The Magician of Music. The Pope of Pop. The Enchanted Electro Extraordinaire. Lailien is the psychedelic anti-matter twin and alter-ego poet of creator Brad Shubat. Featured already on BBC Radio 6, Sirius XM, PopDust, The Line of Best Fit and numerous other media outlets all while amassing millions of plays, Lailien is trained classically in piano since the age of 5 and throughout life discovered a love of experimental electronic, pop, and rock sounds that fuel his creative imagination.
Lailien composes, writes the lyrics for, produces, sings, performs and directs all of his/her own original material. Sonically the result is something immediately intimate and gratifying yet new and exciting. Lailien makes what (s)he calls 'Eschatological A-Tune-ments': Music not for some looming cessation of time, but to reveal time's openings in an already omnipresent and accessible end in itself. For Lailien these finalities, which crucially are also always beginnings, are where one's immediate nexus of space and time is given superconductive pre-eminence. Musically this is done through peculiar and particular sonic modes of attention engaged with the immediacy of incarnate experience's full fledged charge of wonder. With a strong foundation in poetry and philosophy, Lailien writes in a lyrical register that reveals the common foundational absence that unites each self with its greater spirit. Through this space of negation, powerful emotive currents gesture towards and awaken a multidimensional orientation of body, psyche and soul. Lailien opens our historical moment into an intersecting connection with eternity, knowing that the profane and sacred share hidden connections while the culturally sanctioned trance is currently inadequate.
Lailien’s music is an exploration of the deepest, most pressing existential concerns of the human condition at our particular moment of historical crisis. It is both the recorded trace of his exploration and the archeological expedition itself for the listener to experience firsthand. For Lailien, music exists to actualize and activate the soul in place of and as the material world perpetually achieving nirvana in the process. Her artistry realizes that life is immensely difficult and tragic but nevertheless triumphs to catalyze, transform and heal in utterly revelatory, enlightening ways that re-integrate one with an understanding of the divine.