On Saturday, October 5th at 4:15pm, Frontal Lobe will host a live conversation with Los Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada ahead of his 8pm performance later that night at San Francisco’s The Lab.
Originally from New York, as a young person Wada was steeped in experimental music and art by virtue of his father Yoshi Wada’s connection to and participation in the interdisciplinary Fluxus ethos of creation. Wada often utilizes alternative, intentionally-wrought tuning schemas in his work, and his projects frequently culminate in collaboration with other artists. He also helms the Saltern label, distributing new pressings and re-releases of visionary, often abstract projects from around the world.
What Is Not Strange? (Plancha, 2024) is the first full-length solo album by Wada, comprising his most far-reaching and impassioned music to date, recorded with Julia Holter, Ezra Buchla, and Corey Fogel. Created over a four-year period that encompassed the death of his father and the birth of his daughter, the album sees Wada reflecting inward to explore broad narratives—being alive, mortality, finding one’s place in the world—through new modes of ecstatic, song-based expression.
Some of Wada’s previous works include FRKWYS Vol. 14 – Nue ( RVNG, 2018), The Duets (Saltern, 2014), Alignment (Yik Yak, 2010) and Gradient 7″ (De Stijl, 2012).
