Something in the Room She Moves is out now Thank you brilliant Kenny Gilmore for many hrs building these sounds w me. Dev Hoff’s bass writing is mesmerizing, the foundation. Beth Goodfellow’s heartbeat drums are rooted yet searching. Maia’s flute w fluttering vibratos, dancing tones, moves me beyond. Chris Speed’s reeds w delicate attention to intonation harmony. Sarah Belle Reid’s trumpet balances rich tone w noise breath Thank you soulmate Tashi Wada, whose bagpipe sublime synth underline the emotion, and for support love thru this crazy time Grateful, cathartic hours singing “Meyou” w heroes Ramona Gonzalez, Jessika Kenney, Maia, Mia Doi Todd Thank you Heba Kadry for illuminating balancing the elements Deeply appreciative Christina Quarles was happy to share her beautiful painting “Wrestlin’”. Her sketches when we were kids drawing together were already visionary. I feel her work here explores the multiplicity in the intimate that I was expressing. I have a deep sensory experience following the lines, colors and textures of her art Thank you kindred spirit Dicky Bahto for beautiful photos the enchanting “Evening Mood” video Thank you @tnpain for the stunning animation for “Sun Girl”, and @giraffestudios for the dreamy epic “Spinning” video Thank you @dominorecordco for continued support coordinating this effort w such care, I am deeply grateful @beth_goodfellow : drums, percussion @thee_bass_witch : fretless double bass Julia: voice, kbd, synth @suitesweetz : flute, piccolo @chrisspeed11 : sax, clarinet @tashiwada : synths, bagpipes @sarahbellereid – trumpet, electronics on “These Morning” @nitejewel @jessikakenney @suitesweetz @miadoitodd – additional voices on “Meyou” Produced arranged: Julia Co-produced, engineered: @kennethjohngilmore Mixed by @kennethjohngilmore at 101 Recording, LA Assistant engineers: Tyler Karmen @gemmacastro__ Recorded at 64 Sound 101 Recording, LA Mastered by @heba_kadry NYC Album art: @cequarles Insert photo: @dicky_bahto Design: @mistermrbcooper Atmos mix: @tedwhitemixandwrite Dedicated to the memory of my nephew Calder Powell, whose beauty, creativity inquisitiveness are always with us
musicians can sign the letter at https://musiciansforpalestine.net ❤️ @musicians4palestine
musicians can sign the letter at https://musiciansforpalestine.net ❤️ @musicians4palestine
musicians can sign the letter at https://musiciansforpalestine.net ❤️ @musicians4palestine
musicians can sign the letter at https://musiciansforpalestine.net ❤️ @musicians4palestine
North America tour starts tonight in LA @elreytheatre with @discoveryz0ne magical band @thee_bass_witch @beth_goodfellow @tashiwada @kennethjohngilmore video by @benhanratty
full “Sun Girl” and “Evening Mood” videos of the band live in London at EartH🔥 up now. links in bio with @thee_bass_witch —fretless bass @beth_goodfellow —percussion vocals @tashiwada —synth bagpipe @kennethjohngilmore —sound shot and edited by @benhanratty upcoming dates with @nkariuki_ below! 15 BOSTON Brighton Music Hall 17 NEW YORK Webster Hall 18 PHILADELPHIA First Unitarian Church 19 WASHINGTON DC The Atlantis 21 DURHAM Motorco Music Hall 22 ATLANTA Masquerade
inspired by the students. a student at the Occidental College Gaza Solidarity Encampment asked me about political actions i knew of in my time in college. i remember watching with horror the start of Bush’s “shock and awe” that was catastrophic for the people of Iraq and we marched against the US bombardment there but no the student mobilizing wasn’t something big like this. the organization and thoughtfulness of these students is inspiring and desperately needed. as yet another genocide unfolds, brought on in large part by my own country, and as all our reps ignore our calls for ceasefire month after month, the students are speaking out in a big way that is actually resonating. and yet at UCLA and USC here in LA so many peaceful student voices are being suppressed by some at the schools themselves and police, and many violently so. what are we doing? free Palestine, ceasefire now thank you @oxyjvp @oxysjp and @maeve.richards for the thoughtful discussion, art, and photos bc my phone camera is broken. Maeve drew the eye
