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Merge Records release Pigments, the debut collaboration between New Orleans electro-revival dynamo Dawn Richard and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer Zahn. Pigments is a project about the power of self-expression through living art, through motion. Its also a love letter to New Orleans, Louisiana. Not strictly classical, jazz or ambient electronica but rather a body of movements, it is an expressive soundscape that is an immersive passage through the city as seen through the eyes of a young black girl with dreams to paint her future with the pigments given to her. Richard explains: Spencer wanted to create one long piece of music that would ebb and flow around my lyrics and emotions, which tell a story of growing to love my own skin. I wanted my voice to be moss surrounding the roots of Spencers compo- sitions, never forcing the moment to fill every space but rather reveling in the openness of thought and breath. Zahn agrees, saying, I wanted to work with all these different textures, tones, and colors to have a new sound to frame Dawns voice and lyrics. To hear a lone clarinet as the breath fades and a cello continues its melody to cue Dawns vocal entrance is unlike any other record she has made. These are things that excite me as a composer but more as a listener. I hope that other listeners feel the same. Coming on the heels of Dawn Richards critically acclaimed Merge debut Second Line, Pigments introduces listeners to a different facet of Richards outrageous talent and brings Zahns thoughtful creativity to a new audience.
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