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Natalia Lafourcade and Leon Bridges on Songwriting, Death, and Time Travel
MCO Studios is a quiet, woodsy space tucked away in the leafy neighborhood of Anzures in Mexico City. With its sky-high ceilings and the bursting trees on the patio, it’s a site that reflects the beauty of the Mexican capital, and singers Leon Bridges and Natalia Lafourcade are immediately at peace when they arrive here one bright afternoon in August.
It could be because both of them have been finding endless inspiration in Mexico City. Lafourcade was born here, and in the past several years, she’s made albums like the two-part Musas projects and 2022’s De Todas las Flores, digging into folk sounds from her hometown and the rest of Latin America. Bridges is a more recent arrival; after releasing three acclaimed, soul– and R&B-inspired LPs, he found himself in need of a change of scenery. The Fort Worth, Texas, native decided to come to Mexico, where he recorded this y
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Moonlight’s Orchestral Manoeuvers: A duett by Shakira Holt and Christopher Chien
On January 10th, 2017, A24 + AFROPUNK + Wordless Music + Spaceland presented Moonlight at the historic Million Dollar Theater in Downtown Los Angeles with the Wordless Music orchestra as live accompaniment. The oldest and once-largest theater in LA, The Million Dollar has a capacity of around 2000 people. Reviewers Shakira Holt and Chris Chien attended separately, but were brought together on Facebook via SO! editorial magic for a discussion on the sonic valences of the film and the entire event experience.
Shakira Holtis a Southern Cali-based high school lit teacher with a doctorate in English from the University of Southern California. She’s deeply interested in the intersections of race, religion, sexuality, class, and politics. This is hersecond piece for SO!; Her first, “‘I Love to beröm His Name’: Shouting as Feminine Disruption, Public Ecstasy, and Audio-Vis
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