Katy & The Null Sets + Isabeau Waia’u Walker

Portland OR Singer of foamboy Katy & the Null Sets formal debut brings vulnerable, biting lyricism interweaved with uniquely melodic, song structures that borrow from bossa nova, aughts indie rock and modern Americana.

 

Isabeau Waia’u-Walker, at heart, is a storyteller and songsmith who unites vulnerable transparency with hypnotic melodies and harmonies that will remain in your mind long after the music has stopped playing. She is a breathtaking embodiment of potent paradox; her sound dubbed “bright gloom”, yet another nod to the dualities her music carries and communicates song by song. Hailing from the Hawaiian islands with its deep indigenous heart and steeped in the beautiful bustling expressions of Portland and the Northwest, she lives and creates in the tensions of cultures, race, and language, and the product is, and always has been, a type of tender fortress in a world of harsh realities.