Folk artist Raye Zaragoza released her new album Woman In Color today via Rebel River Records. Produced by Grammy-nominated Tucker Martine (Neko Case, My Morning Jacket, First Aid Kit, The Decemberists, Modest Mouse, Sufjan Stevens), the album has ready landed at #11 on the NACC Folk Chart.
From the press release: Indigenous on her father’s side, first-generation Japanese-American on her mother’s, and raised in a New York City studio apartment, Raye Zaragoza pairs perspective with talent. Throughout the album, she holds no distinction between her personal truth and its poignant political relevance. As a young woman of color, Raye is attuned to the inevitable politicization of her very existence, and at the forefront of that existence, an artist—a lyricist of true precocity, a vocalist of stunning virtuosity—making meaning through music.
Tracklist:
1.Change Your Name
2.Fight Like A Girl
3.The It Girl
4.He Calls Me River
5.Warrior
6.Run With The Wolves
7.Red
8.Rebel Soul
9.They Say
10.Ghosts Of Houston Street
OVERALL RATING: 3½ stars
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