{Just when I had started to get into a solid groove, you might have noticed that there was a “error” on my website over the weekend. I’m trying to sort out what happened, but at least I now have access and can continue to post, and so…the music continues!}
This record was one of my first purchases here in 2020, and it’s become an almost perfect unintentional anthem given the ways the world has turned. I first heard this song on a rooftop last summer when my friend and DJ Rani D (who as I write this is stuck in Peru!) played it during his set. The moment was almost too perfect and I had to know what the song was that fit the moment so well. For whatever reason, despite how amazing the song was and the immediate effect it had on me, I didn’t buy a copy until a recent romantic connection made me think of it again (sadly things didn’t work out, but at least she knocked me off the fence in regards to getting album). Very little info on David Astri, except for this rather excellent picture of him that is found on the back cover…
There is even less info on the side people and nothing on the lovely vocalist for this song, but it is an amazing tune. It’s a song that since I’ve added it to my collection, I’ve played it on repeat for days on end. I’ve also played it out for folks twice, during my second show on Artform Radio and at a gig supporting Brainstory & Jungle Fire, and both times someone came up to ask about the song. Now that in this moment, at least here in Los Angeles, we’re hunkered down in our homes practicing “physical distancing,” the song works as an anthem for the moment, and a reminder to choose wisely who you let into your space. “Safe & Sound” is the way we have to do things for the foreseeable future folks, take care of yourselves out there.