ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY CHARLIE DUDA (©2021 EXOTIC PET SONGS (BMI)), EXCEPT “PLEASE IRENE” WRITTEN BY CHARLIE DUDA AND DANNY CAPORALETTI  //  DRUMS BY MICHAEL BENJAMIN LERNER  //  ADDITIONAL HARMONIES ON “ROLLER COASTER”, “REALLY REALLY”, AND “MARBLES” BY CAMERON LEAHY  //  PRODUCED, ENGINEERED, AND MIXED BY CHARLIE DUDA  //  MASTERED BY TODD TOBIAS  //  ARTWORK BY ANDRIY BOYAR

Roller Coaster

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Is This It?

In 2020, Los Angeles-based producer Maral released her debut full-length LP 'Push,' via Leaving Records. KEXP's Isabel Khalili recently spoke with Maral about the creation of the record, how she samples classical Iranian music as well as her vision for continuing to reinterpret this music and culture in her own work. They also discuss Persian poetry, what Maral calls “the spiritual melancholy of being Iranian," the transcendence of club music, and how she came to collaborate with Lee “Scratch” Perry and Penny Rimbaud of Crass.

Read a text version of the feature here: https://www.kexp.org/read/2021/3/3/let-distortion-sing-maral-spiritual-melancholy-and-future-iranian-music/

“Let the Distortion Sing”: Maral on Spiritual Melancholy and the Future of Iranian Music

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Charlie Duda played in bands for most of his younger years in northern Virginia, but the singer-songwriter, ensconced in L.A. the past four years, never released any solo music until 2020.

Last spring brought the release of his debut EP, “Making Friends” — six songs that ought to find him a slew of buddies among devotees of affecting guitar-pop of the psych and jangling/chiming variety.

The new EP, “Roller Coaster,” will be out June 4, and, like his first, it’s a DIY affair made in his Sherman Oaks bedroom, though it hardly sounds like a bedroom effort. The drums were tracked remotely by Michael Benjamin Lerner of Seattle’s Telekinesis. 

Duda is treading in the footsteps of some pretty impressive guitar-slingers (British and American) so far, but it seems well worth following him on his path.

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