Lafawndah announces UK tour dates
LAFAWNDAH ANNOUNCES UK TOURDATES FOR MAY
LONDON SHOW TOMORROW @ EFES SNOOKER CLUB (NTS IS 5 EVENT)
NEW EP TAN OUT NOW ON WARP RECORDS
Lafawndah is pleased to announce short run of UK tours dates in support of Tan, her debut EP for Warp Records. In May, she’ll play Rye Wax, London (4th) before supporting Shobaleader One at Gorilla, Manchester (6th) and Islington Assembly Hall, London (8th). Please see below for a comprehensive list of EU tour dates, which also include appearances at Berghain, Berlin and Barcelona’s Sonar festival.
Lafawndah live
06 April – London, Efes Snooker Club (NTS IS 5)
04 May – London, Rye Wax
06 May – Manchester, Gorilla (w/ Shobaleader One)
07 May – Czech Republic, Stimul Festival
08 May – London, Islington Assembly Hall (w/ Shobaleader One)
10 June – Berlin, Kantine am Berghain
11 June – Brussels, Beursschouwburg
15-19 June – Barcelona, Sonar Festival
“Ally” video
Ahead of this, Lafawndah is set to play tomorrow at the NTS IS 5 event at Efes Snooker Hall, London. For an idea of what to expect at these shows, Lafawndah has put together a fresh influences playlist on Spotify. Notably, this will be her first live performance since signing to Warp Reords and the release of Tan.
Praise for Tan EP
“Town Crier”
“with her fresh, forward-facing approach to sound, Dazed 100 alumnus Lafawndah is the cream of New York’s new wave of underground producers” – Dazed Digital
“Fantastical, not exotic – the Egyptian-Iranian performer draws on her heritage to create pop from another planet” – The Guardian
“Brutal beats, sawing strings, glitchy electronica: the Egyptian-Iranian singer’s new single takes your breath away” – The Times
About Lafawndah
Lafawndah has only been making music for a relatively short time, but already she’s causing ripples worldwide with her futuristic take on global electronic music, taking influence from Nina Simone, Grace Jones, Missy Elliot, Kate Bush, traditional Middle Eastern singers, dancehall queens and the Night Slugs label’s modernist take on grime and bass.
For her debut self-titled EP Lafawndah flew to Guadeloupe to work with Portuguese producer Garagem Banda, Emily King, and zouk veteran Jean Claude Bichara. Similarly, the recording of Tan began on an island with the same minimal studio set-up. This time, with collaborators Nick Weiss and Tamer Fahri, it was Fire Island off the South Shore of New York rather than the Caribbean island. Soon enough proceedings hopped to the totemic island of Manhattan, where she embodied the role of executive producer by folding the like-minded ADR and L-Vis 1990 into her process to help realize a warped vision of esoteric industrial rhythms fused to an aggressive palate of nomadic atmospherics.
“Tan” video
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