Angel Deradoorian
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Angel Deradoorian (born July 18, 1986), also known mononymously as Deradoorian, is a musician based in Los Angeles, California.[1] She is best known for her work with Dirty Projectors as full-time member from 2007 to 2012. She left to pursue a solo career.[2][3] In 2015 she released a solo studio album, The Expanding Flower Planet.[4]
Life and career
Born and raised in Orangevale, California[5] and of Armenian descent,[6] Deradoorian first found an interest in music at the age of five, when she was taught violin and piano at the private school she attended.[3][6] Both her parents are artists and she has an older sister Arlene, who also tours with her performing solo material.[5][7] At the age of 16 she decided to leave school and pursue a career in music.[6][5] She moved to Brooklyn, joined Drive-thru Records band An Angle and then shortly after in 2007 she joined Dirty Projectors and played an important role in the recording of the album Bitte Orca.[5] In 2012, she moved to Los Angeles together with her then-boyfriend Avey Tare.[5][8]
Deradoorian's debut EP, Mind Raft, was released under her surname in 2009 by Lovepump United Records.[9] In 2009, she recorded a track with Vampire Weekend keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot vocalist Wes Miles on their Discovery album LP. The track is entitled "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend".[10] Animal Collective chose her to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties festival that they curated in 2011.[11] In 2011, she released a split 7-inch with Albert McCloud containing a song by McCloud entitled "Planetarium 2010" and her own song "Marichka".[12] She was a member of Avey Tare's project, Slasher Flicks, along with ex-Ponytail drummer Jeremy Hyman, and released the album Enter the Slasher House in 2014.[13][14]
In 2015, Deradoorian released her debut solo studio album, The Expanding Flower Planet, on Anticon.[15] In 2017, she released an EP titled Eternal Recurrence, which mixes obscure and ambient landscapes.[16] Her second full-length solo album, Find the Sun, was released on September 18, 2020, by record label Anti-.[17]
In 2022, Deradoorian and Russian musician Kate NV formed the duo Decisive Pink, releasing the 2023 album Ticket to Fame on Fire Records.[18]
Discography
Studio albums
- The Expanding Flower Planet (2015)
- Find the Sun (2020)
- Ticket to Fame (2023, as Decisive Pink with Kate NV)
- Ready for Heaven (2025)
Compilation albums
- Disembodied Improvisations Vol. 1 (2019)
EPs
- Mind Raft (2009)
- Eternal Recurrence (2017)
Singles
- "Marichka" b/w "Planetarium 2010" (2011) (split with Albert McCloud)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- "Mountainside" (2017)
Guest appearances
- An Angle - “We Can Breathe Under Alcohol”
- Discovery – "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" from LP (2009)
- The Roots – "A Peace of Light" from How I Got Over (2010)
- U2 – "Ordinary Love" from Songs of Innocence (2013)
- U2 – "The Troubles" from Songs of Innocence deluxe edition (2014)
- Flying Lotus – "Siren Song" from You're Dead! (2014)
- Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks – Enter the Slasher House (2014)
- Brandon Flowers – "Dreams Come True", "Can't Deny My Love", "Still Want You", "Between Me And You", and "Diggin' Up The Heart" from The Desired Effect (2015)
- Boots – "Aquaria" from Aquaria (2015)
- Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam – "1959" from I Had a Dream That You Were Mine (2016)
- Avey Tare – Eucalyptus (2017)
- Rostam – "Hold You" from Half-Light (2017)
- Boots – "Language" (2020)
References
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External links
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- Angel Deradoorian discography at Discogs
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- Living people
- 1986 births
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- American people of Armenian descent
- Musicians from Brooklyn
- American women singer-songwriters
- American women bass guitarists
- American rock bass guitarists
- 21st-century American bass guitarists
- Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
- Guitarists from New York (state)
- Dirty Projectors members
- 21st-century American singer-songwriters
- 21st-century American women singers
- 21st-century American women musicians
- Anticon artists
- Anti- (record label) artists
- People from Sacramento County, California