Cohen, who grew up in upstate NY, moved from Brooklyn to L.A. in 2011. Though she began playing guitar at age thirteen, her songwriting idiom emerged gradually from her longstanding noise and drone practice. Her poetic, out-of-time recordings as Itasca—refined over the course of several releases, including three for Paradise of Bachelors—reflect both this dislocated geography and her Janus-faced gaze towards both baroque, acid folk-inflected songcraft and deconstructive, textural sonics.
New Orthodox is a new project from Nicholas Merz and friends.
Mike Donovan from Sic Alps and Peacers kicks this one off.