A collaboration with Issachar Productions based in Los Angeles and Kingston Jamaica. Lyrics and Vocals by Sariyah Idan. Mixed by Tina Malia. Mastered at Sonic Vista Studios. 

Photo by Lisha Riabinina

Not Afraid Mixtape

Tell Me

Sariyah Idan - Tell Me

written and produced by Sariyah Idan
engineered and co-produced by Andy Schlegel 
recorded at Tricone Studios Funkhaus & Viktoria Studios Berlin
mastered by Dave Locke

Sariyah Idan - vocals, guitar, bass
Stefan Fuhr - bass
Jerome Bonapart - drums
Amoy Ribas - percussion
Christian Dawid - saxophone
Andy Schlegel - drum programming

LYRICS
you swallowed the divide & conquer serving a digitized master 
chasing after numbers what truth do they tell
you isolate rip apart imperfections stare down societies reflections
bloody past bloody present but your own health you’ve gone neglecting
power alway places outside amassing wealth for consumer pride
your fortress piled high with useless things once made you smile
you’re warring with yourself on best actions to move cultural wealth
out hands of greed’s manipulation but with your sisters engage competition

you can’t dispel dark feeling unworthy of love
no you can’t dispel dark feeling unworthy of love
so rise up star to some you’re a sun
yeah rise up star to some you’re sun 

and shine

Breaking Shadows

Shine

SHINE

written by Sariyah Idan
produced, engineered & mixed by Lynne Earls at EMp Studios, Los Angeles
mastered by Dave Locke

Sariyah Idan - vocals, guitars
Jennifer Condos - bass
Jay Bellerose - drums
Daniel K Mandelman - keys, melodica

LYRICS
that other woman, she ain’t no good for you
the way she treats your body, ain’t like i do
she toxifies your blood, so that your beauty mind can’t think
the way that i love you, praises up all you be

so let me love you
you know you know i do
let me love you
do you think i can’t with my light hue
let me love you
you know you know i do
let me love you
let my love, my love get through
 
you’re under pressure from everyone around
expecting you to be someone other than the you you’ve found
you’re not predator or HBCU star, you got ideas of your own
i just want to stand by you, celebrate what you grow

so let me love you
you know you know i do
let me love you
do you think i can’t with my light hue
let me love you
you know you know i do
let me love you
let my love, my love get through

you know you can trust me boo
what must i do to get through to you
the walls you build between us
you push me away but i know you don’t mean it
i know you got your demons dude
i got a few too
but one day we can surely rest
in arms of mutual respect
but she’s got a hold on you
she’s a beautiful bitch and i don’t blame you
but she’s killing you softly with her calming hands
i’m jealous but not why i make these demands
someone’s got to get through to you
you’re dulling your brilliance deception’s hue
if not for me than for your seeds
let her go let her go please

and let me love you
you know you know i do
let me love you
do you think i can’t with my light hue
let me love you
you know you know i do
let me love you
let my love, my love get through

that other woman, she ain’t no good for you
let me love you, do you think i can’t with my light hue
that other woman, no no she ain't no good
let me love you 
let my love, my love get through

Let Me

LET ME

Remix by Lacey IQ of Let Me from album "Breaking Shadows". 
Released May 1st 2020 on all major platforms and Bandcamp.
Includes samples of original instruments recorded at EMP Studios LA, including Sariyah on jazz guitar, Daniel K Mandelman on piano and melodica, Jay Bellerose on drum kit.

