{"id":16661,"date":"2016-10-18T11:17:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T10:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=16661"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:34:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T17:34:59","slug":"artist-of-the-month-trekkah-the-enlightening-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/artist-of-the-month-trekkah-the-enlightening-review\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTIST OF THE MONTH &#8211; TREKKAH &#8211; &#8216;The Enlightening&#8217; &#8211; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you feel like your Chakras need realigning, then worry no more cos Producer\/Singer\/Songwriter <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>TREKKAH <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">has got you sorted with his fourteen track debut album \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Enlightening<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d. Each song is conceptualised to the seven Chakras with one female and male song; here is how my mind and body coped with this epic spiritual musical listening&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First single, and first track on the album is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSlowly Fading\u201d ft <\/span><\/i><a href=\"\"><b>LOWRIE<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which is all about our Root Chakra<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Opening with slow echoey vocals and a slow vibesy Electro beat, the track showcases <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>LOWRIE\u2019s<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> extremely haunting vocals <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m trapped in a cage that I built to protect myself, I&#8217;m uncomfortable around the people I love &#8230; I really need somebody to defend me&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; deep and moving the songs puts ya in a slow, but dancey sorta trance. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"%3A;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Track two is the earthy feminine side of the Root Chakra <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChasing the Flame\u201d ft <\/span><\/i><b><a href=\"\">FIRENZA<\/a>.<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lauren sings soothingly on the track that \u201clove is the key\u201d over a company of wind instruments, the flute telling a story on it\u2019s own. It kinda takes me to a forest where the birds would be singing along. Also &#8211; can we just point out how great it is to hear new music from <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>FIRENZA<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moving on to the Sacral Chakra with the third and fourth tracks, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStereo\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">featuring<\/span> <a href=\"\"><b>BUD<\/b><strong><i>\u2019s <\/i><\/strong><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bright and dreamy vocals \u201cHow can I put my faith in something <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new, just like you? Cos I keep falling in and out of love, keeping falling out of touch\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">T has managed to showcase <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>BUD\u2019s<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> voice as the rare soulful gem it is whilst also accompanying her with an awesome instrumental backing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cStep Outside\u201d ft <\/span><\/i><b>JACOB STATON <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">track numero quattro. It\u2019s the most upbeat track on the album so far but it\u2019s still got me reflecting on my life. Guitar strumming greatness is paired with some super catchy lyrics \u201cI gotta break free from this, I gotta stand on my own two feet for this\u201d. This song will have you packing ya bags and moving out of your mum&#8217;s crib.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEyes of Content\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is track eleven,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">celebrating growth and completion, <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>BRU-C <\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spits some intense bars &#8211; \u201cNo more looking back at this doubt, instead my reflection is loud, I look in the mirror and man I feel proud, yeah I\u2019m content\u201d &#8211; it\u2019s obvious with this track <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>TREKKAH<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wanted to show a roundup of the emotions, a \u201clook how far you\u2019ve come\u201d sorta vibe. And he does it very well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If a title of a song ever perfectly summed up its vibe\u00a0in just one word it would be <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cJazz\u201d ft <\/span><\/i><b>MINA MINNAI. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It does exactly what it says on the tin &#8211; a smooth sax intro glides into a slick\u00a0beat, topped with celestial vocals throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Crown Chakra is taken on in \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch the King\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which takes on a sweet, Gospel\/Reggae lyrical feel with the help of <\/span><a href=\"\"><b>PERCYDREAD<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; \u201cThank you for your loving, thank you for your grace, thank you for my smile you put on my face\u201d and an enchanting ethereal beat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"\"><strong>TREKKAH<\/strong><\/a> perfectly walks us through his vision of spiritually. Whilst also taking your emotions on one hell of a ride too. The album&#8217;s a game changer &#8211; it\u2019s deep and meaningful and I defo wanna learn how to play the sitar, sax and flute now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can buy the physical album tonight, at the <a href=\"\"><strong>Rough Trad<\/strong><strong>e<\/strong><\/a> launch party. Digital versions to follow shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Yours in Love of New Music,<br \/>\nAngelica Giugno x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel like your Chakras need realigning, then worry no more cos Producer\/Singer\/Songwriter TREKKAH has got you sorted with his fourteen track debut album \u201cThe Enlightening\u201d. Each song is conceptualised to the seven Chakras with one female and male song; here is how my mind and body coped with this epic spiritual musical listening&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"theme-button-text wvc-button wvc-button-size-xs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/artist-of-the-month-trekkah-the-enlightening-review\/\"><small class=\"wvc-button-background-fill\"><\/small><span>Continue reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,4,15],"tags":[639,217,1607,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-16661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-artist-of-the-month","8":"category-blog","9":"category-reviews","10":"tag-artist-of-the-month-2","11":"tag-review","12":"tag-the-enlightening","13":"tag-trekkah","14":"entry-post-skin-dark","15":"entry","16":"clearfix","17":"entry-grid","18":"entry-columns-default","19":"entry-post-module-layout-fullwidth","20":"thumbnail-color-tone-dark","21":"metro-landscape","22":"entry-post","24":"entry-post-grid"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16661"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20744,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16661\/revisions\/20744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nusic.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}