tendai returns with his new single, "SMN"
London-based vocalist, producer, and instrumentalist tendai has returned with the release of his brand new single, "SMN".
Following the release of "explain" and "red wine", tendai continues his introspective and evolving new era with "SMN" – a quietly arresting study of identity and self-reflection.
“I wrote this song about myself, at a time when I was thinking about identity, my own and also as an artist. I see it as a conversation between my younger self and older self. Although ‘SMN’ is my second name, it is the name I grew up with for most of my life. This changed when I became an artist and used my first name, ‘tendai’,” he says. “So to me, ‘SMN’ was my adolescence and ‘tendai’ my adulthood. I loved the idea of writing a song as my younger self: ‘do you still say my name’, almost translating into ‘do you still identify as me, are we still the same person?’”
"SMN" is out now.
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