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Catalan duo Tarta Relena make their San Francisco debut at The Lab, after a standout performance at Unsound 2024 and on their way to Big Ears 2025.
The project was born in 2016 by two singers who explore a cappella the sounds of the different styles in vocal music. Tarta Relena wants to build a repertoire that goes from traditional music to original songs that are related to the geographical area of the Mediterranean. They do not fear to widen the limits of the sacred and the profane. Experimentation is the core of their identity, and the blend of vocal techniques is their creative engine. In the arrangements, the two very different timbres live together with the synthetic sounds and electronic samples. Always looking for complexity in simplicity and maximum expression with the minimum of elements.
Tarta Relena presents a new album that flirts with the notion of tragic thinking: diverse characters who find themselves facing unstoppable consequences, known and unknown at the same time. A conceptual mix of what fate has ready for us, our thirst for knowledge and the inability to integrate future versions of ourselves. They try to capture in music and lyrics the tension and mystery of what we do not understand, coming from logics that escape our usual ways of existing.
Sholeh Asgary (b. Iran) engages performance, interdisciplinary forms, and collective processes to investigate, memorialize, and express the complexities of joy and survival inherent in diasporic and refugee experiences. Her work challenges colonial assumptions about what is heard, proposing new futures through sound. Featured in Art in America's 2022 "New Talent Issue," Asgary was a Bay Area Now 9 artist at YBCA, a 2023 Artadia Finalist, and part of the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (2024). She is exhibited in PST-Getty's Atmosphere of Sound and supported by institutions such as PICA, MASS MoCA, and Headlands. Asgary is faculty at UC Berkeley.
Leila Abdul-Rauf is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Oakland. She is a main songwriter, guitarist, vocalist, lyricist and co-founder of extreme metal band Vastum and electronic ambient trio Ionophore. As a solo artist using voice, trumpet and electronics as primary instruments, Leila has released five full-length albums under her name, and has collaborated with countless others. She has toured nationally and internationally, including performances at Hopscotch Music Festival in 2016, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival reception in 2018, Seattle’s Northwest Terror Fest in 2022, and the Arab American National Museum in 2024.
Using voice, trumpet and synthesizer as primary instruments, Leila Abdul-Rauf creates a cinematic atmosphere of introspection, accessing what is often unconscious and obscured by the human condition; songs are not so much composed as captured from dreams.