Filk, Nerdcore, Nerd Folk, etc. I love it all. Let's share some reccs and help each other find what they'd like.
Star Pilot
Star Pilot is a Sci Fi meets R&B project by Kielen King. His music is great but he is one of the more obscure artists I follow. I caught him performing live as Star Pilot's Array at the Rose City Comic Con kick-off party. He had great stage presence and I was amazed by how polished he was live. I was told by the organizers that he only very rarely performs live, and a lack of youtube results backs that up. That makes the polish all the more impressive.
At the time, I couldn't find his tracks outside of his website. I wanted to share his tracks around, but there wasn't an easy way to do so. He's either joined Spotify since then, or for some screwy reason he wasn't coming up in searches.
His particular genre fusion is pretty unique, trending more towards R&B and noir elements than any other nerd artist I've heard of. The albums make great listens, but it can be a bit hard to pick out individual songs for a playlist. Spoken conversation intros feature heavily and makes it harder for the songs to stand on their own. I love his style and hope to hear more from him soon. It sounds like he is continuing to work on the project.
Subjects and themes: Being a badass star pilot fighting enemies, bounty hunting and noir-flavored romantic misadventures.
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His albums are meant to be listened to as a set, so you can follow his journey. I've pulled a few tracks so you can get a feel for him:
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