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Chasing Shadows

by ERIKA

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The Kitsune Collection is inspired by ERIKA's heritage and is based on Japanese folklore the Kitsune spirits. Each song will be connected with the characteristics of the “kitsune spirits” which is also tied into the human experience.

Chasing Shadows, the first single is based on Kukan 区間 the dark spirit. A song about the darkness within you and knowing you can walk alongside it by getting to know it rather than fearing it.

It amplifies ERIKA’s ability to create an emotive journey for the listener through the use of her vocals and arrangement skills as she says, “I want the listener to be propelled like an arrow into the first chorus and then to create momentum with a feeling of running into discomfort”.

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What can I do? When darkness comes?

Should I run away ?
Wish I could turn the card and face what’s coming

What would you say? When they put me down?

Should I stand my ground? Or do I hold those words pierce my body

When you step on the crack and you’re down on your luck
( It seems) that nothing can fill that hole
So you hold up the flame and look into dark
and you fill it with liquid gold


I’m Chasing Shadows, I’m not running away.
I'll step into the dark and I'll fight for tomorrow.


Broken in two when waves comes crashing down?
‘cause we know that they will
(Just as we know) that the sun will come up
Taking it on,
and I fill my heart with the colours of love.
They’re the simple joys that makes me lighter


Walking into the dark, chasing out all the shadows.
Looking into the deep, and stepping out in the shallows.

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released October 13, 2023
Written by: Erika Footman + Jimmy Sims
Produced by: Erika Footman + Jimmy Sims + Paul Stanborough
All vocals by: ERika Footman
Vocals recorded by: Mark Crew
Instrumentation: Jimmy Sims + Paul Stanborough + Erika Footman
Mixed and Mastered by Jonas Jalhay

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Independent artist and music maker ERIKA emerged from a life coloured by the musical corners of UK and Japan. Crafting beautiful and innovative pop, the mood can switch from haunting to joyous and from hope to despair from verse to verse.

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