Azusena is a pop enigma and a creative polymath: feeding her imagination through bold, experimental pop hooks, and back through the accompanying visuals. Her first debut single, Crosby, combines the musical simplicity of Lykke Li or Zero 7 with a warm, cinematic vocal line reminiscent of Portishead’s Beth Gibbons or Cocteau Twins’ Elizabeth Fraser. The 23 year old, who was born in New York is also a vast mix of British, Iranian, Native American, Black and Italian. She grew up between England and America and attributes the power of the mantra as the driving force behind much of her music. “My dad was on a spiritual journey to becoming a Yogi while I was growing up and shared a lot of meditational Indian music and enlightening books with me – over the course of the past four years I got into meditating and doing mantras in the morning.” Long notes drone throughout several of her tracks – drums carry with them a hypnotic beat – the power of the mantra is edifying throughout her music.