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Isabeau Waia'u Walker
(photo credit: Romnick Dancel & Kapu Dancel Waiaʻu)
Bright gloom, a single duality of the many that define Isabeau Waia’u Walker. Songs that are soothing and soft while powerful, accessible while complex, sweet but aching. The tension of the contradiction that she holds nest in her core and reverberates through the layers of her product: storytelling, collaboration, presentation, music. Culture, race, and language surface in her work; half a life in her native Hawai'i, the second in Oregon. For over a decade of being a high school teacher, she made music, slowly amassing an impressive YouTube subscribership. She orchestrated an early retirement from education to redirect attention to music, allowing her to tour as a member of Y La Bamba and to record her own EP, Better Metric. “Woman,” a track off the EP, making OPB music’s Oregon’s top songs of 2020. Her first full length album digitally releases May 15, 2022.
Try the Pie
Led by the self-taught San Francisco-based Bean Kaloni Tupou (they/them), Try the Pie was formed in 2006 and draws upon a Tongan-American and a Bay Area punk background to piece impromptu harmony, poetic imagery, soft guitar melodies, dissonance, and noise. Try the Pie has since grown to include Nick Lopez on drums, Bailey Lupo on bass and Laine Barriga on guitar in the full band version. Most of Tupou’s music is based heavily on mixing present and past experiences with both country, indie and Polynesian-influenced song writing, inherited histories, and oral storytelling of a poetic nature.
Brown Calculus
(photo credit: Jermaine Ulinwa)
Brown Calculus explores the soundscapes of the post-soul movement. Keyboardist and beat maker, Andre Burgos, and singer/songwriter, Vaughn Kimmons, are Geminis, illuminating the sacredness of Black music, seeking to bring about community on Earth and beyond. They reveal the connection between complicated time signatures and Black divinity, with a cosmic sound that remains grounded. Sharing the same body in their past lives, they perform with melanated synergy.
Doors- 6:30pm
Show- 7:30pm