Daiana Feuer on February 21st, 2017

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With a two-minute intro setting the galactic-romantic mood, “Obsession” pairs synths and Japanese Koto strings with Harriet Brown‘s yearning pleas for 24 hours of love. It’s the first single from the artist’s debut full-length album, “Contact,” being released by Innovative Leisure on April 21. It follows “New Era,” his funky 2014 EP that introduced Los Angeles to his dynamic one-man show. “Contact” was composed, arranged, performed and co-produced by Brown, aka Aaron Valenzuela, who creates his songs using guitar, synths, loop pedal, samplers and other hardware but not a laptop. All the songs on the album deal with communication and ‘contact’ between the self and itself, and with friends, strangers, lovers, and other non-corporeal entities, all set to an exploratory, sensual soundtrack of funk and R&B created by this self-professed disciple of Prince and Sade.

Valenzuela took his band name from an ’80s song by Opal about a unique woman named Harriet Brown who mysteriously goes away one day after work and she’s missed by those she left behind, who wonder what sort of adventure she might be pursuing.