.
“One Million Towards UTOPIA will be a movement that will invert our preconceived ideas about the arts, that the arts is separate from important subjects such as maths and science. The arts has to be seen as a crucial part of being human. When we’re born, we’re already artists. You’re first an artist before becoming an engineer, or accountant, or banker and so on. The arts should be part of the creative impulse that lie at the centre of our souls,” says The Foundation director Michael Tay.
Most recently, Aisyah released her debut album Pearls on the 17th of September.
Listen to Euphoria here, and leave your review on Hear65.
