Ṭaüs | Sun God Ra + The Single Years
Lead Single | “Sun God Ra” - Out May 24
The Single Years LP - Out May 31
Sun God Ra | Single Art | Credit: Delaram Pourabdi
Out May 24
Sun God Ra (lead single) | Download
Sun God Ra (out May 24), produced by Max Hershenow (Miya Folick, Carly Rae Jepsen, MS MR), is the lead single off of The Single Years - Ṭaüs’ second full length record of 2023. The track (like the LP) finds the narrator surrounded by lush synths and driving rhythms - embracing a more expansive future, even from the depths of a dream-like dysphoric state. Like the LP, Sun God Ra is an episodic prelude to Arranged Marriage LP and is an introduction to the The Single Years. TSY, which will be released May 31, is “a tomb” to bury, honor and celebrate music made in the years prior to Ṭaüs’ gender transition.
The Single Years (LP) | Album Art | Credit: Delaram Pourabdi
Out May 31
Single Years LP | Download
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Bio
Ṭaüs طاووس is the debut solo music project of transdisciplinary artist Ṭaüs Jafar. Without being tethered to medium or genre, Ṭaüs’ creative output is bold, raw, and confidently vulnerable. Their work in music explores openings into ecstatic state and poetic eroticism through the lens of queer liminality. The resulting sound is a distillation of the eclectic cultural, geographical, and identity experiences of a trans child of the Arab diaspora.
Ṭaüs’ upcoming full length, The Single Years, is the prelude to his debut LP, Arranged Marriage. The Single Years is “a tomb” to bury, honor and celebrate music made in the years prior to Ṭaüs’ gender transition.Reflecting this, the record fluctuates between dream-like visions of expansion and strange entanglements caused by intrapersonal confusion. Like AMLP, the prelude offers a sound marked by experiments in genre fusion.
Ṭaüs’ debut is being received warmly by curators - with singles featured on KCRW, Apple’s “New Indie” and Spotify official playlists as well as at #3 and #4 of VEVO’s Incoming Indie and Alternative lists. Immediately breaking into broader culture, his songs have seen features on HBO Max’s Search Party, Sex Lives of College Girls, and On My Block Netflix spinoff, Freeridge.
I Dissolve - Music Video
“i dissolve” is an expository piece by musician, producer, and transdisciplinary artist Ṭaüs. This multidisciplinary collection combines personal essay, song, and video in a candid account of waking up to gender dysphoria and the road to healing. This body of work sits alongside Ṭaüs’ second full-length LP of 2023, and is “a tomb” to bury, honor and celebrate music made in the years prior to his gender transition. Ṭaüs Jafar (طاووس) is a transdisciplinary artist who specializes in sound and sensual-perceptual acuity. His multimodal practice centers explorations into ecstatic state and poetic eroticism through the lens of queer liminality. His ongoing research exploration investigates the potential for building intentional peace-affirming experiences and processes into the spatial and socio-cultural fabric of cities. Ṭaüs has a B.A. Hons. in Government from Harvard University, and received a Presidential Merit Scholarship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design,
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