![]() ![]() The first single, "Fables," is a blissful and kaleidoscopic pop song produced and featuring none other than art-pop icon, Beck.Īlso performed: DJ set by Nassir Nassirzadeh (KCRW)Įtran de L'Aïr (or "stars of the Aïr region") welcomes you to Agadez, Niger-capital city of Saharan rock. This new album documents her efflorescence as a singer/songwriter with waves of maturity, humility, and intimacy in a succession of deeply personal, contemplative, and radiant songs. Maps of her familial cities, Shiraz and Isfahan, grace the insert of her debut LP, Flowers at Your Feet. As a founding member of Brooklyn's garage-rock mainstay, Habibi, Rahill garnered a reputation for alchemizing an eclectic range of influences, distilling them into captivating and heavy pop songs that gestured towards the modes and melodies of the Iranian American household in which she was raised-a heritage she nurtured during several trips to Iran.This affinity for Iranian culture and music is increasingly present in her emergent solo output. Rahill is a multidisciplinary artist and musician hailing from Michigan and now based in New York's Hudson Valley. Music Video: "I Feel Good," by by Alabaster DePlume. ".Warm and wise," the album is "a balm of spoken word and spiritual jazz, both strangely uncomfortable and strangely comforting."– Pitchfork, which named DePlumes' latest release, Gold, as Best New Music ".A reminder of how vital and adventurous music can be"–Laura Barton, The Guardian. "The guy absolutely blew my mind." –Gilles Peterson, BBC ![]() His process is people-first, not product-first, creating unique, often gem-like music. "I want to talk about why I'm doing this, and how I'm doing this," he's said. Each concert experience is unique, shaped by his candid, vulnerable interactions with collaborating musicians and the audience. Most importantly, DePlume brings a valuable transparency to his work. His songs are built on sonorous circular melodies and luminous tones that transmit calmness and generosity in warm waves-unless they're raging against complacency and the everyday inhumanity of end-times capitalism. We heard about different experiences from Cindy Lee, the drag-chanson project of Patrick Flegel a series of music/performance art hybrids from Natalie Sharp aka Lone Taxidermist anonymous Swedish collective Goat and Jerusalem In My Heart, a film and music happening by Radwan Gazi Moumneh and Erin Weisgerber, which attempts to project Arabic musical references for reception into a western context.British poet and saxophonist Alabaster DePlume uses his performances to encourage his audiences, and to recognize and appreciate them for the simple, yet laudable, act of living. ![]() In the first part of episode 2, called 'What's Behind The Mask?', we spoke to four musicians about how identity and persona play a role in their work, whether through legit alter-ego’s or just digging into the self as a raw material. In the second episode of ‘The Big Playback’, host Margaret Munchheimer talks to four different musicians about the shifting relationship between Art and Identity and who in some way explore the self as a medium, through persona and performance. Le Guess Who? presents ‘The Big Playback’, a conversational, in-depth podcast about all things music. Podcast: listen to Part 2 of the episode 'What's Behind The Mask?' ![]()
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