"And it’s my nightmare when we’re all gone"
Paradiso by L.A. based Todavia, the dream pop project of singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Rhyan Riesgo is just so densely beautiful. The interweaving synth lines wrap around beats and electric guitar melodies as Riesgo's hushed vocal aesthetic, youthful and wistful plant the seeds of dream images. I though of bulbous flying ships and (flying) fluffy animals through the mountains of Japan, but that is just me.
But wait... the dreamy, magical, almost childlike serenity is counter poised by dark, dark lyrical content of the apocalyptic kind.
Gold, emerald
Tedium, all the green
Turns so mean
When we’re all dancing
In all our freedom
And all they want
Priced to sin
And it’s my nightmare when we’re all gone
Watch the sun rise and set
Dystopian rituals, our paradiso
Torture, horror
Questions, faces
Forget, all our love
And all our progress
And we’re so young, to justify
And how to process, all the dead
Watch the sun rise and set
All lost, the smell of rotting corpses
Silence the noise, put fire to the unrest
Dystopian rituals, our paradiso
Oh, but it is all so beautiful sounding. The juxtaposition of horrible possibilities does shake you up. It is like when a happy 60's pop song plays during a slasher movie death scene. When your mind and heart process two different things there is an emotional and rational system breakdown. It can make you think, it can make you laugh at the cosmic distortions of life but, for now, I am going back to those big furry animals in Japan.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Dream-pop/Alternative/Chill
Rhyan Riesgo
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA
Affiliation
Asleep in a tree
About
Los Angeles based dream pop project multi-instrumentalist Rhyan Riesgo on vocals, keyboard and guitar
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Dream-pop/Alternative/Chill
Rhyan Riesgo
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA
Affiliation
Asleep in a tree
About
Los Angeles based dream pop project multi-instrumentalist Rhyan Riesgo on vocals, keyboard and guitar
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