Long Island-based singer releases mystical pop EP ‘Elemental Codes’

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LONG ISLAND, NY — Tabytha Polaris has spent years helping people through holistic healing, essential oils, guided meditation and sound healing, but lurking in the background of her life, with a box full of half-completed lyrics and melodies, was the musician she always yearned to be.

The new four-song EP “Elemental Codes,” is Tabytha Polaris the singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist breaking out to “entertain people while expanding their consciousness,” Polaris said. “I was inspired to write these songs about the healing powers of water, air, fire and earth. My intention was to fulfill a life dream of writing original music and step into my power as a recording artist,” Polaris said. “There’s something really magical about singing and performing in front of people. There’s a beautiful connection between everyone in the room, you can capture a moment with them and be one. It’s very healing.”

“It’s not necessarily them admiring me, it’s us together experiencing a beautiful moment of emotions and magic. My intention with this album was to have fun, follow my joy and to offer inspirational music but in a contemporary style. I wanted to shine positivity into the world, help others realize the power within and how they can use mother nature for healing during these challenging times.”

Polaris said she’s been a singer her whole life

“I’ve been a musician my whole life, I was a professional singer in elementary school, high school, college,” Polaris said. “I went to Tisch School of the Arts, studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and post graduation I was a studio musician. I did commercials, jingles and recorded vocals on other artists records. I was also signed to talent agencies performing in the cover band scene.”

But then she put music on the back burner for about a decade to dedicate her life to holistic healing eventually opening Hands in Harmony Holistic Spa in Franklin Square N.Y.

“When my Mom got sick I learned Reiki to help her through her cancer treatments, and she’s fine now,” Polaris said. “During that time I learned a lot about eating clean and removing toxins from your environment. I was learning and working with sound frequencies, reiki energy and vibration. After studying sound healing I began to incorporate healing music into my meditations and reiki sessions. I was really missing music and didn’t feel like myself so I joined a cover band and got my singing chops back.”

In 2019 she began writing songs again and realized something was missing in her life.

“Then when the whole world locked down, I had the time so I recorded a guided meditation album to balance the chakras called 7 Spheres of Light at Cove City Sound Studios. After that I had the confidence to bring my original music into the studio and began recording Elemental Codes.”

Polaris said she’s helped a number of people write their own songs and she had a box full of lyrics and half-written songs of her own she’d collected since her college days, but she had never really finished her own original music.

“I changed my mindset and I was like, I’m going to finish this song by myself. Water Codes was the first completed song and was written by singing to my Rev Vast drum. So that was a really special song for me because I wrote it by myself. Then I started to have dreams of songs. If there are muses, they opened up to me, I don’t know how you dream songs and get ideas throughout the day but it became like a floodgate of ideas. It was so magical.”

Then she sat down with a friend, David Connolly, and wrote Earth Codes

“He knew I was writing music so he sent me some guitar cords and we got together. I wrote the lyrics and the vocal melodies for Earth over his guitar chord progression,” Polaris said. “I brought him in the studio when I was recording. He laid down the guitar tracks and the mandolin and I played the flute solo. That was fun to have a co-writer who was also one of my best friends.

The other songs on “Elemental Codes” emphasize the other elements of Earth.

For “Air Codes,” Polaris said she researched the element of air and wrote little phrases that inspired her. The song was 80% complete and then finished it in the studio with her producer Brendan Keenan. “Fire Codes” was different.

“Fire Codes” was a song that came to me in a dream,” Polaris said. “I wrote that so quickly and it’s also inspired by what my true ultimate love would be in an alternate dimension, the perfect guy, and he turned out to be a dragon. Every time I would close my eyes and go to sleep I would be riding a dragon and I'd wake up and remember all these visions. I don’t know if they were real or not or if I'm traveling to different dimensions at night, whatever it was, it inspired me to write the song. I tied in the element of fire with divine love.”

Polaris says “Elemental Codes” was a labor of love and hopes it helps people in some way.

“I felt such a push to do this,” she said. “I feel like I'm very tapped into my intuition and I’m following my true path. If you get a nudge from the universe follow it, I believe the universe will conspire and help you. Just follow your joy and shine your light. I am so grateful for these songs and feel like they will lift people up.”

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Dead Kennedys Guitarist Claims Jello Biafra Is Holding Back Potential Reunion

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Fans wishing for a reunion from the Dead Kennedys and Jello Biafra will have to petition the former singer, founding guitarist East Bay Ray has claimed.

Ray (whose real name is Raymond Pepperell) has served as the guitarist for the San Francisco punk icons since their formation in 1978, stepping away from his role only during the band’s inactive period between 1986 and 2001. 

Though the Dead Kennedys reformed in the 21st century, they’ve not once been fronted by Biafra, whose relationship with Ray and drummer Klaus Flouride (aka Geoffrey Lyall) remains fraught to this day. As Ray explained in a recent interview with Guitar World, he’s open to the concept of a reunion with the classic lineup, though Biafra remains the sticking point in any potential plans.

“It’s not an issue for me or Klaus,” Ray explains. “It’s Biafra that turns down any offers for us to do something; we don’t have any problem. He got caught with his hands in the till and wants to blame us for getting caught, but he should never have put his hands in there in the first place.

Ray’s claims relate to a 1998 lawsuit in which Ray, Flouride and drummer D.H. Peligro (aka Darren Henley, who would pass away in 2022) accused Biafra and his Alternative Tentacles label of withholding royalties. In 2003, Biafra was ordered by California’s Court of Appeal to replay the outstanding royalties with additional punitive damages.

Ray, Flouride and Peligro reunited the Dead Kennedys in 2001, with various singers fronting the band until the appointment of Ron “Skip” Greer in 2008. Attempts to reunite the classic members of the Dead Kennedys have taken place over the years, including by Chicago’s Riot Fest in 2017.

“Dead Kennedys had a sincere invitation to play a reunion show at Riot Fest in Chicago this fall,” Ray wrote on social media at the time. “Jello Biafra turned it down. Klaus Flouride, DH Peligro and I were looking forward to doing it.”

The Dead Kennedys’ original eight-year run resulted in a string of singles and four studio albums, including their 1980 debut Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. The conclusion of the band’s lawsuit in 2003 gave members the right to reissue past Dead Kennedys albums, including a 2022 release of their debut which left Biafra displeased.

“We actually wrote as a band, where in effect, due to the chemistry between us, it was a case of two and two equaling five, you know?” Ray rold Guitar World. “None of us has had a solo career that was bigger than Dead Kennedys, which, to me, shows the power of a bunch of talented people getting together and creating something that was far greater than the sum of its parts.

“Jello didn’t bring in the songs. I know he’s created the myth that he wrote them all, but the question here is that if he did, why didn’t he ever do anything significant after leaving the band?” he added. “Iggy left the Stooges and had a career; ditto Lou Reed with the Velvet Underground or Morrissey with the Smiths. Where’s Biafra’s solo career with a bunch of great songs?”

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