The power of suggestion is a powerful suggestion: that’s a basic summary of the assertions served up in AKoVA’s new album, ‘Barefoot’.
With deep ideologies at their core, these twelve tracks are playfully written - encouraging and exploratory, with simple rhymes. A message for your inner child may well need to be presented as to a child: with straight lines and a few key colours.
Persistent driving rhythms and lyrics extolling the virtues of dance mean that you are likely to, in fact, dance. His frequent reminders that bliss is an actual thing just might spark a quest for that too, as in Track 1 ‘The Space Between’.
“The space between the spider and the fly… the space between just living and bliss.”
Track 2 ‘Who Am I’ builds further intrigue, cultivating its own organic growth, with sounds like shells, or maybe actual shells.
“We row this life without an oar between us.”
Life lessons from Bruce Lee and others are preached in ‘Quotes’.
“Stop worrying about what people talking behind your back: they’re back there for a reason... Dancing stops you thinking. So if you find yourself thinking too much, dance.”
AKoVA is akin to Xavier Rudd - both in feel and message - crossed with Mattafix, being towed, at pace, across a firm, sandy shoreline covered in seashells.
There’s an earnest, friendly drive here – AkoVA has the engine running, honking the horn, welcoming you to join the journey from the head to heart.
