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Brain Freeze Featuring Raveena
February 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
$10
ASUCD Entertainment Council presents: “Brain Freeze”, our Annual Winter Concert partnering with Mondavi Center. Previously named “Petrichor”, “Brain Freeze”, will continue to showcase popular and established musical artists as well as emerging artists and reunited groups for years to come.This event promotes mindfulness, relaxation, and an opportunity to break from everyday monotony. We know that Winter Quarter can be stressful, so we hope this live music experience can provide the “brain-freeze” we might all need….
We invite you to come and vibe with Raveena LIVE. Ravenna is “inspired by artists like Sade, Corinne Bailey Rae, Minnie Riperton, and Indian singer Asha Puthli, Raveena is a highly creative, dynamic, and spiritual artist who aims to build fully-realized worlds within each of her projects: conceptual experimentations in sound, threaded together by stories of healing and self-realization meant to experience from start to finish”
About Raveena:
Raveena’s latest offering, Asha’s Awakening, takes listeners on an epic deep dive into Indian culture—an endeavor that has been in the works for three years. An homage to her heritage as a first-generation descendant of genocide survivors and Reiki healers, the album incorporates influences from Bollywood and celebrated Indian artists like R.D. Burman and Asha Bhosle, as well as Western music—specifically R&B, rock and soul— and melds the genres prevalent throughout Raveena’s catalog into one cohesive body of work.
The album also marries eras in time, fusing together a contemporary take on sounds influenced by Alice Coltrane and Asha Puthli from the 60s and 70s with those of Timbaland, Missy Elliott, M.I.A. and Jai Paul from the early 2000s. It is a labor of love that represents her evolution as an artist. Raveena remarks, “I think it’s really fun putting people in uncomfortable positions to receive new sides of you. The human experience is so vast.”
For Raveena, music is meant to be a “complete expression of the self.” It’s a truth she’s leaned on through a whirlwind couple of years, which saw a potent flurry of output and a pointed ascent into the conversation with her critically-acclaimed 2019 debut full-length, Lucid, and 2020 follow-up, Moonstone EP.
Come early to enjoy pre-show DJ vibes in the lobby.
Doors open at 5:30 so make sure you get there on time to shop all of the amazing vendors!
