Stream: Deradoorian, ‘A Beautiful Woman’

Kevin Bronson on July 10th, 2015

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Singer-songwriter-psychic explorer Angel Deradoorian has alighted in Los Angeles, bringing with her a resumé that includes stints in Dirty Projectors and Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, as well as collaborations with the likes of Flying Lotus, Björk and Vampire Weekend. In seemingly ancient times (2009), Deradoorian released a solo EP, but it’s nothing like her forthcoming tour de force “The Expanding Flower Plant” (due Aug. 21 on Anticon). She described the full-length as “an album, a song, a cosmic ideal, a form of psychic expansion and expanded capability,” which is a erudite way of inviting listeners down a rabbit hole of swirling harmonies, interwoven electronic instrumentation, opaque imagery and dreamy textures. As anybody who witnessed her performance in L.A. last summer would testify, she shares much in spirit with artists such as Tune-Yards, whose conceptual experimentation transports listeners to some parallel universe unbound by musical genres. That said, Deradoorian’s new single “A Beautiful Woman” does have an enticing groove, and probably some world music influences too. There’s more where this came from.

||| Stream: “A Beautiful Woman”