Amanda Diva 2.0 translates truth through soul, hip-hop and house on Truth Translator

Amanda Diva 2.0’s Truth Translator - Technicolor Lover arrives on 14 June with a title that sounds like both a mission statement and a superhero job description. The project is written and produced by Amanda Diva 2.0, with recording at Ministry of Magic Studio and mastering by Beyond Analog, which gives it the satisfying feeling of a self-directed independent work rather than a committee-assembled genre exercise. The tags move through jazz, R&B, hip-hop, house, soul and reggae, and that spread suggests music built from movement, voice and colour. The phrase Truth Translator is the real hook. It implies an artist taking messy lived experience and converting it into something rhythmic, melodic and usable. Independent soul and hip-hop often work best when personality leads the production instead of the other way around. This release seems to understand that. It wants to groove, but it also wants to say something.

Source: https://amandadiva.bandcamp.com/album/truth-translator