Arima Ederra recently announces her new album An Orange Colored Day, out next Friday, October 7th. Along with the announcement, Arima also shares her new single “Steel Wing.” The single is the latest from the full-length that Arima first teased with her 2018 single “Free Again” and the recently-released “Portals,” which V Magazine lauded as “the beginning of a new era for Ederra,” saying it “encapsulates the growth of her artistry chronicling contemplation of feelings and unraveling memories into a diary disguised as an LP.”

Speaking on how “Steel Wing” came to her, Arima says: “When the former president put a ban on refugees in 2017, I remember sitting in my room very angry and couldn’t help but think about my family in East Africa. When the news came, a melody followed, kind of in the form of a chant. I recorded a little voice note of it, tucked it away and didn’t really think much of it til later in the year. When we started making the music, it felt like a soundtrack to my rebellious teen years and I felt called to explore the parallels of my youth to my father’s journey as a refugee. The hook is kind of like a conversation between the two of us. Steel wing pays homage to not only my family, but all refugees, women and young girls to continue to take up space, rebel and explore their curiosity and freedom in everything they do.”

An Orange Colored Day has steadily materialized over the course of the last four years, as Arima takes her makeshift sonic diary of phone voice memos and builds them out into personal stories. The record shifts both sonically and thematically between blissful imagination and spirituality, and the sharper realities of adulthood, facing grief and lost love, with both sides of Arima’s own experiences as the daughter of Ethiopian refugees resolutely centering it all. Produced alongside the likes of the talented Jon Bap and Teo Halm, Arima describes this forthcoming album as “a dynamic exploration of my continued journey through grief, growth, love and loss.”

Music and songwriting were inherently part of Arima’s upbringing as she discovered the power of mezmur, Ethiopian spiritual music, in the back of an Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Las Vegas where she was raised. That belief in the healing power of songs and stories flows through her own music, which she took with her as she found a home amongst like-minded peers and friends in Leimert Park, Los Angeles. In 2016, she released her celestial 2016 EP Temporary Fixes.

Arima Ederra
An Orange Colored Day
Tracklisting

1. Letters from the Imaginary
2. Free Again
3. Steel Wing
4. Drugz/Wooden Wheel
5. Message
6. Loverman
7. Portals
8. Orange Colored Day
9. Yellow Cabi
10. Fall For You
11. Dual Skies