{"title":"Lafawndah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLafawndah is a French recording artist based in London, UK. With her unique blend of electronic and experimental pop music, she has captivated audiences around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by artists such as Kelsey Lu, Holly Herndon, serpentwithfeet, and Aïsha Devi, Lafawndah's music pushes boundaries and challenges traditional genre conventions. Her mesmerizing vocals combined with innovative production create an immersive sonic experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for collaborating with talented musicians like Klein, Lotic, Amnesia Scanner, and Fatima Al Qadiri, Lafawndah constantly seeks to push the boundaries of her artistry. She has also gained recognition for her powerful live performances that showcase her dynamic stage presence.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-fifth-season","title":"The Fifth Season","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter a banner year that witnessed Lafawndah release her first album Ancestor Boy, the debut of her soundsystem Fara Fara, and further incursions into film, contemporary art and fashion, the ceaseless artist returns with another plot twist: The Fifth Season.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by her encounter with author NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy, Lafawndah both pays homage to and extends further the elemental, emotionally charged myths of Jemisin’s books. These are stories where a broken heart can tear apart a continent. In contrast to the precision- tuned industrial productions of Ancestor Boy, The Fifth Season breathes a different kind of volatility. Inviting a new degree of spontaneity and freedom into her process, Lafawndah’s collaborators - Theon Cross (tuba), Nathaniel Cross (trombone), Valentina Magaletti (percussions), and Nick Weiss (keyboards) - encircle her confrontational character studies with iridescent, cinematic chamber-bass moves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese are torch songs for when it rains ash, creation ballads for when the earth turns inside out. Ghosts of Art Ensemble of Chicago and Rahsaan Roland Kirk color the air, yet Lafawndah’s mastery of pop songcraft, vocal production and razor-honed clarity of purpose cut through. In addition to the Lafawndah originals, The Fifth Season features interpretations of hybrid-folk godfather Beverly Glenn Copeland’s \u003ci\u003eDon’t Despair\u003c\/i\u003e and acid-impressionist prodigy Lili Boulanger’s \u003ci\u003eOld Buddhist Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e. Album highlight \u003ci\u003eYou, at the End\u003c\/i\u003e deploys a poem by poet-performer Kae Tempest to aching, rift-tearing ends, and french dream-trap wraith Lala \u0026amp;ce features on \u003ci\u003eLe Malentendu\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Fifth Season anchors Lafawndah as a descendent of forebearers Brigitte Fontaine and Scott Walker - a born theatric whose acid humor warps the sub-continental undertow of her emotive storytelling. 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The album’s physicality is elemental; its memory, mineral. It is a becoming- of- age story for a people yet to come, created out of a need to find the others. In the middle of the album’s sonic and lyrical onslaught is the desire to share the uncertainties of growing up when you don’t belong anywhere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCrafted with the aid of fellow travelers Nick Weiss, ADR, and L-Vis 1990, \u003ci\u003eAncestor Boy’s\u003c\/i\u003e maximalism- it’s overflow of detail, of feeling, of ideas- serves to amplify a frequent lyrical motif: the sensation that one body, one lifetime, isn’t big enough for what you’re feeling. The record is pregnant with memories shared across more than one mind, recalling the storytelling antagonisms of Nina Simone at her most strident and unpredictable. In response, the rhythmic aggressions of her music have grown even more determined and psychedelic, drawing a line in fire between Jimmy Jam’s turnt industrialism on \u003ci\u003eControl \u003c\/i\u003eand the furious unease of\u003ci\u003e Red Mecca\u003c\/i\u003e-era Cabaret Voltaire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a palate equal parts chrome and dirt, ice and depth, Lafawndah’s finesse with song architecture imbues the LP with an uncanny addictiveness: anthems loaded with trap doors. \u003ci\u003eAncestor Boy\u003c\/i\u003e imagines a pop music that is neither imperial nor local, but a freedom of movement; a residue, perhaps, from the album’s nomadic creation between Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, London, and Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Concordia","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50486594830667,"sku":"1054724","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d9f01c9b-2c19-428d-8ca1-d4c82288d498_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727612052"},{"product_id":"tan","title":"Tan","description":"\u003cp\u003eLafawndah's first release on Warp takes influences from wide-ranging genres such as zouk, kizoma, salsa, cumbia, dubstep and grime, creating an exciting sampler of what's to come next from this defiant and inspired artist. Lafawndah is somewhat of a global citizen, having lived in Paris, Tehran, New York and Mexico City and coming from an Egyptian \/ Iranian \/ English heritage. Listening to her music, a fusion of regional subgenres from different corners of the world, she has evidently a certain porosity when it comes to digesting sound, taking snippets of different influences as souvenirs to use in her own work. The songs on 'Tan' are at the same time relaxed and playful, bold and confrontational. The combination between strong narrative, clarity of expression and seamless transmutation is reminiscent of early Bjork, Missy Elliott and Grace Jones. Co-produced by L-Vis 1990 and ADR. Executively produced by Lafawndah. 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