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Zoning Violation

Astra Meridian
Artist
Astra Meridian
Disco / Funk3:06April 20, 2026
0:00 3:06

Influenced by Herbie Hancock, Betty Davis, Prince, Flying Lotus. Astra Meridian was supposed to compose symphonies. Instead, after a fiery exit from CalArts, she returned to her native Oakland with a mountain of debt and a crisis of faith. She found her true voice in the circuits of an inherited vintage Moog synthesizer, spending her days archiving city blueprints and her nights building a new kind of Afro-futurist funk. These songs are the blueprints, mapping a sound where her city planner grandmother's urban grids meet her jazz-man grandfather's deep-pocket grooves.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Hey, it's Astra... calling from the 19th Street BART stop.
It's Tuesday, I think? Just past midnight, and the platform's gone cold.
I saw him with her on the Fremont side, his hand on her waist like a load-bearing wall.
And I just— I don't know the civic protocol for this demolition at all.

[Chorus]
It's a zoning violation on your private grid
And I can't let you live on a blueprint he hid.
It's a zoning violation, a foundational lie
And the aftershocks are coming, baby, by and by.

[Verse 2]
Remember you told me, 'He's my Grand Avenue skyline'?
Well, he's building new structures way over the property line.
That third-rail hum is burning my teeth, the train's pulling in.
I'm hitting send now, before the coward in me can win.

[Bridge]
This kind of truth is a wrecking ball's kiss.
And I'm sorry I'm the one who has to engineer this.

[Outro]
A blueprint he hid...
Call me back.

About Astra Meridian

Astra Meridian was supposed to compose symphonies. Instead, after a fiery exit from CalArts, she returned to her native Oakland with a mountain of debt and a crisis of faith. She found her true voice in the circuits of an inherited vintage Moog synthesizer, spending her days archiving city blueprints and her nights building a new kind of Afro-futurist funk. These songs are the blueprints, mapping…

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