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Becca Richardson has always navigated uncertain spaces.

As a mixed-race daughter in middle America, someone always feeling “just left of inside,” the questions surrounding what it means to belong and connect have long been on her mind. From her childhood bedroom in small-town Ohio, Richardson found a first spark of connection through her love of music. Her earliest musical memories are of her mother dancing in the kitchen to artists like Fleetwood Mac and Cat Stevens, and her father spinning soulful records from the likes of Coltrane and Phoebe Snow after work. After learning to sing and play the piano and guitar, she discovered a deep passion for songwriting — something that still serves as a powerful tool for discovering herself and carving out a space in the world.

As an adult, Richardson headed west, honing her style in Northern California. That sunny, jangly influence makes an appearance in her songs, combined with her electronic sensuality and a bluesy sensibility. Richardson provides examinations into womanhood, otherness and the concept of autonomy.

After a few years working her way through the San Francisco music scene, Richardson made the move to the musical mecca of Nashville, TN where she quickly began work on her debut album with producers Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Adia Victoria) and Courtney Little. Her LP, We Are Gathered Here, was self-released in October 2017 and has garnered national attention from publications like Paste Magazine and Brightest Young Things, as well as local play on Nashville's Lightning 100 radio.

The I Rise Project is a collaboration led by interfaith minister Rev. Rhetta Morgan and @AstroNautico co-founder Bennett Kuhn (@Kuhnmusic). 

Investigating the Night (dream life, restfulness, nightmares), The I Rise Project mines tools of spiritual growth, enlightenment, and activism, weaving them together in a music of radical uplift. 

Debut single ‘I Rise’ is a sweltering 808-driven announcement of dawn, a blazing, clarion declaration of hope meant to shatter dance floors around the world with two words: “Get up!”

Booking/press: projectirise [at] gmail [dot] com

Whether in his grungy basement studio or on the shoddy stage of a local watering hole, Torito provides a deluge of multisyllabic wit, absurdist imagery, personal musing, and societal reflection. It's a bit like observing a psychotherapy session in which the shrink foregoes the typical elevator music/Yanni/nature sounds playlist in favor of a carefully curated beat set, and the patient attempts to keep a partial grasp of reality, voices all of his thoughts in complex internal rhyme schemes, and wears a leather bull mask.

representing paxico records and field research.  some of my sounds are available for free download. please don't put your rhymes on them and then repost them to your soundcloud page tho.  that is not a mutual collaboration and i am honestly not that interested.  enjoy them. meditate on them. and, most importantly, share your sounds with me.  much love and respect.  thank you kindly.  peace...

Raised in the middle east, based in Philadelphia. 
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It is: World Electronic Folk //  bouncy nostalgia.
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For Booking & Production Contact 
Jaye Rene'
267-342-9378
dahidivine@gmail.com

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