[THESSENCE]
In times when your head can explode any minute from some insidious post highlighting the corruption of our system, how white collars don't do time, and, no matter what administration is in office, America shapes other countries by nefarious means, by hurting, killing with drone strikes or things even darker. I want to escape, have to escape into divergent moving art if only for moments because keeping a sane head is important.
Boh Doran, what an interesting name... the track "Cat's Cradle" has the free spirit of youth before we knew about real evil and before our cell phones were connected to our brains and even though Doran's ethereal pop song has a heavy, even bittersweet underbelly, there is tenderness in her vocal aesthetic and within that tenderness I hear hope. For me, at this time there might not be anything more beautiful right now, as grabbing a skateboard and chilling while listening to Boh Doran's sweet glide.
The Artist shares:
I was watching the scene in Little Fires Everywhere where Kerry Washington’s character is playing with the cat’s cradle.
It’s about secrets, the nature of art and identity and the danger in believing following the rules can avert disaster
I extended this to my own life and thought of the cat’s cradle as an analogy for the different networks in our lives, and our place in them. Inside of the cities, institutions, friend groups, industries and families everything is connected in a ‘game’ where we are the players. There is so much back and forth, truth and lies, living and dying for things. The politicking of it!
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Singer-songwriter producer Boh Doran combines alternative indie and dreamy new wave into an ethereal pop sound. Her music has been covered by LADYGUNN, Glamour, Italian Vogue, The Huffington Post, WFNM, Radar Online, Kings of A&R, The Burning Ear, and other tastemakers.
She went to college in Washington DC where she started a band, got signed to a small indie label and moved to Brooklyn. After waiting tables, performing weekly, and making three albums, she quit the band and moved to LA to pursue a solo career. There she met Jon Kaplan (New Politics, Augustana) and Ethan Mentzer (The Click Five) who helped make her first EP which debuted on Spotify’s New Music Friday and had a viral #7 song “White Knuckles.”
After getting her experience in LA as a session singer and top liner, she became interested in learning how to produce and record herself. With that eagerness to learn and desire to discover her own sound, she went to music production school at Beatlab Academy. She then spent four years behind the scenes, developing her craft, writing and producing, DJing at local LA bars, composing for television, and singing backup for other artists (such as Dua Lipa).
Her influences range from music like Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morrissette, Pinback, Third Eye Blind and The Cranberries to LA underground beat music like Daedalus, and 80s new wave like Cocteau Twins and The Cure.
She stands for women and people of any background to believe in themselves enough to learn all the skills they need to find their own voice and make a mark in the world.
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