An ancient, inter-galactic love letter, ‘Statues’ was written and produced by BUZZ and features water drops from caves and branches being stepped on to further emphasize its earth-bound fate. The explosive reaction across social media gained the song a last minute seat on BUZZ’s forthcoming EP. Inspired by the art of the Hellenistic period, the lyrics are a love letter written by Aphrodite to a secret earthly muse, as if a time traveler were hiding relics for someone they love and lamenting their ties to time.

Inviting listeners inside BUZZ’s sonic moodboard, BUZZ explains, “My mind loves to live in a fantasy world consisting of an ancient, highly evolved civilization that communicates with other beings from different worlds, openly trading and traveling between multiple galaxies, but still looks like the ancient world with ornate open air palaces and lavish royal baths…can you tell I watched ‘Three Thousand Years Of Longing?'”

While crafting the song, BUZZ attempted to put herself in the shoes of someone desperately wanting to keep their loved ones’ memory alive, while understanding no physical object lasts forever. “I kept imagining what I would do for someone I adored to preserve their memory across the earth – painting pictures, sculpting busts, weaving tapestries, and the ultimate heartbreak of knowing no physical thing I make on this earth will last forever which is shown in the line “’I wish we could be statues, oh but they’ll go too.’”

Delving into how the unique, field recorded sounds came to be on the track, as opposed to a traditional drum set, BUZZ says, “Sonically, I wanted the song to feel as if it lived in a cave, so the highs are rolled off on a lot of the percussion and there’s everything from rain sticks to wind chimes to kalimba and xylophone giving a more melodic structure to the percussion sections.”

The track’s accompanying video was directed by Sasha Paskal, who also directed BUZZ’s previously released video for her track, “Nothing Is Real.” It was shot at the historic California Trona Pinnacles, the site of scenes from Battlestar Galactica, StarTrek, and Planet Of The Apes. BUZZ says on the idea behind the video, “I wanted to look and feel a bit stranded, since emotionally the song puts me in this place where I have dominion over the world for a few seconds.”

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Crafted mostly during a trip to the mountains outside of Los Angeles, the self-produced forthcoming EP On Matters Of Searching is an eight track examination of humanity, nature, science and healing filled with confessional lyrics and inventive production. Granular synth beds and tasteful choirs lace many of the songs along with sounds of satellites falling out of earshot and percussion from field recordings of branches being stepped on or water dripping off stalactites from an ancient undiscovered cave. BUZZ says the EP, “is a love letter to a life beyond humanity, and beyond time. It’s a wormhole I’ve dreamed of entering and gladly losing myself in.”

Out now, BUZZ opens up a new realm with her latest single ‘Universe.’ The track is written and produced by BUZZ herself and even features a field recording of icicles melting from the isolated mountainside cabin it was created in. Against a backdrop of textural percussion and blooming, ambient synths, she sings of “a grain of sand so small until you zoom in” and claims “we met long ago just in different forms,” staying true to her philosophical core and masterfully merging it with her artistic identity.

Diving into how the track came about, BUZZ explains, “I think about these big concepts a lot, somehow they put me at ease. I love seeing the synchronicities in nature from the way humans are formed to the way stars are formed, the way all things can be zoomed in on to infinitely discover more things and vice versa zooming out.” Rather than being afraid of how vast the universe really is, she embraces it, and seeks to learn more. BUZZ continues, “I’m happily burdened by an emotional reaction to the never-ending space that we’re suspended in atop this little magical rock swirling through the galaxy. ‘Universe’ is about all life, and its limitlessness.”

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