“silhouette” is a melancholy-soaked rumination on self, history, and trauma from Pastel
LA-based visual artist and musician Gabriel Brenner, aka Pastel, unveils “silhouette” taken from new EP absent, just dust.
Having released the Bone-Weary EP last year via Very Jazzed, Pastel has made a seismic change in his songwriting, moving from a soul and R&B focus to more ambient melodies.
“silhouette" is a cloudy conversation, an endless rainy Tuesday, a hazy memory. It is a deeply personal track that focuses on loss, specifically the absence of Native people in historical narratives. Brenner (who is part Pima part Cherokee) feels keenly the weight of generational trauma within the Native community and how historical and modern day injustices were not being addressed by either side of his familly. "silhouette” and more widely absent, just dust is his way of constructing a language around this loss. A noble pursuit indeed.
“Silhouette” is out now.
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