inspired by the students. a student at the Occidental College Gaza Solidarity Encampment asked me about political actions i knew of in my time in college. i remember watching with horror the start of Bush’s “shock and awe” that was catastrophic for the people of Iraq and we marched against the US bombardment there but no the student mobilizing wasn’t something big like this. the organization and thoughtfulness of these students is inspiring and desperately needed. as yet another genocide unfolds, brought on in large part by my own country, and as all our reps ignore our calls for ceasefire month after month, the students are speaking out in a big way that is actually resonating. and yet at UCLA and USC here in LA so many peaceful student voices are being suppressed by some at the schools themselves and police, and many violently so. what are we doing? free Palestine, ceasefire now thank you @oxyjvp @oxysjp and @maeve.richards for the thoughtful discussion, art, and photos bc my phone camera is broken. Maeve drew the eye
inspired by the students. a student at the Occidental College Gaza Solidarity Encampment asked me about political actions i knew of in my time in college. i remember watching with horror the start of Bush’s “shock and awe” that was catastrophic for the people of Iraq and we marched against the US bombardment there but no the student mobilizing wasn’t something big like this. the organization and thoughtfulness of these students is inspiring and desperately needed. as yet another genocide unfolds, brought on in large part by my own country, and as all our reps ignore our calls for ceasefire month after month, the students are speaking out in a big way that is actually resonating. and yet at UCLA and USC here in LA so many peaceful student voices are being suppressed by some at the schools themselves and police, and many violently so. what are we doing? free Palestine, ceasefire now thank you @oxyjvp @oxysjp and @maeve.richards for the thoughtful discussion, art, and photos bc my phone camera is broken. Maeve drew the eye
🌜 Excited for this upcoming May tour of North America, featuring @thee_bass_witch (fretless bass) @beth_goodfellow (percussion) @tashiwada (synth, bagpipe) and @kennethjohngilmore on sound 🌛 I’m so happy to be sharing the stages with luminaries @discoveryz0ne (LA to Chicago) @thanyaiyer (Toronto and Montreal) and @nkariuki_ (Boston to Atlanta). Feeling very fortunate to be absorbing the musical energies of all these lovely people and can’t wait to see you there 🙏🏼 Thanks again to the incredible @radha.v for the SUN MAZE poster 🌞
so happy to play @websterhall tonight in NY with @nkariuki_ celestial band @thee_bass_witch @beth_goodfellow @tashiwada @kennethjohngilmore and very special guests @xasopheno on sax and vocalists @gemmacastro__ @nkariuki_ and @frincess 🌺🌺🌺 projected video by @dicky_bahto thank you to amazing tour manager @danni_lanni see you soon 🌈
most nights of this May tour, our performance will be accompanied by this mesmerizing new film by the @dicky_bahto happy to debut it tonight at our show in SF! here are some stills. See you soon 🪼🪼🪼 03 LOS ANGELES El Rey Theatre 04 SAN FRANCISCO Great American Music Hall 06 SEATTLE Crocodile 07 PORTLAND Aladdin Theater 10 MINNEAPOLIS Fine Line 11 CHICAGO Cermak Hall 13 TORONTO The Great Hall 14 MONTREAL Le Belmont 15 BOSTON Brighton Music Hall 17 NEW YORK Webster Hall 18 PHILADELPHIA First Unitarian Church 19 WASHINGTON DC The Atlantis 21 DURHAM Motorco Music Hall 22 ATLANTA Masquerade
most nights of this May tour, our performance will be accompanied by this mesmerizing new film by the @dicky_bahto happy to debut it tonight at our show in SF! here are some stills. See you soon 🪼🪼🪼 03 LOS ANGELES El Rey Theatre 04 SAN FRANCISCO Great American Music Hall 06 SEATTLE Crocodile 07 PORTLAND Aladdin Theater 10 MINNEAPOLIS Fine Line 11 CHICAGO Cermak Hall 13 TORONTO The Great Hall 14 MONTREAL Le Belmont 15 BOSTON Brighton Music Hall 17 NEW YORK Webster Hall 18 PHILADELPHIA First Unitarian Church 19 WASHINGTON DC The Atlantis 21 DURHAM Motorco Music Hall 22 ATLANTA Masquerade
