Everything Happens Only Once is the first full length LP by Totemo. Having life turned upside down, overcoming breast cancer and undergoing a deconstruction of the home she knew, Totemo emerges the other side to create this 10 tracks piece. Following her critically acclaimed first EPs, the new album is the third collaboration with music producer Roey Avital (Garden City Movement). Together Totemo and Avital create intimate yet expanding songs, seductively beautiful.
Everything Happens Only Once is a journey of balanced stark contrasts. Elegant inventive pop is mixed with raw and exposed lyrics. Delicate organic sounds and vocals are weaved in sleek electronic precision. East Asian influences are intertwined with dreamy synths, forming futuristic yet familiar qualities at the same time. After forming a home base of avid fans in Israel, in the coming year Totemo is going to tour Israel, Europe, China, Singapore, and Korea – bringing Everything Happens Only Once to life.
First single Fifty Words for Time is a dense capsule of innovative sound, in which Totemo’s reflective lyrics go through a wide range of emotion, dealing with her anxieties, and finding comfort and connection through music. It combines the most cutting edge electronic pop sound, mixed with traditional East Asian instruments, and Totemo’s soft and mesmerizing vocals.
Totemo: Fifty Words For Time
Totemo: Fifty Words For Time Lyrics:
silence is not the enemy
but I need fifty words for time just to keep it down
silence is not the end of me
but I need fifty words for time just to keep it down
I need fifty words for time
one will do for now
I am free until I’m caught
this right here’s all I’ve got
and I can only say this until I’m out
I am alright until I’m not
I will hum it out
on and on, hum it out until forever
I just wanna get a reply
balancing fits of jealousy
well, I need fifty words for time just to keep it down
I need fifty words for time
one will do for now
