I Just Read About That…

[DID NOT ATTEND: October 25, 2023] L’Rain / Flanafi

I saw L’Rain open for Animal Collective and loved her whole set.  She was charismatic and her band was incredible.

I would have liked to see her headline a show, but I already had tickets to see Les Claypool.

Her blurb says

L’Rain is the musical project of multi-instrumentalist, composer, performer, and curator, Taja Cheek. Alongside Andrew Lappin and Ben Chapoteau-Katz, she has developed L’Rain into a shape-shifting entity that blurs the distinction between band and individual. At once personal and collaborative, it mirrors the journey that brought L’Rain into being to begin with.
L’Rain’s sonic explorations interrogate instead how multiplicities of emotion and experience intersect with identity. The experimental and the hyper-commercial; the expectation and the reality; the hope and the despair. L’Rain is searching for balance in the obliteration of binary logic.

I had never heard of.  The blurb says

Flanafi is the musical nom de plume of songwriter and guitarist Simon Martinez. As a guitarist, Martinez has played with everyone from Jazmine Sullivan and Marsha Ambrosius to Derrick Hodge and Salami Rose Joe Louis. 3 years ago, Martinez debuted the Flanafi moniker with a barrage of releases that combined beautifully written indie-soul songs with intriguing electronic production.

Listening to a couple of songs, they are pleasant enough, soft and delicate.