Realma - Ashgrey Butterfly [Fairyland Version] (Live @ Jevremovac Botanical Garden)
A nostalgic, coming-of-age reminiscence 🦋🪁
Inspired by the vivacious flora and fauna found in spring and summer, this version of Realma's single 'Ashgrey Butterfly' is invigorated by the musical motifs and textures that mimic the natural environment to depict an imaginary fairyland🍃
Performed with atypical string techniques, sentimental oboe passages and exotic tarabuka rhythms, enjoy this delicate and lighthearted audiovisual homage to nature, filmed at the charismatic Jevremovac Botanical Garden in Belgrade 🎻
Special thanks to Jevremovac Botanical Garden for an incredible chance to shoot the video at this delightful and idyllic location dedicated to the cultivation and preservation of flora:
https://jevremovac.baza.rs/
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//LYRICS
Ash
Grey
Have you ever felt
Like a puzzle piece
Misplaced
Into the wrong box
Mmm
Well, I always feel
A bit lost
Unable to fit in
Unable to pretend
Oh no
I can't
Like an
Ashgrey butterfly
Flapping its wings
Barely
Defying the colour obsession
Of buzzing bees
Why do I fly differently
Without a place to belong
Anywhere
Anywhere
Have you ever felt
Like you're out of tune
Just slightly
Sticking out
Mmm
Well, I always feel
A bit like
I am in a different key
Like an
Ashgrey butterfly
Flapping its wings
Barely
Defying the colour obsession
Of buzzing bees
Ooooh
Unable to fit in
Ooooh
Unable to harmonise
With the rest
I can't
Ooooh
Ooooh
Why do I fly differently
Is there anybody else
Anybody else
Anywhere
Anywhere
Ashgrey butterfly
Among the buzzing bees
That are colour obsessed
Ashgrey butterfly
Among the buzzing bees
Ashgrey butterfly
Among the buzzing bees
Grey
//CREDITS
Lyrics, composition & arrangement by Realma (Ariadna Vrljanović-Zhao)
//PERFORMERS
Vocal & keyboard - Realma (Ariadna Vrljanović-Zhao)
String Quartet:
First Violin - Katarina Božić
Second Violin - Nevena Tatomirović
Viola - Tijana Stojiljković
Violoncello - Stanislava Marinković
Oboe - Milana Zinajić
Tarabuka & shaker - Novica Vujović
//CREW
Videography, filming, editing & directing - Milica Staletović / Studio Staletović https://www.studiostaletovic.com/
Sound recording, mixing and mastering - Marko Perić
Sound editing - Ariadna Vrljanović-Zhao
Camera and production assistant - Dejan Tosić
//VENUE
Jevremovac Botanical Garden, Belgrade, Serbia
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//ABOUT THE SONG
Adorn with a tinge of psychedelic verve, Realma’s newfangled, buoyant single ‘Ashgrey Butterfly’ tackles social burnout through a Dickinson-esque nature motif and a subtle taste of irony. Gazing through neo-symbolism once more, Realma paints a whimsical fay scenery in her newest single, ‘Ashgrey Butterfly’, while addressing real-life concerns of social burnout, loneliness and depression prevalent in modern adolescence and young adulthood. Although, on the surface, the twinkly music exudes a dreamy, euphoric nostalgia in an almost psychedelic mix of orchestral and synth-infused textures, the ambiguous lyrics are poignant in their sobering slice of irony.
//ABOUT THE ARTIST
Otherworldly. Transformative. Postmodern. Meet Realma - a sorceress at the heart of a songwriter.
Born out of a hurtful period of loosing the self, Realma is an intimate musical alter-ego of a polymodal artist trying to reclaim her identity. Using otherworldly sonorities and narratives to confront the everyday in all its light and dark hues, Realma begun wielding the medium of songwriting as a transformative force that offers a state of reverie and escape.
Like disparate realms reflected in the crystals of a sorceress, Realma's songs manifest divergent themes through the influence of different musical genres. Fused together by the omnipresent witchy quality, her music is both atavistic and postmodern, gloomy and empowering, but most of all filmic and life-like.
Realma represents an independent, long-term audiovisual collaboration between a worldwide group of talented young artists.
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