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Lafawndah

NTS regular Lafawndah has been hosting Devotion w/ Lafawndah since 14 June 2017. Lafawndah has been a regular guest, first appearing on 8 April 2016 and most recently on 11 December 2019. Lafawndah has been played over 70 times on NTS, first on 6 April 2016. Lafawndah's music has been featured on 66 episodes.

Subsequent to the release of her self- titled and TAN EP’s, the creative trajectory of Lafawndah has both fanned out and sharpened, revealing an artist whose vision has only intensified as it expands.

Lafawndah’s journey to her current incarnation as a devotional pop polymath has wound as unpredictably as her compositional style. From a childhood spent under the tutelage of legendary percussion instructor Aderfi Aksil through to her controversial tenure at the short- lived but influential Dassin Sakina Institute, Lafawndah’s traversing of musical and artistic milieus has been defined by a freedom of tone, surrealist sense of space, and assured manipulation of formal and psychological tension.

After two acclaimed, self- directed music videos (Tan and Ally), Lafawndah has continued to tour internationally, where her live shows have become an ever- evolving testing ground for ruptures in the seamless concert experience, pitting committed humor against relentless physicality. Her ongoing relationship with filmmakers Partel Oliva has generated a cinematic body of work where a shared fascination with the counterpoints between music, body, space has paved a new lane for moving image and song. Most recently, this collaboration has resulted in Le Renard Bleu, an album and and companion film made with legendary composed Midori Takada. Further, Lafawndah’s HONEY COLONY mixtape series has put the full extent of her dense, baroque, maximalist production and arrangement style on display, drawing thrilling new potentials from fellow travelers Klein, Bonnie Banane, Kelsey Lu, and Kelela.

In these inversions and re-imaginings (alongside recent new live material), one can trace the influence of artists such as Meredith Monk, Carlos Sara, and Andy Kaufman as much as musical antecedents AR Rahmann, Missy Elliott, or Geinoh Yamashirogumi, all while feeling and sounding only like herself. Uniting these projects and sounds is an overarching widescreen vision, saturated and bracing, sensual and imposing.

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Lafawndah

NTS regular Lafawndah has been hosting Devotion w/ Lafawndah since 14 June 2017. Lafawndah has been a regular guest, first appearing on 8 April 2016 and most recently on 11 December 2019. Lafawndah has been played over 70 times on NTS, first on 6 April 2016. Lafawndah's music has been featured on 66 episodes.

Subsequent to the release of her self- titled and TAN EP’s, the creative trajectory of Lafawndah has both fanned out and sharpened, revealing an artist whose vision has only intensified as it expands.

Lafawndah’s journey to her current incarnation as a devotional pop polymath has wound as unpredictably as her compositional style. From a childhood spent under the tutelage of legendary percussion instructor Aderfi Aksil through to her controversial tenure at the short- lived but influential Dassin Sakina Institute, Lafawndah’s traversing of musical and artistic milieus has been defined by a freedom of tone, surrealist sense of space, and assured manipulation of formal and psychological tension.

After two acclaimed, self- directed music videos (Tan and Ally), Lafawndah has continued to tour internationally, where her live shows have become an ever- evolving testing ground for ruptures in the seamless concert experience, pitting committed humor against relentless physicality. Her ongoing relationship with filmmakers Partel Oliva has generated a cinematic body of work where a shared fascination with the counterpoints between music, body, space has paved a new lane for moving image and song. Most recently, this collaboration has resulted in Le Renard Bleu, an album and and companion film made with legendary composed Midori Takada. Further, Lafawndah’s HONEY COLONY mixtape series has put the full extent of her dense, baroque, maximalist production and arrangement style on display, drawing thrilling new potentials from fellow travelers Klein, Bonnie Banane, Kelsey Lu, and Kelela.

In these inversions and re-imaginings (alongside recent new live material), one can trace the influence of artists such as Meredith Monk, Carlos Sara, and Andy Kaufman as much as musical antecedents AR Rahmann, Missy Elliott, or Geinoh Yamashirogumi, all while feeling and sounding only like herself. Uniting these projects and sounds is an overarching widescreen vision, saturated and bracing, sensual and imposing.

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You, at the End
Lafawndah
Latency2020
Daddy
Lafawndah
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Ally
Lafawndah
Warp Records2016
Le Malentendu (Tirzah & Coby Sey Version)
Lafawndah, Tirzah, Coby Sey feat. Lala &ce
Bleep2021
Old Prayer
Lafawndah
Latency2020
Joseph
Lafawndah
Concordia, !K72019
Due West (Lafawndah Remix)
Kelsey Lu (Lafawndah mix)
Columbia2019
The Stillness
Lafawndah
Latency2020
Tan
Lafawndah
Warp Records2016
Le Renard Bleu
Midori Takada, Lafawndah
!K72018