EDWIN RAFAEL with LANEY TRIPP

EDWIN RAFAEL How do you achor yourself when occupying multiple geographic identities at once? For Edwin Raphael, the Dubai-raised, Montreal-based songwriter, it requires an intentional and intensive form of world-building. By developing an unmistakable style of folk that merges Eastern scales with the Western pop canon, Raphael reimagines his music as a exploratory tool that allows him to construct an interior and sacred home to retreat into.LANEY TRIPPLaney Tripp grew up in the sleepy, surf-obsessed Florida enclave of New Smyrna Beach. In combining musing lyrics and folk-y songcraft with an inclination toward experimental soundscapes on previous releases, Tripp has hit on a kind of tropical-folk yin to the yang of Gulf-&-Western artists more often associated with songs that evoke saltwater gallivanting.