Kowa Napa, California
Based in Napa, Ca, Kowa is the collaboration of Robinson Kuntz and Peter Davies. Becoming friends in 1st grade, the two have been making music together for most of their music-making lives (formerly in Buttercream Gang, and Glial Cell). Playing live instruments around electronic drums, Kowa create soundscapes that play with genres from tropicalia to electro-pop, krautrock to country. ... more
Kowa recommends:
Such a good energy that has so many great details, but never screams for your attention. It's like a relaxed, effortless conversation with someone you're getting to know for the first time.
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Saw her play a show in Oakland and was transfixed. Such a great energy and the songs here (though not with a full band) have such beautiful, vulnerable spirit.
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This Is How You Smile
by Helado Negro
Such a gentle yet groovy album.
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A quirky, infectious experimental pop EP that digs into the conventions of millennial ennui - no future, too much tech - to find connection.
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