This Saturday, Canberra’s latest-and-greatest electronic outfit, SAFIA are set to launch their single ‘Listen to Soul, Listen to Blues’ this Saturday night at Transit Bar. The band themselves describe the tune It is about being close to someone, but still not being able to pin point who they really are as a person.
“As producers we really went back to basics with ‘Listen To Soul, Listen To Blues’ and focused on the songwriting before fiddling with computers and production. The whole track was written with a piano and pen and paper and by the time we were ready to add the electronic elements and produce it the track pretty much wrote itself.
The song has made its way in to the iTunes Electronic Chart and featured on Saturday Morning editions of Rage over the last two weeks. SAFIA’s ‘Listen To Soul, Listen To Blues’ has been likened by some as somewhere between James Blake & Skrillex, so it’s easy to see why these guys are attracting a lot of attention. If you have managed to catch any of their recent shows – or a fantastic set during FashFest – you know what to expect on Saturday night.
Following the launch, SAFIA are off to support Disclosure, AlunaGeorge and Duke Dumont in October, so there are certainly busy times ahead for the boys. We wish them all the best and look forward to a massive show this weekend.
