Racer Session #555 | Lillian Minke Tahar | Sunday December 4th, 2022

Greetings Racers!

It’s time for our last Racer Session of the year, before we blast off into the Holiday Show and then hunker down until 2023. We’re excited that Lillian Minke Tahar could join us for this final session, this Sunday December 4th at 7pm!

Lillian Minke Tahar is a singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist force of nature hailing from the Pacific Northwest. Impossible to pin down to a genre, her music is deeply potent concoction of imagery, story-telling, swirling keys and hard-knocking drums. Lily is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts, where she studied drums and composition, and has ventured up and down the Pacific coastline creating homes and sharing her music. Previous projects include Scorpio & The Hunter and Reject Modernity.

Keep reading for some words from Lily on what to expect this Sunday, and her plans for the jam session!

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“The Racer Sessions have been a part of my musical life in Seattle for over a decade and I’m beyond honored to have been invited to participate with the Table & Chairs community.

For this session I would like to share a tender new project whose working title is Alpenrose Princexxx, a collection of songs I began writing this fall. They are inspired by the surreal beauty and power of the Cascade Mountains, stalwart yet constantly changing, and a whirlwind love affair with a migrant worker. I feel the biggest struggle of this age is reckoning with the frailty of things we as humans always assumed eternal. Seasons, the forest. I hope to provide some soothing songs of longing and acceptance that weave a thread between permanence and impermanence.

As always, a Lily Tahar show is a safe space to cry. If you know you know, if you don’t then come find out December 4th.

My set features heavily the use of an MPC Live sampler. I am experimenting with creating patches and drum programs that are easily accessible to shredders and “non-musicians” alike. For the jam session, I hope you mess around with it! I would also like to experiment with a workflow that allows for real-time “live sampling” of the session.

Tenderly,

Lily <3”