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Bassist, singer, and sometime keyboarder, Angel Deradoorian, simply known as Deradoorian, from the New York-based band, Dirty Projectors, released her debut EP Mind Raft yesterday.
This eccentric mix of harmonies and melodies is interesting, but it seems to me that she's experimenting and trying to find her own direction. I mean, it's probably hard to break out from the shadow of heady ex-Yale student Dave Longstreth, but I think Deradoorian is doing a good job on her solo debut EP.
"High Road" is the most interesting and dense song, with ton of layers and odd sound effects from deep pounding percussions to quick/half-played violin bursts, but it follows one of the more simple "Weed Jam", a song with a very harmonic vocals and drums song.
You can see her R&B influences as you listen to "You Carry the Deed", however the appearance of the horns towards the end shifts it into a strange song.
My favorite song on the EP is "Moon". This song is just great. It's simple acoustic-playing with Deradoorian's descriptive lyrics and celtic-ish singing makes the song sounds like it's from middle-ages.
These are serious songs - despite the fact that based on her 'space pictures, Deradoorian looks like quite a lot of fun. I mean, what do you expect from someone who wants to be the next John Oates?
Mind Raft EP is out now on Lovepump United Records, I have listed Dirty Projectors' tour dates, as I am assuming she's going to be playing bass live with them. It's interesting to note that they are going to be playing with Bjork, on the 8th, because they have long admired her (they covered her song "Hyperballad" last year).
This eccentric mix of harmonies and melodies is interesting, but it seems to me that she's experimenting and trying to find her own direction. I mean, it's probably hard to break out from the shadow of heady ex-Yale student Dave Longstreth, but I think Deradoorian is doing a good job on her solo debut EP.
"High Road" is the most interesting and dense song, with ton of layers and odd sound effects from deep pounding percussions to quick/half-played violin bursts, but it follows one of the more simple "Weed Jam", a song with a very harmonic vocals and drums song.
You can see her R&B influences as you listen to "You Carry the Deed", however the appearance of the horns towards the end shifts it into a strange song.
My favorite song on the EP is "Moon". This song is just great. It's simple acoustic-playing with Deradoorian's descriptive lyrics and celtic-ish singing makes the song sounds like it's from middle-ages.
These are serious songs - despite the fact that based on her 'space pictures, Deradoorian looks like quite a lot of fun. I mean, what do you expect from someone who wants to be the next John Oates?
Mind Raft EP is out now on Lovepump United Records, I have listed Dirty Projectors' tour dates, as I am assuming she's going to be playing bass live with them. It's interesting to note that they are going to be playing with Bjork, on the 8th, because they have long admired her (they covered her song "Hyperballad" last year).
05/06/2009 01:24:38 ♥ vu (
) ♥ myspace.com/angelderadoorian ♥ myspace.com/dirtyprojectors
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