New Orleans based artist Hirakish is a vanguard visionary and a show-stealing HBA catwalk star. His evolving practice spans music, acting, and performance. "Black Velvet" is a look inwards, at one's own struggle with paradoxes of love, sorrow, and desire. The four tracks move effortlessly through romanticism, suffering, and ecstasy. Awash with blistering guitars, synths, and hard-hitting vocals laced with fragile and reckless lyrics, together yield a spiritual and subtle hallucinogenic air.