Santigold Announces Noble Champions Podcast

SANTIGOLD

Announces New Weekly Podcast Noble Champions,
Distributed By Talkhouse

Listen to the Trailer, First Episode Out 10/31

Spirituals Teas Available 10/31 On Santigold.com

New Album Spirituals, Out Now
Buy/Save Spirituals

Santigold has announced Noble Champions, a modern day salon, created and hosted by her and distributed by Talkhouse. Listen to the trailer and subscribe here ahead of the first episode’s debut on October 31st. In each weekly episode, she sits down with some of today’s leading artists, authors, activists, and progressive thinkers who stand up, stick up and speak up for important causes. Inspired by the artist, Kandinsky, when he said that periods during which art has no noble champions are ones of retrogression, these candid no-holds-barred roundtable conversations where ideas and experiences are exchanged, are where Santi and her fellow champions try to make some sense out of our world, to push culture forward. Boundary-expanding and defiantly vulnerable, Noble Champions is a public invitation to an intimate gathering of the minds. The first season features guests: Tunde Adebimpe, Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), Sanford Biggers, Bun B, Idris Elba, Mary Anais Heglar, Dan Kovalik, Resmaa Menakem, Questlove, Rebecca Walker, Olivia Wilde, Saul Williams, and Angela Yee.

Santigold’s Spirituals teas will be available at Santigold.com starting October 31st.  The tea line was realized during the creation of her new album of the same name, whose themes it shares. As a lover of tea, Santi came up with the idea of offering a way for fans of her music to experience the songs’ themes in a multi-sensory way, in this case through taste. She created three teas for the first collection: Brand New Tea, I Heart Tea, and No Stress Zone Tea. Each tea is a custom blend that brings together ingredients which support reducing stress and anxiety, releasing fears, clearing energy and consciousness, opening the heart, and nurturing peace. Recognizing the prioritizing of self in rituals, these teas are intended to help create space for self-care and spiritual intention.

Song Exploder just released an episode with Santigold breaking down the creation and themes behind her Spirituals track “Ushers of the New World”. Listen to the episode here. Santi also recently sat down with Rolling Stone and Variety for in-depth discussions on the unsustainable reality artists are facing and how it is a part of a cultural crisis.

About Santigold

Santigold is a genre-defying musician, style renegade, and visionary artist across multiple platforms celebrated for her fearless ability to fuse unexpected elements into bold new work. An artist whose perseverance relies on invention, her singular aesthetic has made her a major muse watched by the inspired world.

In the four years since Santigold’s incendiary I Don’t Want: The Gold Fire Sessions mixtape which was acclaimed for its adventurous experimentation with Afro-Caribbean rhythms, she collaborated with groundbreaking and foundational reggae pioneer U-Roy on a cover of the classic “Man Next Door” from what became his final album and has been working on music that captures the feeling of surviving in the modern world while elevating yourself to new places. Spirituals is her first solo release since 2018.

Renowned for her iconography, Santigold has collaborated with visual artists including Kehinde Wiley, Wangechi Mutu, Kara Walker, and Sanford Biggers. She has also done various brand collaborations for shoe, accessory, and cosmetics lines, as well as had comedic roles on The Office, and Adult Swim’s NTSF:SD:SUV. Since her last full-length release, she has been engaging new ways to express and release her ideas in a variety of mediums, allowing her greater range to be even truer to her creative intentions on her own terms. “I’ve been tired of the cycle of making records and touring,” she explains while discussing her multidisciplinary interests. “I want to branch out throughout all forms of art, and I’m really excited to take my music into new places, too.”

While taking yourself to new places is core to her outlook at this point in her impressive career, she has always been an artist who has charted new paths in the world of pop music and beyond, breaking down barriers of genre along the way, further cementing her as an essential artist when surveying the last two decades of popular culture at large.

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About Talkhouse

Talkhouse is a Webby-Award-winning first-person media company and outlet for musicians, actors, filmmakers, and others in their respective fields. Artists write essays and criticism from firsthand perspectives, speak one-on-one with their peers via the Talkhouse Podcast and Talkhouse Live events, and offer readers and listeners unique insight into creative work of all genres and generations. Talkhouse is writing and conversations about music and film, from the people who make them. Recently launched series include Listening, an unprecedented new program featuring Jeff Tweedy, Neko Case and more that The Guardian describes as “part podcast, part album,” as well as Björk: Sonic Symbolism, which GQ praises as “a road map to the creative life,” delivering what The New Yorker calls “a rare chance to listen in as one of the most mysterious and mystical artists working today explains herself.”

Our audience has come to understand and cherish the fact that we serve as a platform for getting them inside the minds of their favorite artists and filmmakers. As one of the only “first-person” media outlets, Talkhouse allows musicians, actors and filmmakers to reach fans directly, in their own words. By working directly with creators from the worlds of music and film, Talkhouse has built a media brand that is firmly rooted in authenticity, credibility, and creativity – and, through branded content initiatives and special projects, we aim to bring those values to life together with like-minded partners. Follow Talkhouse at Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.