The personal poetics & pop of Bobbi Rush

The intimate & express works of Bobbi Rush; photograph courtesy of BlueFaceProject.

Bobbi Rush creates evocative arts that speaks to a level of intimacy that is often overlooked in the motions and meticulous schedules of the day. The Baltimore musician and author orchestrates an aesthetic in both word and audio textures that stirs the body and spirit with a sense of pause and pensive reflection that seeks a deeper understanding of the self, love language expressions and a greater connection with loved ones. All this and more can be gleaned from Rush’s latest two song couplet Lov. and literary labor of love Pussy that delivers a declaration and benediction to the ineffable and sublime power of self love and the experience of loving another in the present tense.

“Lov.” is a succinct lullaby love note that sings to the heart’s most treasured center. Bobbi Rush layers her vocals in an a capella arrangement that fashions minimalist overdubs into a maximalist bouquet of feeling painted from the heart. “LoveWaves.” continues the trajectory of unfiltered sentimentality with added sparse synths and percussion that ripples like sung whispers of affection. Bobbi abides by an understated lovers rock style that surrounds the listener in frequencies full of vibrancy and radiance. The tones and subdued production recalls sensuous interludes with a dedication to expressions of bodies in congress, intertwined together like hands folded and clasped together in a blend of unlimited adoration and sensualist adulations.

Bobbi Rush delivered the following prologue for the two part song cycle Lov.

I wanted to sing my truth about love. How I felt it to be seen.

PartTwo: Lov. Is a two song dedication. To my love, how I’ve experienced love. I wrote and produced this album. I was ready to sing something that I meant in this present moment.

Bobbi also shared the following preface/foreword for her second self-published book Pussy along with the following excerpts:

It speaks in the voice of a young woman who is speaking her fuller self into existence. Remembering a mother she lost while keeping who she wants to become, in mind. Expressing her love and need for freedom in spirituality and sexuality and emotional and spiritual well being.

Listen to more from Bobbi Rush via Spotify.