Oropendola

Joanna Schubert, the Brooklyn-based singer-keyboardist-composer-arranger behind Oropendola, creates kaleidoscopic chamber pop filled to the brim with energy and emotion. Her songs often sound like a wink but hit like a gut punch, pendulum-swinging from playfulness to earnestness with deft, technicolor brushstrokes. Her debut full-length album, Waiting for the Sky to Speak - recorded and co-produced with Zubin Hensler (Half Waif, Hannah Epperson) - will be released in March 2023 with Spirit House Records and Wilbur & Moore Records. It is an imaginative and colorful chimera of a collection peppered with the raw theatricality of Kate Bush and FKA Twigs; the off-kilter humor of Miranda July; the surrealism of Alice in Wonderland; and the melodic core of Joanna’s childhood soundtrack (90s pop, jazz standards, and the Beatles). Joanna regularly collaborates with other artists and has been a touring member of Half Waif and Barrie and sung with musicians such as Samir Langus and Elizabeth & the Catapult. She currently plays in Brooklyn bands Nicomo and beccs. "[Oropendola] is joining an exciting group of multidisciplinary artists who refuse to adhere to standards of genre or form... [she] cannot be contained to one box or descriptor." - HighClouds music blog