But, knowing when to stop tinkering and share her projects with the world wouldn’t have moved as quickly without digital platforms like BandLab, which Kajaryia discovered a few years ago. “There was nothing on this planet like BandLab,” she says. “I found [it] and fell in love. I was working in that system almost every single day until I knew the ins and outs.” Beyond the production tools, the platform has been part of how she’s started bridging the gap between making music in private and sharing it in public. Earlier this year, Kajaryia says she attended BandLab’s Atlanta pop-up event, where she connected with other artists. In a city with as deep a musical history as Atlanta, Kajaryia is taking full advantage of opportunities like it. “It’s pretty active,” she says of her live presence. “I try to do anything like open mics or things of that nature to just share my music.”
A new single, “Catch a Fade,” is set to drop before the summer; a track she’d originally intended for The Sunshine Project before deciding it deserved space of its own. “I felt like something was missing about it,” she explains. “So I kind of dropped it from the album and wanted to release it as a single.” Another album, she says, is already in motion before the year is out.
For an artist who spent years waiting until she was sure, Kajaryia’s creative growth speaks to a whole new kind of readiness. “I’m always in the thinking process of things,” she says, “what I could make new, what could be next. Just doing everything outside of my horizon.”
