Rose Bonica’s “Those Memories Didn’t Stick” is a piece suspended between nostalgia and the blank spaces where memory should be. Originally written for Rose’s debut album, the track resurfaces now with new meaning after the birth of her first child.
Where once the song spoke of lost recollections and fractured timelines, it now holds space for the intimate, chaotic beauty of early motherhood. The sleepless nights, the rocking, the swaying, the looping rhythms of soothing a newborn.
“Sleep tight baby”, the track whispers,not as a lullaby in silence, but as a lullaby inside the noise. The steady pulse beneath the chaos. The world reshaped around new life.
Rose Bonica’s future-forward sounds distill the full range of human experience. Apply every colour in the spectrum of the soul. The tranquillity of her hometown, Hout Bay. The isolating despair of lockdown. The hope found in true love and the liberty in forgiveness. Releases across Jamz Supernova’s Future Bounce, Machine Woman’s Take Away Jazz Records and her own Roses Are Red tell the story of an artist who will never stop inventing. One who demands you expect the unexpected; protect the long neglected.
She is darkness and light, tearing each other apart to form something new. Something all-encompassing.
Listen to ‘Those Memories Didn’t Stick’ and ‘Sleep Tight Baby’ on Bandcamp here
Press release courtesy of Rose Bonica
