Nashville-based singer-songwriter Nanseera releases her new single ‘Poison Rain’ : A stark, gothic folk track written in direct response to the US Supreme Court’s ruling to significantly weaken the Voting Rights Act
Born in London and raised across Uganda, Ethiopia and the United States, Nanseera brings an old soul and poignant lyricism shaped by a lifetime of movement and adjustment. ‘Poison Rain’ channels that global perspective into pointed political commentary, pairing an apocalyptic yet hopeful tone with the intimacy of what she calls “back porch gothic”: a sound built on acoustic guitar, dobro, banjo, upright bass, drumset and voice.
Nanseera wrote the track after weeks of trying and failing to put the ruling into words. The breakthrough came during a solo session at the Song Suffragettes House on Music Row in Nashville, where the song finally came together in one sitting. She recorded it soon after in a friend’s home studio across three sessions, the fastest turnaround of any release in her catalogue.
“This change isn’t getting the media attention it merits, especially given how central the Voting Rights Act was to the Civil Rights Movement,” Nanseera says. “We do not yet live in a racism free world, and our systems need to reflect that. Without protections in place to compensate for our learned biases, we are sure to repeat the mistakes of the past.”
Drawing comparison to artists such as Rhiannon Giddens, Jesse Welles, Gillian Welch, Allison Russell and Joy Oladokun, Nanseera continues to build on a growing catalogue that has already earned her multiple New Music Friday placements across Spotify Africa’s Uganda, Kenya and South Africa playlists, alongside three podcast interviews. A second single and full album are set to follow later this year.
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