Ishtar Sr. on SoundBetter

Experienced in a variety of genres and art mediums, I see the bigger picture. I've built up over a decade of experience as a producer, vocalist, session musician, mix/master engineer, recorder, visual artist, and live sound designer - whether the finished product landed in musical projects, gallery installations, or film.

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Ishtar Sr. is the Afrofuturistic art pop project of Philadelphia vocalist-producer Savan DePaul. DePaul also makes hip hop music under her given name as well as her noise/free improv persona Asphalt Savannahs; in addition she participates in numerous collaborative acts: psychedelic art folk jam band The Lanternflies, Free Spirits (with fellow Philly rapper D’NAE), space rap operatic duo Sagan Theory (with New York beatmaker Mimar Sinan), lo-fi afropunk collaboration Party In The Crossfire (with Massachusetts bedroom pop artist Mynameisblueskye), and Dolphin Point Skydivers (with Australian electronic producer Myst Mach) as well as being a member of the Beartooth Collective. She has released music independently as well as through Tiergarten Records, Astro Nautico, and Grimalkin Records (the latter of which she is a former vice chairwoman of).

Press
featured in Wire Magazine as a part of Grimalkin Fest (November 2022)
Audrey Lockie's review of debut "Divine Ecdysis" in SLUG MAG
featured several times in XPN’s The Key (2018-2022)
featured on Bandcamp (with project collaborator Madam Data):
“With their new collaborative album Slug/Savior, DePaul and Madam Data have combined their cosmic forces to create a record worthy of Braxton’s minimalist, algebraic compositions, while remaining rooted in dark, Antipop Consortium-styled, Def Jux-ian poeticisms.”

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