Perera Elsewhere, the mercurial Berlin-based, UK-raised electronic artist, producer, DJ, lyricist, composer, sound artist and trumpeter releases atmospheric her much anticipated 4th album ‘Just Wanna Live Some’ today, with atmospheric dub meets rap focus track ‘Dream Like That’ on LA label Friends Of Friends.
The new album ‘Just Wanna Live Some’ is a collection of 12 tracks that evolve Perera’s sound and experimental creativity. On the focus track, “If life is a map where’s the X and that?” Perera asks on ‘Dream Like That’ over a backdrop of cigarette lighter clicks and dubwise bass and horns, with pointed, poetic contemplations reflecting on addiction and the torment of capitalism.
The visualiser for ‘Dream Like That’ features the stunning graphic visuals of Perera from the album artwork, with an array of peacock feathers that is part of the earthy colour palette, shapes shifting and distorting as the montage fills the screen and shrinks again in sync with the lyrics and beats of the track.
Multi award-winning studio mastermind Perera Elsewhere has received numerous awards and media acclaim from Dazed, Pitchfork, Crack, Dazed, KCRW, Vogue, Clash and FADER for her use of technology to experiment with her voice, lyrics, beats, deep bass frequencies and sound design to explore the human experience. It was Perera Elsewhere’s music that first coined the term ‘Doom Folk’, seeing her release music from day one with LA label Friends of Friends, sharing three widely-acclaimed albums, debut ‘Everlast’ (2013), ‘All Of This’ (2017) and ‘Home’ (2022), achieving 4 million+ streams across her catalogue.
Over a decade after her debut, Perera Elsewhere, expresses herself emphatically, with fiery missives, thoughtful deviations and philosophical abstractions. With ‘Just Wanna Live Some’ the album title is a statement of intent, packed with Perera’s influences and obsessions, with a DJ’s brain, from her time mastering the trumpet as a teenager, circling the club scene in London, fronting bass-pop band Jahcoozi and working as one of the first promoters to bring grime and dubstep to Berlin.
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