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Birmingham, England is the home to experimental music artist, Tash Hagz. Hagz, who likes to boast of his 10k plus followers, even used one of its most ubiquitous features, as a clever play on words, to name himself. He doesn’t provide much information on his background, and how he got started in music. He simply describes his work as the White Album, meets divine comedy. He is unassailing, almost to the point of being, self-deprecating, yet his music seems more inspired than not.
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Tash Hagz’ newest single, “The Ballad Of Sanaleigh,” is a folk and psychedelic fused croon, that isn’t really a ballad. The lyrics are occasionally indecipherable, but the melody and the arrangement are rather outstanding. It’s the kind of song that most songwriters are incapable of crafting, or just plain, unwilling. Tash Hagz proves it’s less of a risk, and more of a right of passage, as he leaps into the piece, fully and proudly. The result is one of the most focused, and pure examples of psychadelia, that I’ve reviewed in some time.
While, Hagz makes no secret of the music he loves on “The Ballad Of Sanaleigh,” he ends up with something, quite original. It’s a song that somewhat defies any genre prejudice, and simply makes you want to hear more, out of sheer curiosity. Most songwriters romanticize the notion of breaking the rules, but most don’t dare to. In this case, Tash Hagz doesn’t so much break the rules, as he proves that even the wildest of ideas, can succeed. Based on that description, you would think this is some kind of Avant Garde piece. The truth is, is that “The Ballad Of Sanaleigh” is as coherent and fundamental as anything, but it’s also entirely uninhibited.
Tash Hagz seems to play down any sense of ambition, but it comes off as maintaining a safe distance of modesty.
It’s quite possible, that he feels he is short on peers. Psychedelic influenced music is still somewhat accessible in the U.K., at least the type that draws from the originators. The genre, as a whole though, is more associated with a cultural movement, or a moment in time. The truth is, is that Psychedelic Rock was intended to evolve and grow, like any other style of music. In many ways, its surrealistic and hypnotic texture, is the perfect soundtrack for an era of absurdity.
With “The Ballad Of Sanaleigh,” we get something that is true to its creator’s nature. Tash Hagz is the kind of artist, who communicates his sincerest feelings, through his music. There is an unforgettable bridge on “The Ballad Of Sanaleigh,” that is better experienced, than described. It’s almost at that point, that I began to see Tash Hagz, a bit more clearly. He would rather his music, speak for him, than to dive too deep into any biographical material. He knows that the best stories, have a voice, a beat, a rhythm, and a few twists along the way.
by Mark Ryan
