Maggie Tra Releases Self-Evolving Debut EP ‘U.L.A’

Lost within the realms of Asia and it’s surroundings emerging producer Maggie Tra releases her empowering debut EP ‘U.L.A’ (U Look Asian). 

Leaning on the connotations of the title, the tongue-in-cheek EP ‘U.L.A’ acts as homage to Maggie’s upbringing. The 4-track EP is a composition of sounds from Khmer and Vietnamese samples that digs into her heritage and seeps through her inner identities on being an Asian brought up in the western world. 

Now based in Hanoi, Vietnam, the Australian born Khmer/Vietnamese artist has channeled her inner thoughts and feelings from her upbringing into the EP showcasing a side of Asia that sometimes gets left out. 

“‘U.L.A’ is a playful way of me describing what my life is like. Whether a Westerner or an Asian person asks me where I am from after I respond with Australia, they usually say, “But you look Asian”. To be honest it always makes me laugh, because they're not wrong”

“I often find in modern music that Cambodian and Vietnamese artists’ and music aren’t so integrated. That really what was my main drive to be a producer, I want more people to see my culture for what it is, and embrace the beauty of it for those who have been to these places as well as introducing people who haven’t. And whilst they see my world, I want them to dance,”

The ethereal/electronic EP has a vast variety of sounds compiled into it, alongside Khmer and Vietnamese language entangled between.