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The First Ever Podcast

53. Kris Esfandiari (King Woman): On the Other Side of My Fear Was My Destiny

The First Ever Podcast

Jeremy Bolm

Music, Arts, Music Interviews

5.0532 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week Jeremy interviews Kris Esfandiari of King Woman
 
During this episode the two discuss Her first shows back, the geography of her projects, moving to Brooklyn, NY, finding secular music in a strict household as a kid, the influence DMX had on her, her first guitar and how quickly she started making songs, Luigis in Sacramento, intense stage fright, first recording experiences, collaborations, Ethel Cain, how she joined Whirr and toured with Title Fight, how a psychic told her about future projects, making music as therapy, how success being measured by numbers and not expression, the release of Celestial Blues, making the music video for Morning Star, our mutual love for Spiritual Cramp and so much more!

 

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First ever

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Pondes

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podcast

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First ever The first ever

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The first ever podcast.

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I am your host, Jeremy Baum. Hi, how are you? It's episode 53. And if you're new here, this is a show where I interview artists of all kinds about the first experiences in their art form that led them to where they are today. My guest is the ever talented,

0:58.0

ever awesome, Chris Isfondiari of Kingwoman, of miserable, of nightcrawler, of sugar

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high, of Dalmatian, obviously a very busy musician, very talented, and had the pleasure of hanging out, having a great conversation. So yeah, you're going to get a chance to listen to that in just a moment. Let's do business real quick. I have a Patreon. I record a know, I'm, I record a lot of these intros

1:29.4

or outros, and then I realize, like, oh, I didn't push the Patreon. If you're enjoying the

1:33.9

show and you would like to help support it, I would, you know, I would appreciate it.

1:39.6

Hit up patreon.com slash the first ever Patreon. And over there, you can, you know, ask questions to upcoming guests.

1:46.0

As like today, subscribers have the opportunity to listen to the bonus episode that goes

1:52.0

along with this conversation with Chris, where you'll hear her answer the questions that

1:58.6

were submitted from subscribers.

2:00.7

Pretty cool, right? And also,

2:03.6

you know, I do these radio episodes. You'll get an extra two of those a month. Plus, there's just a

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whole lot of other kind of content. There's a Discord channel where we all hang out at,

2:13.4

do some live Q&As. I'll be going on tour soon, so there'll be like tour journals, all sorts of stuff.

2:19.3

If that interests you, once again, hit up the Patreon.

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Moving on, let's talk about some of my wonderful, wonderful sponsors.

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Where's my coffee drinkers at?

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