The Gap is an alt-pop track with choral touches that explores feelings of isolation and uncertainty and the ways we choose to cope. The first release of a new musical project under artist name saachisen, the song has featured on BBC Introducing and the music video premiered in Wonderland Magazine.

Find it on Spotify: https://sptfy.com/saachisen-thegap
Read the Wonderland review: https://www.wonderlandmagazine.com/2022/08/24/saachisen-premiere/
About me: https://saachisen.com/epk

Produced by Ramera Abraham (Engineer - Little Mix, Adele)
Mixed by Amanda Merdzan (Engineer - Freya Ridings, Tom Walker)
Mastered by Stella Massonnet
Recorded at Apple Music’s Platoon studios in Kings Cross

The Gap

Written and performed for Story Hour's puppet show production of The Ramayana (premiered in 2019). 
https://storyhour.co.uk
instagram @storyhourglobal

This song tells the story of Diwali, from Ram's perspective, centring on the dramatic moment where he and his friends build a bridge across the ocean to reach Lanka, and his true love, Sita. I wrote this as the opening song for a now internationally performed puppet show created by Story Hour. Please feel free to share with any family or friends, especially with young children who might love to learn about the beautiful festival of lights. Thanks for listening!

Ram And Sita(The Diwali Story)

Pastéis de Nata is a creative take on closure illustrated using the songwriter's favourite pastry - Portuguese custard tarts. Telling a true story from start to finish, the song reached the shortlist of Abbey Road's 'Topline' competition during the pandemic and was afterwards recorded and produced with Abbey Road Institute alum David Leondi, and mastered by Platoon's Stella Massonnet. The track is the second release by alt-pop artist saachisen, featuring violin and cello and her characteristic choral touches. It released on 24/02/23, with Clash Magazine calling it 'beautiful'.

saachisen's debut single The Gap gained BBC Introducing support, a premiere in Wonderland, and over 100,000 streams on Spotify. She is a semifinalist of the international songwriting competition and UK songwriting competition finalist for 2023, with past live performances including Pride in London on the Trafalgar Square main stage to a crowd of over 10,000.

Find out more about her at saachisen.com/epk.

Pastéis De Nata

Out now on all platforms! 
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/saachisen/if-you-knew-what-i-was-thinking

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios
Mixed by Amanda Merdzan (Dermot Kennedy, Freya Ridings)

If You Knew What I Was Thinking is a starry-eyed alt-pop song exploring conflicting feelings when falling for someone you know you shouldn’t. The pared back, bass-driven rational thinking in the verses gives way to synth and strings filled fantasy in the choruses, celebrating the inner joy of being in love. 

saachisen is an Indian-born, London-based singer-songwriter whose music has been championed by the likes of BBC Introducing and Wonderland (who called her debut single 'Pop perfection'.) Her live performances include the mainstages of Cambridge Big Weekend and Pride in London, where she played to 10,000 people in her biggest gig to date. Find out more about her at saachisen.com/epk.

If You Knew What I Was Thinking

Here's a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's The Boxer, from one of my favourite vinyl records, The Concert in Central Park. 

Main guitar and vocal recorded together in one take, with harmonies recorded on top.

Video of my take of the main vocal / guitar is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I9-KxMnj4M

Saachi Sen's Album

The Boxer -  Simon and Garfunkel Cover (Songs from my Record Collection)

Saachi Sen (now releasing as saachisen) is a Mumbai-born, London-grown alt-pop singer songwriter. She's been a Resident Artist at Camden's Roundhouse and is a past recipient of PRS for Music's Lynsey de Paul songwriting prize. In 2019 she was longlisted for Glastonbury's Emerging Talent Competition, and performed to 10,000 people in Trafalgar Square for Pride in London. Dark is one of her earliest solo releases and was part recorded at Abbey Road, and mastered at Metropolis Studios.

