Concert Review: Treya Lam Plants A Seedling of Hope In Joe´s Pub
Treya Lam is an example of something I, myself, and so many fellow artists want to learn, need to know, but do not always remember: healing matters. What you put out into the universe does matter, especially in art. I think that is why some artists bash ¨mainstream because there is a feeling that the bigger you get, lower your voice actually becomes: a distance growing between what you want to say to the world versus what you think the world will pay to hear. At Joe´s Pub, performing Otherland: A Seedling, people paid to hear Treya heal, and bring a squad of ethereal dancers to express it.
Lam does not make music that is without purpose. All her songs are reflective of some kind of hope that the world will ¨get it;¨ that maybe if enough of us heard her song or music like a pathway to healing we would, actually, do it: heal. Going to such a show, in a time like this, meant something to the NYC crowd. It gave them an olive branch of peace during period of life that feels so far from it. In an odd way, Lam was like silence to us: calming and palpable with messages and backed by dance movements and staged ritual that said, ¨It is okay to listen. Now is the best time to hear!¨
It is always funny to describe an artist as silent and quiet because THEY are singing and speaking to an entire crowd. I guess what I really want to say is that Treya Lam, in a circle of artists that aim to excite, tries to assure her crowd rests: putting their daily armor down to ask themselves why do they even pick it up. She arises in a time when people need their ¨pocket artist:¨ someone to make them feel like their life is a statement, even when they have no clue what to say about the world they live in.
Sure, we all love our T-Swizz and our Olivia Rodrigos, but there is always a handful of artists that, may not be or ever will do Harry Styles or Beyoncé tours. Yet, they do not need to nor was it their artistic purpose or destiny. They are the artists we hold in our pockets for the times when we do not want to dream big or fantasize, but instead want ground ourselves in hope. Treya Lam is hope. For More Information On Treya Lam Click Here.
