Artist Making Waves: Pepa Knight [folk pop / world / dream pop]

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Cameron "Pepa" Knight is a musician and vocalist from the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia and is known as the co-frontman of tropical dream pop band Jinja Safari. Now, as Pepa Knight, he is releasing solo tracks, as part of an upcoming collection called Hypnotized, which were written and originally recorded (then accidentally deleted from his computer) during several trips to India from 2011-2013. On these trips he fine-tuned his sitar-playing skills, learned a handful of other Indian instruments, and recorded various samples, all of which play an integral part in crafting his dreamy brand of worldly folk pop.

'Rahh!' is the first original Pepa Knight single to be released in support of Hypnotized, which is being recorded in his backyard tipi studio. According to Knight, "it was originally written on [his] first trip to India and all [he] wanted to do at the time was to escape everything and become a sadhu [hermit]." That's essentially what drives this euphoric song, the desire for change, or something more.

Watch the extremely fun video for 'Rahh!' below, followed by a beautiful Peter Gabriel cover and a recent track by the young Melbourne electronic musician Japanese Wallpaper on which Pepa Knight lends his ethereal vocals.