Rootsy Orchestral Folk Pop 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 orchestral folk pop with a heart ache for classic country and swing.

Hard to pin down, but instantly familiar, her tongue in cheek lyricism, vintage vocals, and Koetke-style picking guitar paint a sonic kaleidoscope. After nearly a decade of touring around the States Aba settled in Brooklyn to release her debut album "I'm One Too" (November 2014) where the nuanced complexity of her raw folk songs expanded to contain an entire orchestra thanks to composer and producer Kate Copeland.

In 2016 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 pursuing more vocally-driven music inspired by Sámi folk songs.

Rootsy orchestral folk pop crooning lullabies for a revelatory future. Hard to pin down, but instantly familiar: tongue in cheek lyricism, vintage vocals, and Koetke-style picking guitar paint a sonic kaleidoscope. Vocal-driven songwriting, braiding live harmonies together to accompany prayerful lyrics for a revelatory future, calling in all the forces we will need to survive our current apocalypse.