Rootsy EXPERIMENTAL Folk for a revelatory future

About

Abakis (a.k.a. Aba Kiser) Growing up in Virginia singing jazz at her father’s restaurant, musical firebrand, and multi-instrumentalist Abakis creates genre-bending experimental folk for a revelatory future.

Hard to pin down, but instantly familiar, her tongue in cheek lyricism, vintage vocals, and Koetke-style picking guitar paint a sonic kaleidoscope. Aba released her debut album "I'm One Too" in New York, NY where the nuanced complexity of her raw folk songs expanded to contain an entire orchestra thanks to composer and producer Kate Copeland.

Abakis was selected as a fellow of the Dosti Music Project, a collaborative music residency bringing together musicians from India, Pakistan and the United States. She has toured nationally as back-up for the likes of Eleanor Murray and Ings. Aba is currently working on her second album, a love letter of living grief to those lost in the turbulence of our times.

Vocal-driven songwriting. Braiding live harmonies in service to a revelatory future. Calling in all the forces we will need to survive our current apocalypse.