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It's interlocking parts tell an epic story about the quest for artistic expression, with Dawn describing her project as \"a movement to bring pioneering Black women in electronic music to the forefront.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat \/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased \/ \u003cb\u003e04\/30\/2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue \/ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMRG-756\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode \/ \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e673855075617\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtist \/ \u003cb\u003eDawn Richard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLabel \/ \u003cb\u003eMerge Records\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre \/ \u003cstrong\u003eElectronic\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Secretly Canadian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39300010115133,"sku":"ELE-R-673855075617","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1487\/4550\/products\/673855075617.jpg?v=1619638686"},{"product_id":"dawn-richard-and-spencer-zah-pigments-colored-vinyl","title":"Dawn Richard \u0026 Spencer Zah - Pigments [Colored Vinyl]","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-main\" class=\"col-md-10\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-product-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-product-description\" class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePigments is a project about the power of self-expression through living art, through motion. 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That shared vision first brought them together on 2022's Pigments-icy and warm, stripped-down and grand, familiar and otherworldly-and now it has reunited them for Quiet in a World Full of Noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\nBy turns intimate, soul-baring, spectral, and startling, Quiet in a World Full of Noise blends atmospheric and orchestral soundscapes with mellifluous soul, jazz, and journalistic vocalizing-driving it all home with stark, confessional lyricism. The new album finds Richard at her most raw and exposed. This year, Richard's musician father experienced mini strokes while being diagnosed with cancer; last year, her cousin Cisco was fatally shot seven times in New Orleans. Richard channels the emotional impact of these traumatic experiences of loss into her lyrics and vocal performances, which are left bare and human here, raw and unprocessed across the album. Quiet expands the definitions of what constitutes progressive, avant-garde R\u0026amp;B by rewriting them altogether.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOn paper, Richard and Zahn's audacious, impressionistic musical collaborations feel like a surprising match. Richard, a New Orleans-reared visionary, has had an improbable journey from late 2000s reality television and mainstream pop with girl group Danity Kane to become one of the most prolific, experimental, and visible indie R\u0026amp;B singer-songwriters of the last decade and a half, with seven solo albums under her belt. Zahn is an East Coast-raised multi-instrumentalist and composer working at the intersections of jazz, Americana, classical, and ambient pop. His growing solo discography includes People of the Dawn, Sunday Painter, Pale Horizon, and Statues I \u0026amp; II, as well as the duo's first release, Pigments. \"Pigments was one of the best projects I've ever made,\" Richard says, \"and the furthest I've ever been pushed as an artist.\" The album was a critical hit, hailed as Best New Music by Pitchfork and receiving praise from Stereogum as Album of the Week, NPR Music, Bandcamp Daily, The Fader, Bitter Southerner, and Edition, among many other publications.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe making of it's follow-up, Quiet in a World Full of Noise, began in 2023 in upstate New York. Fresh from a break-up, Zahn sat at his piano and poured himself into writing and recording instrumental compositions. \"I wrote all these stream-of-consciousness pieces on piano, and they were eerie, spacious piano tracks,\" he says. He used a piano that had been unconventionally tuned to the room rather than to standard pitch. These oddly tuned, eerie instrumental recordings were never intended to be an album. Six months later, he listened to the recordings again and sent them to Richard who immediately recognized their potential and said, \"Oh, this is the next album.\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eRichard went into the studio the next day and wrote and recorded melodies and lyrics to Zahn's piano recordings. Zahn brought in gifted musicians like Bryan Senti on strings (violin, viola, and violoncello da spalla) and CJ Camerieri on brass (French horn, flugelhorn, and trumpet). In some cases, like on the track \"Life in Numbers,\" Zahn used only the original first-take piano recording and scratch vocal, resulting in an intimate close-up of both Richard and Zahn.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eWith Quiet, Zahn and Richard have made an album that serves as a blueprint for stillness, simplicity, and the art of working across differences in the midst of a polarizing cultural climate. Richard describes Quiet in a World Full of Noise as grounding: \"Right now, everyone's a little bit overwhelmed. 