Violinist, singer and songwriter Sudan Archives

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Sudan Archives has been making music for all her life. She grew up in Ohio, where she played violin in church and school bands. When she got her high school diploma, she headed out to Los Angeles to follow her dream of making music. Sudan Archives is a violinist who breaks new ground with what the instrument can do in pop music. She combines the instrument with her voice, her beatmaking and her songwriting, creating music that is truly mesmerizing. She joins Bullseye to talk about her music and new album Natural Brown Prom Queen. She also talks about her process for creating music and performing it live. Plus, Sudan dives into some of the violinists who inspire her.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.0	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:20.5	Sudan Archives is my first guest this week.
0:23.9	She's been making music all her life.
0:26.1	She grew up in Ohio where she played violin and sang in church and school dance.
0:31.4	Her stepdad was a label guy and he tried to make a pop duo out of Sudan and her twin
0:36.5	sister, but it didn't take.
0:38.8	Sudan needed to do her own thing to be an artist in her own right.
0:42.5	So when she got her high school diploma, she headed out to LA.
0:46.4	She started hanging out at a club called Low End Theory, home to beatmakers like flying
0:51.1	Lotus, Datalus, and no such thing.
0:54.9	It was there at Low End that she found her voice as an artist.
0:59.7	Sudan Archives is a violinist who, I mean, of course, breaks new ground with what that instrument
1:06.0	can do in pop music, but she's not just a violinist.
1:09.4	It's only one color from her palette, one arrow in her quiver.
1:13.4	When that fiddle combines with her voice, her beatmaking, her songwriting, Sudan Archives
1:18.3	makes mesmerizing music.
1:20.3	It's not only one of my favorite, never feeling lonely, only gliding, flying, always
1:25.3	being constantly reminded.
1:27.3	Time is running up, don't waste your luck.
1:30.3	Sucker, this is my life, don't miss that up.
1:35.3	This is my life, don't black the sun.
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