If music is a lens into an artist's mind, Zingara's debut album is a portal to their conscious, subconscious, and what exists in between. The dream code it sonorously translates a life of peculiar events.
“There was a huge tsunami and an earthquake that hit Japan…” says Zingara EDM.com. “It's one of the biggest in history. The night before it happened, I was a kid and I didn't know how to spell 'tsunami,' I had a dream about the ocean and I saw it. I basically lived it from a woman's perspective.” .I woke up and thought, 'That felt really real. What the hell was that?'
“I logged on and a giant tsunami had just hit Japan.”
Zingara states that his vision related to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (the most powerful earthquake in Japanese history and the fourth most powerful earthquake recorded in human history) was among his first predictions of future events, including death of their loved ones.
“I never know what to say because before it happens you look crazy and you sound even crazier when it happens,” Zingara says. “So I just write it down and take note.”
Zingara dreamed vividly from a very young age. Her aunt became interested in her vibrant relationship with her subconscious and taught her about spirits, tarot cards, oracles, astrology and witchcraft. It is these lessons that nurtured a seed of spirituality, which later became the fabric of his haunting bass music.
“I was the weird ghost kid,” Zingara said. “…When I started making my own music, one day I understood that I could start telling these stories through my music. Since then, when it clicked, that's when my song 'Astra' was born into the world and stayed with people. I thought, 'Okay, maybe this is what I'm supposed to be talking about.'”
“These experiences, talking about it and interacting with other people ended up helping people. At first, when I was a kid I thought my family and I were the only people who had these experiences because everyone around me was like, 'What the fuck?' It wasn't until I started talking about it online that I realized how common it was.”
Zingara began her music career as a young woman in 2017 after her friend Noi encouraged her to pursue one. Noi, her friend Brandon, and her grandfather affectionately called “Pop” passed away that same year.
“I really want to do this even more for them,” Zingara says. “I felt like sometimes when I have musical ideas, they come from another voice in my head. When I write music, I can enter a state of flow where I feel its energy channeled through me.”
Zingara's deep spirituality and adventures in the world of dreams have shaped a distinctive relationship with loss. Pain and anxiety exist, but so does a comforting present. Take her new song “The Stars Are Calling Me,” a song that is not only dedicated to her deceased loved ones, but also believed to be played by them.
“I literally felt like it was already written. It seemed like it was really written from the stars,” she explains. “It's just magical to see it come to life in these stories and experiences that really manifest into reality. I work with grief directly and channeled and it's magical in a strange, twisted way.”
“I sound like a lunatic when I talk about this conversation. The way I look at loss and that kind of thing is a little different because of my connection to spirit. It's very strange to say, but I feel closer to my loved ones: those who have already passed, I feel their energy all the time.
Zingara was 12 years old when she started writing down her dreams. It is a common exercise among active and potential lucid dreamers. The “Close Your Eyes” producer shared a particularly vivid dream she had the week her friend Brandon passed away.
“There are experiences that really feel real and where I am self-aware. That's the difference,” Zingara said, comparing these dreams to more anxiety-induced subconscious manifestations. “Emotions are crazy.”
“The week my friend Brandon passed away, he knew I was super involved in the spirit world and the dream world. He came to me in a dream where he was standing on the edge of a cliff. There was a huge waterfall and crazy colors. I can't even describe to you what he was looking at. He looks at me and says, 'These are some of the places I can go now.' He hugged me and disappeared. I was like, 'What the hell? Screw you first of all. I want to come. Okay, like you can explore the universe! Cool!' “It was incredibly magical.”
Zingara's growing popularity has introduced him to many other people who have shared similar experiences. Many people will be skeptical of such stories, including this writer's. Zingara recognizes him and accommodates him comfortably. To each his own.
But grief and loss are universally shared experiences, something Zingara knows how to help others process.
“I am very grateful for the lessons and experiences that I have had and that I have had to go through since they passed away because they have led me to find a way to help people deal with their grief in a way that is new to many people. . ” she says. “For me, I've been through it and I know how to deal with it, deal with it and work with it in a strange way.”
Your mileage may vary depending on the veracity of clairvoyance and what follows death. But these spiritual winds fan the embers and fan the flames of a brilliant musical journey. The dream code It's a guide through the ethereal gears of Zingara and it's magical.
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