Tash Sultana Shares New Single ‘Something In The Water’
Multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer Tash Sultana releases new single and video Something In The Water today, their first new music since signing a global deal with BMG earlier this year, and the opening of a new chapter for one of Australia’s most influential musical exports.
Something In The Water sits right in the pocket Tash Sultana built their name on. Warm guitar, a groove that takes its time, and vocals that move from velvet-smooth to full power. It’s the kind of sonic alchemy Tash has always made alone, and the back half stretches out and lets the playing do the talking.
Tash discusses the new single, “For a little while, I lost my way. I had to step back, strip everything away and find the road home to myself. Over the past year and a half, my life has changed in ways I never could have imagined. Now, I’m turning the page and letting go of everything that no longer belongs to me – old relationships, former versions of myself, the image of who I thought I had to be, and the direction I thought my career should take. The past is the past. This is the sound of releasing it – and stepping into whatever comes next.”
The accompanying video lands at 2pm AEST on Friday September 18. It takes its shape from a numerology reading Tash was given a decade ago, one that turned out to be uncannily close to what followed. Four cards map the story out, The Avalanche, The Climb, The Summit and Dominance, and the clip brings each of them to life through several versions of Tash’s own personality.
“10 years ago, a numerologist gave me a prediction of my future that turned out to be eerily accurate,” Tash says. “It stuck with me and became a pivotal point in how I understood myself and the energy around me. I lost that magic for a while when I veered off course, surrounded by people and situations I needed to separate from. To map the past, present and future, I created four cards: The Avalanche (the past), The Climb (the present), The Summit (the next step), and Dominance (the dream). The clip brings them to life through the interplay of multiple versions of my personality.”
Tash has described this era as deliberately human and anti-artificial. Everything on it comes from real performances, real instruments and real recordings, sometimes landed in one take and sometimes after hundreds. It follows the hardest five years of their life, personally and professionally, and a decision to separate from the people, systems and versions of themselves that had stopped serving them. In Tash’s words, it is about reclaiming their career, their identity and their reason for making music in the first place.
A singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer and entrepreneur, Tash has spent the past decade building a career entirely on their own terms, with a five-octave vocal range, a self-taught looping style and the ability to play over 20 instruments.
From busking on the streets of Melbourne to commanding some of the world’s biggest stages, Tash has amassed billions of global streams, sold over a million tickets worldwide, headlined major international festivals and sold out iconic venues across the globe. Their live performance videos are among the most watched of their kind on YouTube, reaching hundreds of millions of viewers. A multi-award-winning, Gold and Platinum selling artist, Tash has broken attendance records including at Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena and sold out Red Rocks Amphitheatre in five minutes.
Something In The Water is the first taste of what’s to come. Sometimes life throws enough at you that all you can do is rebuild and look forward, and that’s exactly what this next body of work is. A decade in, Tash Sultana is making the most honest music of their career, and this is just the beginning.
