Atlanta Musician Adron Readies New Album, Prepares For Move
Adron’s album “Water Music” will be released on Aug. 17.
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If you have caught City Lights’ weekend show, you’ve probably heard Atlanta musician Adron. Her song “Pyramids,” from her 2011 album “Organismo,” is our theme music. Needless to say, we are big fans here. Adron’s follow-up album, titled “Water Music,” is finally finished and will be out later this summer.
The music draws on a variety of influences, primarily Brazilian pop music from the 1960s, artists like Luiz Bonfá and Astrud Gilberto. But the young musician also admits a love for what she calls “very cheeseball adult contemporary.”
“I’m a ginormous Michael McDonald fan,” she says. She was also able to tour with Donald Fagen in 2017, which she calls “the craziest thing that ever happened to me.”
Some of the latter influence can be heard in one of the albums’ songs, “Your Habitat,” which she premiered on “City Lights.”
She describes the recording process for “Water Music” as having been a long, epic, ambitious studio project. She says that’s partly due to the attention to detail in the recording, but owes largely to the difficulties in getting it released.
“[It’s] just the nature of the beast nowadays,” she tells City Lights host Lois Reitzes. “An independent artist has to pull a lot of things out of a hat.”
To help summon those many things an artist needs to get their work into the world, she has turned to a crowdfunding campaign.
And just as she prepares to release the long-awaited album, she is also preparing to move to Los Angeles.
“I absolutely love Atlanta so much,” she says, “I’m always going to feel like I belong to it. I sometimes wonder if there’s much more I can do here because I feel like I’ve permeated my little scene pretty thoroughly. And I do get a feeling that when you leave Atlanta, Atlanta pays very close attention to your actions.”
Adron’s album “Water Music” will be released on Aug. 17, with an album release show (and final show in Atlanta) at Terminal West on Aug. 23.
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