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LONG ISLAND, NY — Tabytha Polaris has spent years helping people through holistic healing, essential oils, guided meditation and sound healing, but lurking in the background of her life, with a box full of half-completed lyrics and melodies, was the musician she always yearned to be.
The new four-song EP “Elemental Codes,” is Tabytha Polaris the singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist breaking out to “entertain people while expanding their consciousness,” Polaris said. “I was inspired to write these songs about the healing powers of water, air, fire and earth. My intention was to fulfill a life dream of writing original music and step into my power as a recording artist,” Polaris said. “There’s something really magical about singing and performing in front of people. There’s a beautiful connection between everyone in the room, you can capture a moment with them and be one. It’s very healing.”
“It’s not necessarily them admiring me, it’s us together experiencing a beautiful moment of emotions and magic. My intention with this album was to have fun, follow my joy and to offer inspirational music but in a contemporary style. I wanted to shine positivity into the world, help others realize the power within and how they can use mother nature for healing during these challenging times.”
Polaris said she’s been a singer her whole life
“I’ve been a musician my whole life, I was a professional singer in elementary school, high school, college,” Polaris said. “I went to Tisch School of the Arts, studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and post graduation I was a studio musician. I did commercials, jingles and recorded vocals on other artists records. I was also signed to talent agencies performing in the cover band scene.”
But then she put music on the back burner for about a decade to dedicate her life to holistic healing eventually opening Hands in Harmony Holistic Spa in Franklin Square N.Y.
“When my Mom got sick I learned Reiki to help her through her cancer treatments, and she’s fine now,” Polaris said. “During that time I learned a lot about eating clean and removing toxins from your environment. I was learning and working with sound frequencies, reiki energy and vibration. After studying sound healing I began to incorporate healing music into my meditations and reiki sessions. I was really missing music and didn’t feel like myself so I joined a cover band and got my singing chops back.”
In 2019 she began writing songs again and realized something was missing in her life.
“Then when the whole world locked down, I had the time so I recorded a guided meditation album to balance the chakras called 7 Spheres of Light at Cove City Sound Studios. After that I had the confidence to bring my original music into the studio and began recording Elemental Codes.”
Polaris said she’s helped a number of people write their own songs and she had a box full of lyrics and half-written songs of her own she’d collected since her college days, but she had never really finished her own original music.
“I changed my mindset and I was like, I’m going to finish this song by myself. Water Codes was the first completed song and was written by singing to my Rev Vast drum. So that was a really special song for me because I wrote it by myself. Then I started to have dreams of songs. If there are muses, they opened up to me, I don’t know how you dream songs and get ideas throughout the day but it became like a floodgate of ideas. It was so magical.”
Then she sat down with a friend, David Connolly, and wrote Earth Codes
“He knew I was writing music so he sent me some guitar cords and we got together. I wrote the lyrics and the vocal melodies for Earth over his guitar chord progression,” Polaris said. “I brought him in the studio when I was recording. He laid down the guitar tracks and the mandolin and I played the flute solo. That was fun to have a co-writer who was also one of my best friends.
The other songs on “Elemental Codes” emphasize the other elements of Earth.
For “Air Codes,” Polaris said she researched the element of air and wrote little phrases that inspired her. The song was 80% complete and then finished it in the studio with her producer Brendan Keenan. “Fire Codes” was different.
“Fire Codes” was a song that came to me in a dream,” Polaris said. “I wrote that so quickly and it’s also inspired by what my true ultimate love would be in an alternate dimension, the perfect guy, and he turned out to be a dragon. Every time I would close my eyes and go to sleep I would be riding a dragon and I'd wake up and remember all these visions. I don’t know if they were real or not or if I'm traveling to different dimensions at night, whatever it was, it inspired me to write the song. I tied in the element of fire with divine love.”
Polaris says “Elemental Codes” was a labor of love and hopes it helps people in some way.
“I felt such a push to do this,” she said. “I feel like I'm very tapped into my intuition and I’m following my true path. If you get a nudge from the universe follow it, I believe the universe will conspire and help you. Just follow your joy and shine your light. I am so grateful for these songs and feel like they will lift people up.”
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Would Johnny Marr place one of his solo songs ahead of favourites from The Smiths and Electronic? His choices are revealed in NME’s Blind Ranking video below.
Ahead of the release of ‘The Age Of Everything’, which arrived last Friday, October 2, NME sat down with the guitarist for a look back through his catalogue. Marr was challenged to place five songs in order of greatness, choosing a position for each without knowing which song would follow.
Electronic’s ‘Getting Away With It’ came first, with Marr saying it “goes down very very well, even if people are hearing it for the first time”. Next came ‘Spin’, taken from his latest solo album. Reflecting on the newer song, he admitted that “not everybody knows it, but it makes an impression”.
When ‘This Charming Man’ by The Smiths came up, Marr observed: “Obviously it’s very well known, but it goes by so quick.” The track remains a “connection” to his younger self, he explained: “I can hear the young man who wrote those guitar parts”. He described his 2014 solo release ‘Easy Money’ as “pretty catchy”, adding that it “goes off bigger than any other at any gig”. He then considered another much loved Smiths song, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’.
“Beautiful song to play. Very proud of it still,” Marr reflected. Recalling a recent performance in Liverpool, he added that “it occurred to me that it’s the ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ of my generation.”
See where each song landed in Marr’s ranking by watching the video below, then share your own order in the Instagram comments.
The wider conversation with NME covered his “emphatic” album ‘The Age Of Everything’, his admiration for The Cure and Fontaines D.C., and his thoughts on why Andy Burnham should be able to listen to The Smiths. Read the complete interview with Marr here.
A Liverpool concert on November 14 is next on Marr’s schedule, followed by a brief run of dates with stops in Mexico, São Paulo and Chile. His largest solo headline performance to date at OVO Arena Wembley had been planned for later this month, but has been postponed, with a replacement date yet to be announced.
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