....Angel Deradoorian that is, who has been recording and releasing music mononymously since 2009.
Sixteen years later, I've found Deradoorian courtesy of a new single and video for Set Me Free, ahead of third album Ready For Heaven, which according to the promo blurb, deals with "with heaven and earth, damnation and salvation".
All pretty standard fare, you might reasonably suppose, but there's something pleasingly subversive about Set Me Free, which somehow manages to evoke chamber pop, 70s prog and 80s Barbara Dickson. All of which sounds like a recipe for disaster, but works.
I've had a dip in to the back catalogue and selected three songs from her debut Mind Raft EP (2009) and previous albums The Expanding Flower Planet (2015) and Find The Sun (2020).
Deradoorian's Bandcamp page includes all of these, plus her forays into extended improvisations and drones, the latter inspired by her Armenian heritage. Fascinating stuff.
Angel also found time to team up with Moscow-based artist Kate Shilonosova, who releases music as Kate NV. The pair formed Decisive Pink, which on first listen I can only describe as off-kilter synth pop. Here are two of the three videos that I've found online.
There's a rather fab Jane Weaver remix of their debut single Haffmilch Holiday, which is right up my strasse.
Rounding off today's post, with a return to Deradoorian and the Ready For Heaven album (out on May 9th, by the way). Digital Gravestone was released last December, the first hint of what was to come.
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