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Cantilever Soul

Astra Meridian
Artist
Astra Meridian
Disco / Funk3:04April 20, 2026
0:00 3:04

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]
The 51B rattles past Rockridge BART
Her fountain pen bleeds on a graph-paper grid
The evening cool sweats on the window pane
She's drafting a one-room life with a fire escape, a place she can be a kid

[Chorus]
(That's a cantilever soul)
Building it out past the breaking point
(That's a cantilever soul)
Drawing a future that he can't anoint

[Verse 2]
She's checking the math on the load-bearing lines
Rebar for a backbone, insulation for peace
Factoring in the specific seismic ache
"He'll never look for me here," she writes in the margin, a prayer for release

[Chorus]
(That's a cantilever soul)
Building it out past the breaking point
(That's a cantilever soul)
Drawing a future that he can't anoint

[Bridge]
And I wanna scream for her right through the glass
Every new line is a brick in the wall she's raising so fast

[Outro]
A new elevation, drawn against the night.
Build it high now. Build it with light.

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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Who is Astra Meridian?

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