most nights of this May tour, our performance will be accompanied by this mesmerizing new film by the @dicky_bahto happy to debut it tonight at our show in SF! here are some stills. See you soon 🪼🪼🪼 03 LOS ANGELES El Rey Theatre 04 SAN FRANCISCO Great American Music Hall 06 SEATTLE Crocodile 07 PORTLAND Aladdin Theater 10 MINNEAPOLIS Fine Line 11 CHICAGO Cermak Hall 13 TORONTO The Great Hall 14 MONTREAL Le Belmont 15 BOSTON Brighton Music Hall 17 NEW YORK Webster Hall 18 PHILADELPHIA First Unitarian Church 19 WASHINGTON DC The Atlantis 21 DURHAM Motorco Music Hall 22 ATLANTA Masquerade
most nights of this May tour, our performance will be accompanied by this mesmerizing new film by the @dicky_bahto happy to debut it tonight at our show in SF! here are some stills. See you soon 🪼🪼🪼 03 LOS ANGELES El Rey Theatre 04 SAN FRANCISCO Great American Music Hall 06 SEATTLE Crocodile 07 PORTLAND Aladdin Theater 10 MINNEAPOLIS Fine Line 11 CHICAGO Cermak Hall 13 TORONTO The Great Hall 14 MONTREAL Le Belmont 15 BOSTON Brighton Music Hall 17 NEW YORK Webster Hall 18 PHILADELPHIA First Unitarian Church 19 WASHINGTON DC The Atlantis 21 DURHAM Motorco Music Hall 22 ATLANTA Masquerade
new @tashiwada song “Subaru”! feat @catfact @tashiwada and me beautiful video by @dicky_bahto from upcoming @tashiwada album What Is Not Strange? @rvngintl Repost: @tashiwada: Today we let fly “Subaru” from my forthcoming album What Is Not Strange? out one month from now on June 7 @rvngintl. “Subaru” was a fun one to make with the joyful interplay of Julia Holter’s soaring vocals, Ezra Buchla’s earthy viola, and my dance-like synths. Artist and filmmaker Dicky Bahto made a gorgeous, richly textured video that accompanies the music in parallel motion, sliding in and out of time In the words of friend Matt McDermott (who also wrote the wonderful press release for the album): “Subaru, the second single from Tashi Wada’s What Is Not Strange?, looks back to the avant-garde pop that scored Japan’s 1980s economic miracle, when famed composers like Yasuaki Shimizu and Haruomi Hosono were writing commercial music for digital watches and probiotic milk beverages. On this playful piece, which evokes a peaceful glide through the star cluster that slyly gives the song (and the auto company) its name, Wada signals a transformation from transcendent minimalism to a synth-driven sound folding in folk and pop songcraft, like some imaginary jam session between Harmonia and Discover America-era Van Dyke Parks.
new @tashiwada song “Subaru”! feat @catfact @tashiwada and me beautiful video by @dicky_bahto from upcoming @tashiwada album What Is Not Strange? @rvngintl Repost: @tashiwada: Today we let fly “Subaru” from my forthcoming album What Is Not Strange? out one month from now on June 7 @rvngintl. “Subaru” was a fun one to make with the joyful interplay of Julia Holter’s soaring vocals, Ezra Buchla’s earthy viola, and my dance-like synths. Artist and filmmaker Dicky Bahto made a gorgeous, richly textured video that accompanies the music in parallel motion, sliding in and out of time In the words of friend Matt McDermott (who also wrote the wonderful press release for the album): “Subaru, the second single from Tashi Wada’s What Is Not Strange?, looks back to the avant-garde pop that scored Japan’s 1980s economic miracle, when famed composers like Yasuaki Shimizu and Haruomi Hosono were writing commercial music for digital watches and probiotic milk beverages. On this playful piece, which evokes a peaceful glide through the star cluster that slyly gives the song (and the auto company) its name, Wada signals a transformation from transcendent minimalism to a synth-driven sound folding in folk and pop songcraft, like some imaginary jam session between Harmonia and Discover America-era Van Dyke Parks.
