Angel Deradoorian’s bass, keys and vocals have notably lifted the Brooklyn-based experimental outfit Dirty Projectors and Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, not to mention the songs she’s collab’d with Vampire Weekend, Flying Lotus, Matmos, and on. She’s oft seen live performing the duties of two or more musicians, a real testament to her skill as musician.
Her new project, christened Deradoorian, is a several-year long craft first received in 2009’s Mind Raft EP. It was lauded by tastemakers for its sensuality and adept layering. Almost six years later, the fruits of her labor are ripe for the picking. Listen to Deradoorian’s newest track "Komodo", off her debut album The Expanding Flower Planet. Organs, clavichords, brass patches and vocal overdubs join, depart, and reconcile in this cautionary song about the komodo dragon fusing worldly styles with harmonic artifice.
The Expanding Flower Planet is set to release August 21 via Anticon Records. Get a live taste on September 22nd when she performs at the Echo with Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier. – Ryan Mo, photo credit: Bennet Perez