Los Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada has announced his first full-length solo album, What Is Not Strange?, on RVNG Intl. (June 7th). The album, written and recorded between his father’s death (Fluxus artist Yoshi Wada) and his daughter’s birth, explores the themes of being alive, mortality, and finding one’s place in the world.
The first single’s title, Grand Trine, comes from an astrological term, which occurs when three or more planets make a complete equilateral triangle on the zodiac wheel, as they did on his daughter’s birth chart. The six-minute composition features Wada’s glistening, retuned harpsichord, Julia Holter’s soaring vocals, Ezra Buchla’s viola and Devin Hoff‘s double bass, and Corey Fogel’s intuitive percussion. The accompanying impressionistic video by Dicky Bahto, a longstanding Wada and Holter collaborator, is so in-tune with Wada’s ‘ambitious paean to the cycles of life’ that the music could have been made for the film, emphasising what Wada calls dream music, inhabiting “emotional states that are difficult to pinpoint” and “shapeshifting from moment to moment.”
Tashi Wada’s What Is Not Strange? will be released on double-LP, Japanese import CD, and digital editions on June 7, 2024. Wada, alongside Holter, Buchla, Hoff, and Fogel, will play an inaugural show in Los Angeles on June 8, with additional shows in New York City and Philadelphia this fall and more to be confirmed.
Pre-Order What Is Not Strange? – https://lnk.to/rvngnl114
Tour Dates
06/08/24 – Los Angeles, CA @ 8pm – UPEND at 2220 Arts + Archives – Record Release Show
09/13/24 – Brooklyn, NY @ Roulette
09/14/24 – Philadelphia, PA @ Arts Nova