Truly, madly, sincerely...Sedona
Stairway styles with Sedona; photographed by Angela Ricciardi.
Once in a lifetime a schist happens in the arrangement of the cosmos that lord above us. Amid the order of astronomical sciences a cataclysm occurs and the narratives between the heavens and earth are interrupted as the astral plane and asteroid belts are beholden to a shooting star that fires from the furthest reaches of the galaxy en route for the destination of a humble blue globe. Like a molten bejeweled lantern speeding toward the surface of our lonely little planet, an ingenue is born from the shattering of light like an explosion of sparkling diamonds that arrives to alter the direction and course of the world that influences the culture of a sleepy populous that stares at the skies seeking a sign of inspiration.
Enter the era of Sedona, one of the brightest stars to cast a glow on the pop art circuits enamoring fans and fellow artists alike. Week in Pop was one of the first media hubs to debut the artist/multihyphenate/phenom with the phone tag feels of “Call Me Up” that introduced one of the most beloved chanteuses to the world. Announcing a highly anticipated album debut in the works, Sedona follows up the recent single “Domino” with the red hot fleeting flight of fancy titled “Touch & Go”. A musical missive on the unbridled energy of infatuation, the track is an exploration of desire that grows from the fringes of fantasy and into the visceral realm of carnal congress.
Sedona embodies the illuminated gestalt of the world’s best pop entertainers. Like your favorite singer / songwriters / industry mavens that cut their teeth on the Sunset Strip — she stands as a visionary that understands every component that comprises what a proper pop hit could be, should be and can be in the sum of all its corresponding parts. Everything from style, sound, sensibility, attitude, fashion, forms and presence is concocted together into something that the overused term ‘iconic’ can only begin to describe. Spanning an approach to artistry and artifice that understands the effectiveness of both the lo-fi and big production aesthetics in the art of the craft — Sedona has rapidly arrived as one of the most important pop stars of our time.
“Touch & Go” is a lusty ballad with a passionate intensity about a moment that was never meant to last. It is the chance meeting that felt otherwise impossible that can happen in a tryst that is tangled up in the sheets of the temporal. Like a heady 90s romantic thriller condensed into two minutes and twenty seconds; Sedona adapts an erotic slice of celluloid popcorn for the sensual streaming radio medium that sashays with the immediacy of a passing fling. And yet for all the recitations of a one night stand sort of exchange of hormonal hedonism, there is some real self-actualization at the very heart and core of the song. “Touch & Go” is a “Strangers in the Night” update that entertains the notion of people finding new manners of expression to one another and overcoming internalized fears and phobias that play out in other unconscious avenues. Sedona ponders the curious things that are discovered in the throes of impulsive passions and what deeper discoveries are found in the casual connection of the temporary touch.
The styles and stares of Sedona; photographed by Angela Ricciardi.
“These are a collection of my all time favorite songs and current ear-worms. Which are which? You decide.”
Paradox, “There’s a Flower Shop”
The Byrds, “You Ain’t Going Nowhere”
SWV, “Rain”
Buddy Holly, “That’ll Be the Day”
Gwen Stefani, “Crash”
The Stray Trolleys, “Gunslinger”
Fred Neil, “The Dolphins”
Lou Reed, “A Gift”
Sedona’s new single “Touch & Go” is available now everywhere.