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DERADOORIAN

Angel Deradoorian’s new album, Find the Sun, invokes very different imagery compared to her aptly titled solo debut The Expanding Flower Planet, released in 2015. The sensual dance macabre of “Saturnine Night,” the mantra-like repetition of “The Illuminator,” the marching menace of closing track “Sun”—though created with improvisational abandon, these songs are imbued with the tactile quality and purpose of ancient artifacts. With the

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