Don’t Talk To Me When I’m In the Zone

Kamilita “Can U”

The last time I wrote about this artist she was a mysterious and extremely prolific Bandcamp artist called Zizi Raimondi, but sometime recently she eliminated all her Bandcamp presence and rebranded as Kamilita. She’s still prolific, has put a lot of energy into her visual aesthetic on Instagram and YouTube, and is somehow even more mysterious now. “Can U” is one of her best experiments with dance music to date – she gives you a good thumping beat, but surrounds it with a dizzying array of vocal and keyboard harmonies that seem to spin out of it in circles around the downbeat like a spider web. The lyrics take a sort of banal phrase – “can you get into the zone?” – and nudges it towards a philosophical abstraction. Like, what IS the zone, man? How can you truly get IN it? Why is she in the zone, but I am not? When her voice shifts towards angelic high notes similar to peak Alison Goldfrapp, it’s just far too pretty and graceful not to feel sort of profound.

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