Making Music featuring: Dessa (Doomtree)
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Theme: Making Music
Dessa Darling is truly a Renaissance woman. She’s a spoken word poet, an emcee for local rap family Doomtree, and a Jerome Grant recipient who also moonlights as a technical writer by day. Her solo release “False Hopes”, earned her a spot on the Star Tribune’s “Top Ten Local Releases” in 2005. David Brusie of Rift Magazine aptly described Dessa’s voice as “equal parts Ani Difranco and Mos Def”. If we have one question to ask at Making Music, ours would be “What can’t this woman do, and do exceedingly well?”
This spring, the Whole Music Club presents the fifth season of Making Music, a series that features long-format discussions with talented musicians about their art. Local musician JG Everest (Lateduster, Vicious Vicious) hosts the show, which includes interviews, live demonstrations, videos, exclusive and unreleased tracks, prizes, and Q+A from the audience. These events are free, all-ages, open to the public, and start at 8pm.
Dessa, Doomtree
Dessa, Doomtree
Dessa, Doomtree
Dessa, Doomtree
4/27/2007Dessa is amazing. period.
I didn't think it was possible to root more for local rap family Doomtree.
Class was in session last night with talented poet Dessa Darling. Not only did she belt out some amazing tunes with support from DJ Paper Tiger and Jessy Greene, but she illustrated wisdom well beyond her years. Her talent was known, but her articulate and unassuming use of multi-syllabic vocab---whoa.
Conversation flowed through Dessa's life experiences, digging deep into her past including a valiantly unpopular endorsement of Cher, crushing on Dave Eggers, her writing process, politics, feminism in rap and hip hop, and even how doomtree mc's get and steal dibs on coveted beats. Paper Tiger even treated the audience to a step-by-step breakdown of how to make magic out of a 2-second sample. Keep her on your radar, they are here to stay, impress and dominate.
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4:36am, 5/13/2008 #23294
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It really made me think, keep up the good work
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