For British alternative soul singer Tawiah, music is a “physical space that can be inhabited”. For artist AI Moore, poetry and writing are a “healing process of extraction and distillation.” And in Ertha, both these worlds come together. AI Moore and Tawiah describe their collaborative album ‘Ertha’ as the journey of a soul through the universe, from birth to death. The artists, who are a couple, will be performing at the G5A Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Mahalaxmi later this month. 

“I found great hope in exploring the realisation that the human journey is one of getting lost in order to be found, and that it is an unavoidable journey of adversity and suffering as we move far from who we really are,” Moore tells mid-day over email. The duo say they’re nervous but also excited to bring Ertha before the world. “Ertha was literally born of us both. It felt like magic to watch it go from a personal philosophy to words on a page to sounds that could create a world for anyone to step into,” Moore explains.