excited for new @tashiwada record @rvngintl and Tashi show dates w @tashiwada @coreyvogeln @thee_bass_witch and @catfact check out this clip from our show in Tokyo last year 🐇🐇 Posted @withregram • @tashiwada Happy to share a string of US dates this summer and fall where we’ll be bringing the music of “What Is Not Strange?” to life for you. I’ll be joined by the full band of amazing musicians who made the album with me—Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, Dev Hoff, and Corey Fogel 06/08 Los Angeles CA – UPEND at 2220 Arts Archives – Album release show with Charles Curtis and DJ Matt McDermott 09/13 Brooklyn NY – Roulette 09/14 Philadelphia PA – Ars Nova at Solar Myth 10/05 San Francisco CA – The Lab The beautiful video clip of “Grand Trine” is from my performance with Julia at Yobodashi Church in Tokyo last December, presented by Mode with support from Regenerative Circle Photos by Dicky Bahto
excited for new @tashiwada record @rvngintl and Tashi show dates w @tashiwada @coreyvogeln @thee_bass_witch and @catfact check out this clip from our show in Tokyo last year 🐇🐇 Posted @withregram • @tashiwada Happy to share a string of US dates this summer and fall where we’ll be bringing the music of “What Is Not Strange?” to life for you. I’ll be joined by the full band of amazing musicians who made the album with me—Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, Dev Hoff, and Corey Fogel 06/08 Los Angeles CA – UPEND at 2220 Arts Archives – Album release show with Charles Curtis and DJ Matt McDermott 09/13 Brooklyn NY – Roulette 09/14 Philadelphia PA – Ars Nova at Solar Myth 10/05 San Francisco CA – The Lab The beautiful video clip of “Grand Trine” is from my performance with Julia at Yobodashi Church in Tokyo last December, presented by Mode with support from Regenerative Circle Photos by Dicky Bahto
excited for new @tashiwada record @rvngintl and Tashi show dates w @tashiwada @coreyvogeln @thee_bass_witch and @catfact check out this clip from our show in Tokyo last year 🐇🐇 Posted @withregram • @tashiwada Happy to share a string of US dates this summer and fall where we’ll be bringing the music of “What Is Not Strange?” to life for you. I’ll be joined by the full band of amazing musicians who made the album with me—Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, Dev Hoff, and Corey Fogel 06/08 Los Angeles CA – UPEND at 2220 Arts Archives – Album release show with Charles Curtis and DJ Matt McDermott 09/13 Brooklyn NY – Roulette 09/14 Philadelphia PA – Ars Nova at Solar Myth 10/05 San Francisco CA – The Lab The beautiful video clip of “Grand Trine” is from my performance with Julia at Yobodashi Church in Tokyo last December, presented by Mode with support from Regenerative Circle Photos by Dicky Bahto
🌜happy for the start of our upcoming North American tour being a hometown LA show at a venue I went to a lot growing up @elreytheatre and excited to play songs with @thee_bass_witch @tashiwada @beth_goodfellow and @kennethjohngilmore on sound and we will have very special guests @suitesweetz @miadoitodd and @jessikakenney !!! will be our first show sharing stage with wizard @discoveryz0ne 🌛 flyer by @radha.v
“‘subaru’ is the bubbliest song tashi has crafted, and it is so much fun to sing. the regular pulse of the octave switch in the synth—at once a heartbeat and a landline busy signal—feels like a constant shift between two realms, almost fast enough that they are coexisting but never quite. and above this machine-like rhythm, the breathy and airy viola and vocal fly and glide around in tashi’s transcendent melody—spirited birds” @juliaholter on accompanying @tashiwada and ezra buchla (@catfact) on “subaru,” the latest offering from tashi’s forthcoming album what is not strange? @dicky_bahto’s video for “subaru” glows eloquently above, and the song can be heard alongside the first single, “grand trine,” at any number of links [in bio]
