Ladybugs IN the Spotlight: Angela Sheik

Angela Sheik

Hailing from: Wilmington, DE
Genre: Electronic pop
RIYL: tUnE-yArDs, Postal Service, Portishead, Ennio Morricone
Performing: Friday, July 21st from 7:30pm-8:15pm at the baby grand

Despite being a resident of our own downtown, it’s been quite some time since the city was blessed with Angela Sheik’s musical presence, as she essentially took 2016 off to concentrate on writing, producing and licensing her work for movies, TV and retail. Which is all well and good for her, but frankly, we missed her dearly. So it’s utterly thankful that the deprived masses of her home base will be privy to her Friday night Ladybug performance (where she will team up with the equally talented and like-minded I Am Snow Angel*). Her multi-instrumental ability stands paramount with her process, which is 90% of the joy when taking in one of her vigorous and agile live compositions. Embodied from ingredients that are at once organically derived nutrition and processed guilty pleasure, Angela Sheik’s critically acclaimed style—a forging of samples looped and manipulated on-the-fly, and subsumed in a confident alchemy of virtually any instrument or object, paired with her own true and mellifluous vocal delivery that usually gets the same treatment—emits in a swooning, miasmic pour like lusty smoke from an unfulfilled fire saturating a closed room. Eventually it occupies every inch, and with nowhere to go as it builds from a tiny spark, it implodes and consumes everything within, yielding the listener a rewarding scar for their trouble that doubles as a badge of pride. Entwining a vintage jazz and vocal style with innovative novelty and studiously cultivated techniques, Sheik ropes in your pain and spins out only awesome velvet bliss. Did we mention that we miss her?  Welcome home, Angela.

*While both are appearing together at Ladybug 2017 we feel that each deserves their own piece. Stay tuned for I Am Snow Angel tomorrow on inWilmDE.com!

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Vids
2011 BOSS National Loop Championship
Bring It On (Official Video)
That Other Girl (performance video)

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