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Alivenique announces debut album Year of the Statement and shares title track

Lightning Studios is excited to announce the debut Alivenique full length album Year of the Statement, coming September 22, with the release of the title track. Alivenique is the new, pop-art music project of singer/producer and visual artist Ali Beletic.

The song ‘Year of the Statement’ picks up the pace from her previous, cinematic single ‘Rain’, and cements her place as a firm part of the new wave of female beatmakers and producers with her vibrant, arty, celebratory beats, and syncopated vocals. The track features an infectious talking drum beat that interlocks with a primal bassline supporting her 16th note, defiant vocal performance full of swagger in the verse that sets up and explodes into a colorful pop sing along at the chorus for all the extroverts out there.

For Ali, the song serves as a rally cry - loud, explosive, badass and feminine. It’s a rally cry to the artists, daredevils, the dreamers and the creatives out there: “This song is dedicated to the dreamers, the provocateurs. It’s not about a medium, it’s about a spirit, a trickster. It’s about taking matters into your own hands and being provocative, but through action and change, rather than philosophical means. In a way it’s a call to action for my fellow artists, writers, creatives, it’s about not conforming ourselves. It’s a very self-empowered song, it’s about using your own hands to create what you want. Not using verbage, and the beat reflects that. I produced it to riff on a super modern, badass, celebrational, and ultra- feminine sense of power.

“To me the repetitive hook of the talking drum feels brilliant and intellectual, playing against the primal feeling of the descending bassline and the off the cuff cool 16th note syncopated rhythmic vocal performance, with the release of the melody and swagger of the chorus. I really like to push and pull on rhythms vocally. I remember when I was learning guitar and I would super slow down Jimi Hendrix’s guitar parts, and there was so much push and pull that really really brought the groove, so that definitely informed my vocal performance here.”

Alivenique · Year of the Statement

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Alivenique’s “Rain”

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Alivenique releases debut single ‘Rain’

Lightning Studios is excited to announce Alivenique’s ‘Rain’, her first solo song of the year, foreshadowing what is to come with her Alivenique project, a pop music project infused with a more soulful cinematic journey - featuring modern pop art, bangers, intimate moments, and a lot of mise-en-scène and sonic storytelling that truly take us on an experiential journey.

Thematically, it’s an emergence song and brings us into the ceremonial aspect of her upcoming music journey, featuring collaged vocals, a post-genre mix of modern and traditional percussion, epic harmonies and delicate beautiful melismas that carry us through to the running bridge featuring interlocking synths and stick percussion, taking us on what feels like a run through the grasslands with a herd of Zebras. Visceral and earthy, mythopoetic and cinematic with a pop twist.

Alevenique had this to say about the offering: "When I was writing the intro to ‘Rain,’ I was thinking about drawing people into the story I wanted to tell. I was imagining approaching a small village on horseback in a sort of supernatural type storm, so it begins with a huge thunderlike drum with a super long decay, and then enters the delicate rain like shaker, which has it’s own rhythmic pulse, coming in and out, and then the distant imaginative vocals coming from a far off village that get louder as you approach, finally dropping into the collaged modern cut up vocals of the verse, poppy 808’s and a multi-perspective chorus telling us that we are dealing with both tradition and modernity. Musically and lyrically, for me, this song represents the iconic hero myth call at the beginning of an epic story, a story of super(naturalism) and modern femininity.”

Alivenique · Rain

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FLOOD premieres the new intro single from Alivenique “Tune In (Prelude)”!

It makes perfect sense to unveil a new project with the intro track to your first album—which is exactly what musician and artist Ali Beletic is doing today with “Tune In,” the first track from her forthcoming album The Year of the Statement under the name Alivenique. Without giving away too much of what the record has in store, the prelude demonstrates the LP’s sonic palette with tribal drumbeats (it was produced by Akron/Family’s Seth Olinsky) and sunny synth lines soundtracking the songwriter’s looped vocal repetition of “Now that I’ve got your attention.” Check it out HERE!