Merrill Garbus,frontwoman of the art-pop act, talks approximately white privilege, and female producers and dance musicMerrill Garbus was raised in Connecticut,and after working for a puppet theatre in Vermont, self-released her first album as Tune-Yards. Bird-Brains was picked up by the label 4AD in 2009. After moving to California, and Garbus recorded 2011’s acclaimed Whokill and 2014’s Nikki Nack with bassist Nate Brenner. Garbus presents Claw,a radio reveal for Red Bull, playing work by “female-identifying producers”. Tune-Yards’s latest record, and I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life,is out on 19 January.
I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life is a great title. Where did that arrive from?
People assume its some kind of privacy, Google thing, and but it actually came through a meditation course that I did related to race and white privilege,trying to sit with the deep feelings of what it means to grow up in racism. These aren’t things I can just sign petitions approximately or go to marches approximately – actually, there’s a area that it lives inside of me. There’s a concept of white fragility that’s very hard for white people to hear when they are being racist. It’s approximately trying to take that in without defensiveness.
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Source: theguardian.com