Taahliah - Gramarye

The eagerly anticipated release from the Glasgow-born award-winning producer and DJ comes with a full-size booklet of lyrics & exclusive imagery selected by TAAHLIAH, as well as a fold out poster in full colour print. If you’ve caught her ecstatic DJ sets, heard her AIM award-winning debut EP Angelica, or spun her bootleg club edits, you know TAAHLIAH to be an artist not bound by genre borders. With her debut album, Gramarye, she continues her eclectic approach, interweaving pop ballad songwriting and club-ready anthems to delve into and represent her internal world. TAAHLIAH has sold out the institutional Southbank Centre for a one-off collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra, played European clubbing flagships such as Fabric, Razzmatazz, Dour Festival and popular music havens like Glastonbury Festival and Sziget. Her DJ sets have earned viral status online, and taken her around the globe with sold out shows in the USA, Australia, and South Korea. Beyond her DJ and producer career, TAAHLIAH is a notable personality – co-hosting her cult podcast The Dolls Discuss and featuring as a guest-host on BBC 6 Music. ‘Gramarye’ releases on cult label untitled (recs), who have partnered with TAAHLIAH since her very first single, ‘Brave’. Shaped in part by her experience collaborating with the London Contemporary Orchestra, the record is TAAHLIAH’s boldest statement so far. From the confident kick thump of ‘Boys’ to the sensitive confessional writing on ‘Holding On / Let Me Go’, this debut bares all sides of its creator. Written and recorded with a close-knit group of collaborators, such as naafi, Dev Hynes, Tsatsamis and Fred MacPherson, the record is a journey of vulnerability - one that gradually moves towards hope.

Tracklist

1. Lachrymose
2. Boys
3. 2018
4. Hours
5. Eylvue
6. Heavenrise
7. Cherish 
8. Angel
9. Whispers
10. Dawn
11. Holding On/Let Me Go

Hailing from Glasgow, TAAHLIAH came to music production quickly after starting to DJ. Driven by her dissatisfaction with the music she was hearing at parties, she started creating her own edits; layering warped vocals atop hard dance tracks and morphing mainstream pop tunes into experimental club-ready anthems. Her original productions finally took centre-stage with the release of her mini-album Angelica in the summer of 2021 via London label untitled (recs) which went on to win Best Independent EP/Mixtape at the AIM Awards.

In 2022, TAAHLIAH released a trilogy of singles further establishing her artistic freedom. From the pounding hard dance of Bodies featuring Luca Eck to the anthemic pop song Fall Into Place toplined by vocalist Tsatsamis, via her facetious IDM collaboration with Loraine James Fuck It!.

Crystallising a new dawn in electronic music, TAAHLIAH constantly seems to challenge the idea that fun and experimental are antonyms. Nothing expresses that better than her viral Boiler Room where mainstream EDM & the sharpest edge of contemporary electronic music cohabit on a tracklist that reads like a manifesto for dance music’s future. This unrestrained approach permeates all areas of TAAHLIAH’s career including her choice of live performances. She has sold out the institutional Southbank Centre for a one-off collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra, as well as playing European clubbing flagships such as Fabric, Razzmatazz, Dour Festival or popular music havens like Glastonbury Festival or Sziget. TAAHLIAH’s ecstatic DJ sets have taken her around the globe with sold out shows in the USA, Australia, and South Korea.

Beyond her career as a prominent DJ & producer, TAAHLIAH is a personality to be reckoned with as she proves weekly on her podcast The Dolls Discuss co-hosted with her friend Lourdes or the few times where she has sat in for Mary Anne Hobbes on BBC 6 Music.

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