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Wednesday, March 9, 2022

SXSW 2022: Luna Li

Flood has come out with set times for their day parties at Mohawk.  Given the limited number of day parties this year I have a feeling the only way to get in is to arrive early. 

This multi-instrumentalist is playing Wednesday at 1pm. It's the moniker of Toronto based Hannah Bussere Kim. Her album is getting great reviews. Pitchfork says:

Over the course of its 13 tracks, Li and producer/bandmate Braden Sauder pass a thread through the buoyant harmonies of late-’60s Beach Boys and ELO, the acidic soul of Shuggie Otis and Eddie Hazel-era Funkadelic, the space-age synth-phonies of Stereolab and Air, and the post-chillwave R&B of We Are KING and recent Tame Impala. (The album’s daydreamy milieu is disrupted only by “Star Stuff,” a garage-rock sprint where Li channels her inner Karen O.) 

This article talks about her inspiration for the album:

  to provide a safe place for people who feel like they don’t belong. It’s something that the 25-year-old Toronto musician can relate to well, her experience of growing up between two cultures sometimes leaving her feeling like she didn’t fully fit in with either. “I’m half-Korean, half-Canadian so [I was] trying to find this balancing act of the two cultures that I come from,” she explains.

Apparently Japanese Breakfast is a big fan.  She has opened for them on the last tour.  John Laird from 101X Homegrown picks her as one of the "8 Must-see live shows" of SXSW.



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