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Steeped in history but with it's flag planted firmly in the future, Creole Culture pulls elements from Richard's heritage as a Black and Native American woman who has spent a lifetime making and engaging with music. Following New Breed (2019) and Second Line (2021), Creole Culture is akin to a panel of a triptych: a fully-realized sonic and narrative universe in which Richard, as King Creole, rebuilds her hometown of New Orleans in her image. She not only honors her city for what it was or what it gave her, but stakes a claim for it as a cradle of global culture now and for all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eCreole Culture follows two acclaimed avant-garde R\u0026amp;B albums with composer Spencer Zahn - the later of which, 2024's Quiet in a World Full of Noise, found Richard exorcising the specters of grief and trauma in the wake of her father Frank Richard's health struggles and the killing of her cousin Cisco. It is a softer take on the brass-soaked swagger of Richard's previous King Creole efforts, an evolution brought about when she realized she had left a crucial viewpoint out of her exploration of New Orleans: her own. \"New Breed was the story of New Orleans through my father's eyes, \" Richard explains. \"I used his samples, his music, his cultures, his work with Chocolate Milk, his side of the family. Second Line was my mom - her interludes riddled the album with her depiction of what is meant to be a Creole woman in New Orleans. The masculine and feminine sides of King Creole had expressed themselves through them, but the story felt unfinished, like my version of the story was untold.\" That story is, for lack of a better word, complex: at turns triumphant and tragic, sexy and mournful, braggadocious and contemplative. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreole Culture presents Richard's New Orleans as a utopian soundscape - an intoxicating blend of R\u0026amp;B, soul, hip-hop, pop, and jazz - that's survived and thrived despite the dystopian circumstances visited upon it. Richard presents the melange of influence and artifact on Creole Culture with the care of a botanist nurturing new hybrids in a rose garden. What emerges from that care is at once delightful - like her reinterpretation of Frank Richard and Chocolate Milk's city-defining soul-funk anthem \"groove city\" as a breakbeat-laden slice of cosmic R\u0026amp;B on the occasion of the original's 50th anniversary - and unexpected, enlisting a crew of guest stars including Big Freedia, Ajelieka \"Jelly\" Joseph, Tarriona \"Tank\" Ball, and Durand Bernarr for features that play against type. Tank's turn at spoken word verse on \"l v r\" serves to add dimension to King Creole's New Orleans, as does Joseph's undeniable voice on \"chuuuurch.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm not normally a features girl, \" says Richard, \"but King Creole can't build a world from scratch without help. What's beautiful about the features here - which is also true of my band and producers - is they come from people who understand the materials of the world they're from, they're people I love, and they're people who are just extraordinary at what they do. They're part of the atmosphere of this place. You need them for the record to breathe.\" In the end, that's what King Creole creates: a space where Dawn Richard can breathe, can be at peace with herself, and let loose with others. From finding love in opening single \"enough\" to relishing in the Afrocaribbean futurism of \"fiesta, \" Creole Culture is a tremendous, freeing breath of fresh air. It captures the resolve of a woman and a place who've survived the unimaginable and sees the future not as something to be endured, but as something to be created. Dawn Richard has been making that future one album at a time over the course of her career. 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Steeped in history but with it's flag planted firmly in the future, Creole Culture pulls elements from Richard's heritage as a Black and Native American woman who has spent a lifetime making and engaging with music. Following New Breed (2019) and Second Line (2021), Creole Culture is akin to a panel of a triptych: a fully-realized sonic and narrative universe in which Richard, as King Creole, rebuilds her hometown of New Orleans in her image. She not only honors her city for what it was or what it gave her, but stakes a claim for it as a cradle of global culture now and for all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eCreole Culture follows two acclaimed avant-garde R\u0026amp;B albums with composer Spencer Zahn - the later of which, 2024's Quiet in a World Full of Noise, found Richard exorcising the specters of grief and trauma in the wake of her father Frank Richard's health struggles and the killing of her cousin Cisco. It is a softer take on the brass-soaked swagger of Richard's previous King Creole efforts, an evolution brought about when she realized she had left a crucial viewpoint out of her exploration of New Orleans: her own. \"New Breed was the story of New Orleans through my father's eyes, \" Richard explains. \"I used his samples, his music, his cultures, his work with Chocolate Milk, his side of the family. Second Line was my mom - her interludes riddled the album with her depiction of what is meant to be a Creole woman in New Orleans. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe masculine and feminine sides of King Creole had expressed themselves through them, but the story felt unfinished, like my version of the story was untold.\" That story is, for lack of a better word, complex: at turns triumphant and tragic, sexy and mournful, braggadocious and contemplative. Creole Culture presents Richard's New Orleans as a utopian soundscape - an intoxicating blend of R\u0026amp;B, soul, hip-hop, pop, and jazz - that's survived and thrived despite the dystopian circumstances visited upon it. Richard presents the melange of influence and artifact on Creole Culture with the care of a botanist nurturing new hybrids in a rose garden. What emerges from that care is at once delightful - like her reinterpretation of Frank Richard and Chocolate Milk's city-defining soul-funk anthem \"groove city\" as a breakbeat-laden slice of cosmic R\u0026amp;B on the occasion of the original's 50th anniversary - and unexpected, enlisting a crew of guest stars including Big Freedia, Ajelieka \"Jelly\" Joseph, Tarriona \"Tank\" Ball, and Durand Bernarr for features that play against type. 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