Growing up around Baldwin Hills and Ladera Heights, she first encountered singing bowls as a teenager browsing in a local shop. 19 on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop chart, Aiko goes fully New Age - her clear, light soprano unadorned by anything besides the endlessly ringing bowls. On “ Trigger Protection Mantra,” a sort of sequel to “Chilombo”’s “Triggered (freestyle)” that reached No. She studies with Jeralyn Glass, a musician and sound healer who also works with SZA she even appeared at an event hosted by Glass last year, called Sacred Science of Sound. Though it may provoke skepticism in some less metaphysical music fans, learning about sound healing has been a lifelong process for Aiko - one that she approaches seriously and methodically. Each track on “Chilombo” features different singing bowls, complete with a guide to which chakras they’re meant to activate that Aiko posted on her Instagram. When rung, they produce tones meant to resonate with listeners at a cellular level, tapping into different chakras (a theory of human anatomy familiar to anyone who’s taken a yoga class). She explains “Chilombo”’s concept: sound healing, not simply in the conventional way we think about music as therapeutic but through a specific system of crystal singing bowls. From homegrown jazz to furious punk to raw hip-hop recorded from prison, these 10 albums highlight L.A.'s creative spirit in a hard-scrabble year for musicians.
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