Wild Bo… by Major Kami is a futuristic tantric trans-like music. This album is a product of a collaboration between DAMde8, Major Kami, Sarah Jay Hawley, Dan Burkhart and Denis Expert. DAMde8 is a group of French artists who work remotely with one another. It consists of three songs and an instrumental version of each piece. 

Wild Bo… and Major Kami

The Album starts with Wild Bo… which has an amazing cinematic quality to it. The version of the song that has Sarahs Jay’s voice has you captured right from the start. Major Kami aka Camille Miller invites Sarah Jay Hawley (Massive Attack singer in “Mezzanine”.), to guest star in this new EP Wild Bo… She says “I’m very proud to be a part of this EP3 called Wild Bo..”. The lyrics of course add value but, it’s Sarah’s intense performance that sells it. “And now I’m here and revere in your mystery and the show’s about to begin for you.”. She sounds like a total badass in this album but more so in this track particularly. 

We then have the instrumental version which is of course the same song but feels very different without Sarah’s voice. The drums, the synth and the piano transport you into another world entirely with its bass. We hear Sarah’s voice now and then but it sounds like it is lightyears away, adding a dream/trance-like quality to it. Denis Expert and Dan Burkhart did a great job at understanding Sarahs’s sensibilities as a singer-songwriter and matching her energy with the instrumentals.

Kami asks us to buckle up with her next track Smugle In Strange. This number plays with distortion quite well. It feels like the song has found individual songs with their own flavours have cut themselves and fit into this song, especially towards the end. This feeling doesn’t carry over to the next number

Modern Love

Modern Love feels like an ode to modern dating. She speaks of catching paper boys and she couldn’t even wave boy to this paper boy. The entire album plays with surrealism quite well. The way it uses isolation and repetition musically is impressive. Modern love speaks about love in its entirety. The way you have to surrender yourself to the rhythm of life, the thought of giving up constantly through your head. While also ignoring the love that’s right next you because the idea of love is terrifying. She has somehow managed to compile all this in one track. 

A movie that encapsulates the idea of love in a sinister way is Gone Girl. We all know of Gyllian Flyn’s brilliantness. The album is a gift to most filmmakers, it gives us an instrumental version with its own character as compared to the lyrical version. Also, sections of the song would work beautifully in a scene. This is especially because of the way it plays with contrasting some very serious and real lyrics and an upbeat beat structure. 

Major Kami has outdone herself in this album, it gives its listener something new to look forward to in every song. You can’t dismiss the next track thinking it’s an instrumental as well because it comes with its own characteristics. Be sure to see the variety of music on their Spotify and other socials to see what I mean.