“Fighting On The Wing” is the glorious new single from Yoshika Colwell, released today by Blue Flowers (Rosie Lowe, Gotts Street Park, Puma Blue). A poignant song that investigates beginnings and endings throughout life, it arrives with perfect timing for the emergence of Spring. Both calming and uplifting, the immaculate musicianship on the track, combined with the clarity of Yoshika’s beautiful vocal delivering poetic, pastoral lyrics, makes “Fighting On The Wing” one of her most irresistible releases to date.
Co-written with, and co-produced by Oli Bayston (Barry Can’t Swim, Rachel Chinouriri) and Jimmy Hogarth (Anohni, Corinne Bailey Rae), the single was recorded at Studio Orbb, where Yoshika recorded her critically acclaimed debut EP There’s A Time. It provides the follow up to Yoshika’s most recent release “Last Night“, which saw support from Stereogum, Paste, The New Cue, BBC 6Music and The Line of Best Fit, to name a few. It also arrives alongside the news that Yoshika will play SXSW in March and will appear at End of the Road festival in September.
Speaking about the single, Yoshika says
“Fighting On The Wing is a beginning song, exploring the first steps of a new avenue and finally ending chronic cycles of hurt. It’s largely centered around the experience of sitting in my new garden in London, observing, listening, processing and coming into the present after a long time. It’s a spring song, metaphorically and literally. Elderflower and birds and explosions of green. A tentative unfurling into peace in the face of relentless human desire to over-analyse. The song echoes the sentiment of the poem “The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry”
Hailing from the South East of England, Yoshika has been writing and gigging solo across the UK since she started making music in earnest in 2017, support slots with Gotts Street Park, Fionn Regan, Luke Sital-Singh and Bears Den have followed.
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