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Sep 21

AudioBoat: Yalls in San Francisco Bay


Floating concerts by pop experimentalist Yalls on the Red and White Fleet along the San Francisco waterfront and under the moving spectacle of The Bay Lights

The AudioBoat is a moving venue, Red & White Fleet’s Harbor Queen ferry in the San Francisco Bay, giving audiences an adventurous floating sonic experience like never before. Under the magical Bay Lights of the Bay Bridge and along San Francisco’s waterfront, the sound artists and musicians curated for the AudioBoat perform live scores to the scenery moving past them, creating a love letter to the City by the Bay.

Yalls is a Berkeley-based producer/singer/songwriter giving notice with his brand of “sun-kissed synth-pop to quirky hip-hop instrumentals and glitched excursions of post-aughts soul to tropical-tinged, vocal-led boom-bap” to the AudioBoat, featuring two special tours, a dramatic sunset tour and a beautiful night lights tour.

 

Event partner: Google Glass

What started as an experiment with electronic songwriting has grown to become Yalls, a name which stands for a diverse and prolific output, with Dan Casey issuing everything from sun-kissed synth-pop to quirky hip-hop instrumentals and glitched excursions of post-aughts soul to tropical-tinged, vocal-led boom-bap. Appearing on a variety of taste-making micro-labels and regularly flushing his various web outlets with immersive one-offs and inventive remixes, Yalls has built a reputation as a producer who may be hard to pin down in exact terms, but is always reliable for delivering delicious hooks and poignant melodies—a fact that has certainly translated to his live performances, having graced stages alongside Grimes, Tune-Yards, Neon Indian, Matthew Dear & more.

United, the first proper full-length album by Yalls, is a cohesive amalgamation of the sound Casey has been exploring. It combines elements of mid-60’s funk, modern experimental beatmaking, and pop music – firmly placing the listener in a unique space somewhere between defunct dance halls and outer space.

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