Desert Island's 200th Episode Party w~The Nunnery, Freaque and Theyself at Palmer’s
KFAI radio program Desert Islands is celebrating it's 200th Episode every Wednesday in June at Palmers! Doc, aka Theyself + guests each one
Desert Islands is a weekly program that airs every Wednesday from 10-NOON (CST) hosted by Doc on KFAI. Each week the playlist is a mixtape based on their guests' top 10, all time favorite, desert island records. KFAI'S DESERT ISLANDS
On June 1 Desert Islands will hit 200 episodes and to celebrate Doc's birth month they're gonna curate a night of music from 7-10pm every Wednesday night in June featuring former guests of the show.
Theyself~a panic attack you can dance to!
The Nunnery begins with one voice, layered upon itself becoming a lush soundscape. Sarah Elstran is an independent musician that bridges the gap between bright-eyed pop composition and hands-on atmospheric live layering of voice. Her vocal loops give us the kind of detail and wide multi-octave range that we might come to expect from a marquee pop star, while her production decisions continually keep us guessing as to what rabbit holes her tracks might fall into next.
Gabriel Rodreick grew up playing the piano in his south Minneapolis home — for eleven years, he told me, until a C5 spinal injury he incurred a little over eleven years ago paralyzed him from the armpits down and severely limited the mobility in his hands. Three years post-injury, he entered the music world again, singing in the seven-piece funk band Treading North. A little over a year ago, Rodreick found a way to return to the instrument he grew up playing: by using the eraser of a pencil affixed to his wrist brace.
As Freaque, the moniker for his solo work, Rodreick explained that he's making the kind of music he's always aspired to make: a kind of stripped-down folk, centered on storytelling, and sensitive to the darker side of human experience. It's a sound he's coined "dirt folk." "Post-injury, I tend towards darkness," Roreick said, after citing Tom Waits as a major influence. "Not in a depressive or negative way — I try to shine a little light on the darkness; it's always there, and it's within all of us."