Oakland record label

Stream Katsy Pline's first single, "Pining" off her upcoming album, Incandescent Fire now: https://takeaturn.bandcamp.com/album/incandescent-fire

If Kate Bush was born in Bakersfield, she would cosign on Al Harper’s newest LP, Promises I Kept. 

But even if Kate Bush could identify her influence nestled in the catchy lilts and dips of Oakland-based Al Harper’s stunning and subtly-spooky vocals, so could a constellation of other vocalists: the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Jane Penny of TOPS, and Isabelle Antena (humming some Dolly Parton down a dusk-lit road in Kern County, perhaps). With her own refreshed and personalized look-back to early aughts synthpop meets 70s slow-burn guitar and 60s girl-group drums to keep the beat, Harper’s delicate and direct lyrics rocket through the liminal space that’s neither now nor then. Al Harper is in a dreamy orbit all her own.

Al Harper is following