With its distinctive African tones and scales filtered through the electronic looping blender in her basement studio, the debut album Athena turned some influential heads back home.
The ocean of bodies in the YouTube video stretches from Brittney Parks’ long red vinyl boots to the beer and merch tents. It’s hard to recall another artist owning a Glastonbury stage with just a violin, bass and electronic beat, let alone one dressed like a combat avatar from the planet Fire-Engine, all gleaming buckles and straps with a bow quiver on her back.
“I kind of like that,” chuckles the American singer-fiddler who goes by the battle name of Sudan Archives. “I feel like on stage when I have my bow behind my back, I feel like I’m a warrior sometimes. I didn’t really plan that out or think about it. It just kind of happened. But in my head, I feel like I’m an anime character.
“Our stepdad at the time, who managed us, he was trying to make us into this pop duo. And I just felt like that wasn’t me. I didn’t want to be this mainstream artist. I felt like I just wanted to create music that felt good to me instead of, like, let’s make popular music because that’s what’s gonna make you famous.Natural Brown Prom QueenNBPQ
, tells that backstory. “Momma knocked on the door, it go rat-a-tat-tat / She said, My boyfriend think you can be a star… [But] I’m not average, average, average, average,” goes the chorus. At 19, she packed her violin and left home for Los Angeles in search of a deeper vein of inspiration.“A lot of people don’t know, but back in the day, I used to go by Sudan Moon,” she says.
The first compositions under her new name were in thrall to newfound heroes such as Asim Gorashi, the Sudanese-born whistler, oud and violin player resident in Australia these last 20 years. In 2017, Parks visited Accra, Ghana to make videos for the first couple of Sudan Archives tracks,
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