Deradoorian

Angel Deradoorian entered a solo path after establishing her presence through work with Dirty Projectors, Avey Tare, and Flying Lotus, merging indie rock textures, global sounds, and understated dance grooves. Her two full-length projects, The Expanding Flower Planet from 2015 and Find the Sun from 2020, function as expansive, spiritually guided song cycles.

Born July 18, 1986, she spent her childhood outside Sacramento, California. At age five her parents arranged violin instruction, yet the instrument failed to engage her; piano proved more suitable once she began lessons at seven. During adolescence she gravitated toward Radiohead and Elliott Smith, and once she could drive she started frequenting the Berkeley music community. By sixteen she had resolved to pursue music professionally. After moving to Brooklyn she secured her first prominent assignment, playing bass on tour with Dirty Projectors following the 2007 release of Rise Above. She contributed to the band’s subsequent album, 2009’s Bitte Orca, and that same year issued her debut solo EP, Mind Raft, a five-track set produced by Dirty Projectors’ David Longstreth. She supplied vocals to Discovery’s 2009 debut LP, the project of Rostam Batmanglij from Vampire Weekend and Wesley Miles from Ra Ra Riot. Additional guest spots appeared on recordings by the Roots, Flying Lotus, Matmos, and Brandon Flowers, while she also became a member of Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, the side project of an Animal Collective participant.

The Expanding Flower Planet, her first proper solo album, arrived in 2015, recorded and co-produced by Kenny Gilmore. Further guest contributions followed on projects by Boots, Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam, and Avey Tare. In 2017 she issued Eternal Recurrence on Anticon, a continuous suite of ambient drone-folk that departed from earlier approaches. After several digital releases, among them the 2020 EP The Cosmic Garden, she delivered Find the Sun, her third album, on Anti- Records. Developed in New York with percussionist Samer Ghadry and multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington before being tracked in a Marin County beach house, the record stands as her most collaborative effort to date.