Sahara Grim - “Time Wanderer”
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Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Sahara Grim has just released the kaleidoscopic, genre-blurring track “Time Wanderer.” The composition is a playful sonic exploration of overcoming past difficulties and giving in to joy, trusting the timing of all that unfolds on your path.
“Time Wanderer” is like a long-lost Kate Bush classic coupled with a hint of the ambient tinged boundary pushing of Bowie during his Berlin Trilogy. Filled with musical experimentation and theatricality, this track feels, unlike “Hounds of Love,” incredibly fresh and not “1985” time stamped. Sahara Grim allows emotions and vibes to sweep in mysteriously, and you cannot help but listen to the track with a sense of wonder, awe, and perhaps a satisfying sense of unease.
Pushed forward by an almost hypnotically pulsing and irresistibly steady drum beat, intricate musical textures shift and dance immersively, creating a cinematic, art-pop, avant-garde sense of style. Whether it’s the sweet rhythmic guitar chops, harp sweeps, hazy synths, syncopated tabla grooves, or the melodic, fluid bass, “Time Wanderer” is elegantly innovative… and that’s all before we get to the trippy coda of organ, Mellotron, and backmasked textures.
Sahara Grim’s vocals are just as spellbinding as the music. Beautifully vivid, conveying emotions not just through the lyrics but also through haunting texture, timbre, and the delicate use of dynamics. This is the sound you imagine Odysseus heard from the Sirens as he conducted his arduous romp back to Ithaca.
“Time Wanderer” is mystically timeless. The track is the third single to be taken from Sahara Grim’s hotly anticipated debut album, Fable, slated for release this November.