Original track: https://bit.ly/sariyah-letme-spoti
Full album: https://bit.ly/sariyah-breakingshadows-spoti

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LET ME - Lacey IQ REmix

Let Me - Lacey IQ Remix

Releasing June 26th on all major platforms. Second remix from album "Breaking Shadows".  Features samples from the original instruments recorded at Funkhaus in Berlin, including, Sariyah on guitar & bass, and Christian Dawid on Saxophone.  Original track http://bit.ly/sariyah-shine-spoti Full album https://bit.ly/sariyah-breakingshadows-spoti

Shine - Bboy Wicket Remix

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Shine - BBoy Wicket Remix

Haj i Ji's downtempo remix of "Vibe" is the third remix from "Breaking Shadows", the debut LP by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalst Sariyah Idan that released October 2019. Haj i Ji is an eclectic producer, artist, and DJ. In addition to his new project Aazav, he was a founding member of the San Francisco based group Sub Swara and Brooklyn underground party Freek Factory. For this remix Haj sampled Sariyah's vocals from both "Vibe" and the "Prayer" interlude (also from the "Breaking Shadows" album) along with other instruments from the original recording which Sariyah produced in Berlin, including her guitar and the klezmer vibe clarinets/sax performed by Christian Dawid.

Original track from the "Breaking Shadows" album: 
https://sariyahidan.bandcamp.com/track/vibe

LYRICS
i just dig your vibe, your expansive mind
how your sad eyes shine, won’t you spend time with me
won’t you spend some time

you’re like sunrise after pulse of night
palms wave gold doves purr in flight
your stride a bounce ready to fight
souljah of cease fire ignite
higher through you amplify
like a telescope you magnify
when you let me into where you hide
i just bask in your sweet vibe
bright knight among thieves with alibis
who steal your praise yet still you shine
press story to page griot magi
stimulate my drive to shake lies
you my ultimate i won’t debate
when the jealous ones they can’t relate
master of agitate
crafting a world of better fate
won’t you spend some time

i just dig your vibe, your expansive mind
how your sad eyes shine, won’t you spend time with me
won’t you spend some time

but in solitude we cultivate
under pressure heat encapsulate
new fire to articulate in service to the magistrate
but do you register when the diamonds bust
on the thrill of hush i’m wondrous 
the way you feel is glorious
so why you hide in allusion
my body body needs some loving lovely
ready to be yummy give me all your honey
from inside i wind you the river bed
i lay it down we both get fed
i’m the wild one you the moving sun
we perfect union time elusive one
but i believe we can carve time out
if we both kick the habit doubt
we could spend some

i just dig your vibe, your expansive mind
how your sad eyes shine, won’t you spend time with me
won’t you spend some time

Haj i Ji - remixer/producer
Sariyah Idan - vocals, guitar, songwriter, composer
Clarinets & Sax - Christian Dawid

Andy Schlegel (Berlin)- Recording Engineer for "Vibe"
Rita Senhor (Lisbon) -  Recording Engineer for "Prayer"
Dave Locke - Mastering Engineer

Vibe - Haj i Ji Remix

Vibe - (Haj i Ji Remix)

Pronounced "SAH-ree-yah Ee-dAn"
Sariyah Idan is a New York bred and New Orleans based independent singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, dancer, and educator. Jazz and folk trained, hip-hop educated, and influenced by both Latinx/Caribbean sounds and her Jewish roots, she has an "ability to seamlessly combine a wide variety of disparate styles and sonics into a memorable sound all her own," (Tinnitist). She views honoring the sounds of both influences and ancestors as a form of cultural activism while her lyricism is hailed as "powerful, soulful, spirited songs filled with stories of struggle, love and social justice" (Fusicology).  
Sariyah’s music has featured on Pacifica and NPR stations, WWOZ, college and online radio platforms. She’s rocked iconic venues The Kennedy Center in DC,  Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, Nuyorican Poets Cafe in NYC, PANDA Platforma in Berlin, French Quarter Fest, regularly plays House of Blues NOLA, and is the host/producer of monthly event Songs For The People at The Howlin’ Wolf. In 2019 she was a Virginia Giordono Memorial Fund Honoree for performances of her debut LP “Breaking Shadows” recorded in Los Angeles, Berlin, and Lisbon. Her first album recorded in New Orleans, “Glitter & Blood”, releases in fall 2023 and is a continued collaboration with Berlin based engineer/co-producer Andy Schlegel.
Sariyah has shared stages with legends Pete Seeger, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Yusef Lateef. As a regular street performer in New Orleans she is known among locals as “the most hauntingly beautiful voice of New Orleans’ streets.”

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