Dessa with Arthur Moon — live event
Dessa is a force on stage, on the page, and on record. Working as a singer, rapper, and writer, she’s made a career of bucking genres and defying expectations. The LA Times says simply she “sounds like no one else.” NPR’s All Songs Considered deems her “a national treasure.” “Language was my first love,” says Dessa. And her style turns on her wordcraft; in her lyrics you can hear the deftness of an emcee and the observational acumen of a fiction writer. Her albums have a wide wingspan sonically, including rap bangers; a cappella arrangements; and big, catchy pop hooks. On the invitation of Lin-Manuel Miranda, she contributed a track to gold record The Hamilton Mixtape; she covered a Mountain Goats song released by Merge Records, and through her home label, Doomtree, she released a live album with the GRAMMY-winning Minnesota Orchestra. Arthur Moon is the moniker of Lora-Faye Åshuvud, who lives and works in Brooklyn, where they were raised. Åshuvud takes an intuitive and unusual approach to composition, melding pop, electronic, and experimental sensibilities to make music that is as unpredictable and playful as it is intricate and controlled. NPR’s Bob Boilen writes of Arthur Moon’s Tiny Desk performance that they have “the quirky freshness I first heard from New York artists such as Laurie Anderson and Talking Heads in the late 1970s and more recently with Dirty Projectors.” Åshuvud collaborates on the Arthur Moon project with Cale Hawkins (Quincy Jones, Raveena), Martin D. Fowler (a composer for This American Life), Dave Palazola (Sinkane), and Aviva Jaye (Dessa, Emily King).
Starts: 2023-10-20T19:30:36Z
Ends: 2023-10-20T21:30:36Z
Where: 158 Bleecker Street, New York, New York 10012, United States
Price: $26.78