Check out a Dutch-Iranian trip-hop artist live or hear a Facebook co-founder discuss wealth inequality. Iranian-born Dutch artist Sevdaliza asks heavy questions in her music. “How can I suffer without the pain? Can we struggle without the shame?” “Am I put into this world solely to embody it?” “When I resolve into the ground, would I feel as if I found what it means?” The philosophical heft of her lyrics about tainted love, personal divinity, and mental illness is matched by her music. It’s a contemporary take on trip-hop that melts broken beats and electronic ambience into moody and […]
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