***

Out now on all digital music platforms!
Find 'Dark' on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/44m8c2ycAvaw72wbddQ4uq

***
Lyrics 
(Now available on Lyrics Genius: https://genius.com/Saachi-sen-dark-lyrics)

[Verse 1]
There’ll come a time when you’ll find somebody doesn’t put you first
And there’ll come a time when you don’t know why you’re being hurt
The world is an unfair place and the way they behave, it doesn’t make sense
But I’m not gonna let them bring me down ‘cause a know what I’m worth, I know what I’m worth, yeah

People can be fools who think they know exactly what they want
They’ll make a set of rules, build a cabinet of files and stick you in a box
The eyes and the hair, the makeup and the sultry stare, are generally known
But colour is a card that they won’t play in a clear way so I’ll say

[Chorus]
I am
Dark and I love my skin
And the bones I’m in
‘Cause they’re mine, and they’re what god gave me
Dark from the outside in
And I’m full of sin
For my pride and my vanity, vanity
Dark to my freeborn soul
All the hearts I stole
Are a sign that I’m really just a girl who’s
Dark and it stays my heart
Yeah it stays my heart
I wouldn’t change it for the world

[Verse 2]
Every single day there’s a way for somebody to put you down
You’ll take it as it goes, no-one knows, you’ll never even make a sound
They say you’re a fool and it’s in your head, add flames to the fuel with the things you’ve said but
I’m not gonna let them change my mind
When I’ve seen it with my eyes

[Chorus]
I am
Dark and I love my skin
And the bones I’m in
‘Cause they’re mine and they’re what god gave me
Dark from the outside in
And I’m full of sin
For my pride and my vanity, vanity

Dark to my freeborn soul
All the hearts I stole
Are a sign that I’m really just a girl who’s
Dark and it stays my heart
Yeah it stays my heart
I wouldn’t change it for the world

[Instrumental]

[Bridge]
I didn’t wanna see this in my time
I wanna make a circle not straight lines
But everybody here is deaf and
Blind to the way they make you feel

[Chorus]
I am
Dark and I love my skin
And the bones I’m in
‘Cause they’re mine and they’re what god gave me
Dark from the outside in
And I’m full of sin
For my pride and my vanity, vanity
Dark to my freeborn soul
All the hearts I stole
Are a sign that I’m really just a girl who’s
Dark and it stays my heart
Yeah it stays my heart
I wouldn’t change it for the world
And I love my skin
And the bones I’m in
‘Cause they’re mine and they’re what god gave me
Dark from the outside in
And I’m full of sin
For my pride and my vanity, vanity
Dark to my freeborn soul
All the hearts I stole
Are a sign that I’m really just a girl who’s
Dark and it stays my heart
Yeah it stays my heart
I wouldn’t change it for the world

[Outro]
Dark and it stays my heart, yeah it stays my heart
I wouldn’t change it for the world

©Saachi Sen 2019

Dark

'Flaunt' is a warm, playful pop song about having a trophy boyfriend.

This track was recorded at Spotify's Secret Genius Studio in London + Abbey Road Studios, and premiered by Atwood Magazine.
https://atwoodmagazine.com/sflt-saachi-sen-flaunt-song-premiere/

Now out on all platforms! https://smarturl.it/flaunt-single
Lyrics at https://genius.com/Saachi-sen-flaunt-lyrics
***

Saachi Sen is a pop singer-songwriter from London, previously a resident artist at Camden’s Roundhouse and recipient of PRS for Music’s Lynsey de Paul songwriting prize. 2019 saw her reach the longlist of Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition and play to 10,000 at Pride in London in Trafalgar Square. Her sensitive songwriting, with influences from Suzanne Vega to Gabrielle Aplin, won her a semifinalist place in the International Songwriting Competition this year.

For more info, visit www.saachisen.com/epk

Flaunt

"Don't Say It" is a driven electro-pop track created with up and coming producer Sam Ellwood. It was premiered on radio by BBC Introducing, with presenter Linda Sercks branding it 'awesome'.

Out now on all streaming platforms!

***

Saachi Sen’s lyrical alt-pop has won support from the likes of Atwood Magazine, Spotify’s ‘Women of Indie India’, and a plethora of songwriting awards – including PRS for Music’s Lynsey de Paul prize and a Semi-Finalist place in the International Songwriting Competition. With influences from Don McLean to Lauv, her emotive music has also seen her take the stage at one of her city’s biggest events, performing to 10,000 people in Trafalgar Square for Pride in London 2019. 

Saachi is currently working on her debut EP and will release her first music video this Autumn.

Find out more via www.saachisen.com/epk.

Don't Say It

singer-songwriter, firmware engineer :)

https://saachisen.com/epk
saachisen.music@gmail.com

saachisen

Popular tracks