![]() ![]() ![]() We caught up with Lil Silva to find out more. When I ask “why now?”, the short answer is because it couldn’t have happened any sooner, not without all of these crucial elements falling into place first. ![]() Over a decade on from his first creations, Lil Silva’s debut album is ready and he’s using all of these lessons, experiences, trials and errors, and pouring them all into his music. Before long, he began to stretch himself beyond being solely a club music producer and started experimenting with different collaborators (Mark Ronson, Paul Epworth and Damon Albarn among his sparring partners) and techniques as he began to add his own vocals to his tracks. Raised in grime raves, the artist born Tyrone Carter first cut his teeth with local crew Macabre Unit before assuming the Lil Silva moniker and switching to UK funky with a series of incendiary releases on Night Slugs, a good chunk of which folded a lot of those early grime influences back into the new UK funky sound to give us era-shifting classics such as “Cheese & Bun”, “Seasons” and “Night Skanker”. In essence, it’s the story so far.Īnd it’s been quite a story. “We only make music that activates the chakras,” says the Bedfordshire talent on “Vera (Judah Speaks)”. The album title literally refers to the process of unburdening one’s self from the baggage and the weight built up over the years-an ongoing process he’s still reflecting through both traditional therapy and Theta healing, which is a much more spiritually-focused process concerned with meditation, chakras, and the ego. It’s also the result of years of therapy and intense self-examination. Musically, it draws on the relationships built and the skillsets acquired over the first decade and a bit of his career old friends like Sampha, Little Dragon and serpentwithfeet reappear, whilst longstanding collaborator Benji B acts as exec producer. Like all debut albums, Lil Silva’s Yesterday Is Heavy is the culmination of his entire life up until now. ![]()
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