Chasing Desire
Ayşe Hassan, best known as the bassist for Savages, pushes into new territory with Esya, her evolving solo project. Fresh from touring as part of Daniel Avery’s live band and playing bass on Kim Deal’s 2024 track “Big Ben Beat,” Chasing Desire sees Hassan forge a new musical identity, blending her distinctive bass work with synths, electronics and programmed beats, while singing on record for the first time. Released via AOK Records, the album features contributions from Jessy Lanza and Sharon Van Etten and marks a confident new chapter rooted in reinvention and DIY spirit.
This album expands her previous sonic explorations into the antithetical nature of longing: from the yearning to be with someone again, to the obsession of embracing a path unknown.
Esya wrestles with these fundamentally human impulses through a vastly broadened sound palette with the addition of cello, violin, piano, and electric guitar into her pre-existing synth and bass-heavy sound; thanks to collaborations from a plethora of her musical contemporaries such as Jessy Lanza, Sharon Van Etten, Laura-Mary Carter, Giungla, Rodrigo D’Erasmo and Lee Tesche.
The album opens with Fallen – a triumphant war-cry against fearing the unknown; then dives head-first into the contradictions of her industrial pop sound, from the playful titular arpeggiating R&B-banger Chasing Desire; to the brooding, discordant Lullaby. It is all tied together with sub-forward and often wild drum programming to ensure that you will be compelled to dance, even in your darkest hour.
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Chasing Desire
Ayşe Hassan, best known as the bassist for Savages, pushes into new territory with Esya, her evolving solo project. Fresh from touring as part of Daniel Avery’s live band and playing bass on Kim Deal’s 2024 track “Big Ben Beat,” Chasing Desire sees Hassan forge a new musical identity, blending her distinctive bass work with synths, electronics and programmed beats, while singing on record for the first time. Released via AOK Records, the album features contributions from Jessy Lanza and Sharon Van Etten and marks a confident new chapter rooted in reinvention and DIY spirit.
This album expands her previous sonic explorations into the antithetical nature of longing: from the yearning to be with someone again, to the obsession of embracing a path unknown.
Esya wrestles with these fundamentally human impulses through a vastly broadened sound palette with the addition of cello, violin, piano, and electric guitar into her pre-existing synth and bass-heavy sound; thanks to collaborations from a plethora of her musical contemporaries such as Jessy Lanza, Sharon Van Etten, Laura-Mary Carter, Giungla, Rodrigo D’Erasmo and Lee Tesche.
The album opens with Fallen – a triumphant war-cry against fearing the unknown; then dives head-first into the contradictions of her industrial pop sound, from the playful titular arpeggiating R&B-banger Chasing Desire; to the brooding, discordant Lullaby. It is all tied together with sub-forward and often wild drum programming to ensure that you will be compelled to dance, even in your darkest hour.
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Ayşe Hassan, best known as the bassist for Savages, pushes into new territory with Esya, her evolving solo project. Fresh from touring as part of Daniel Avery’s live band and playing bass on Kim Deal’s 2024 track “Big Ben Beat,” Chasing Desire sees Hassan forge a new musical identity, blending her distinctive bass work with synths, electronics and programmed beats, while singing on record for the first time. Released via AOK Records, the album features contributions from Jessy Lanza and Sharon Van Etten and marks a confident new chapter rooted in reinvention and DIY spirit.
This album expands her previous sonic explorations into the antithetical nature of longing: from the yearning to be with someone again, to the obsession of embracing a path unknown.
Esya wrestles with these fundamentally human impulses through a vastly broadened sound palette with the addition of cello, violin, piano, and electric guitar into her pre-existing synth and bass-heavy sound; thanks to collaborations from a plethora of her musical contemporaries such as Jessy Lanza, Sharon Van Etten, Laura-Mary Carter, Giungla, Rodrigo D’Erasmo and Lee Tesche.
The album opens with Fallen – a triumphant war-cry against fearing the unknown; then dives head-first into the contradictions of her industrial pop sound, from the playful titular arpeggiating R&B-banger Chasing Desire; to the brooding, discordant Lullaby. It is all tied together with sub-forward and often wild drum programming to ensure that you will be compelled to dance, even in your darkest hour.
