p H 1, Mndsgn and Audrey Nuna: AAPI Heritage Month Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

This year, NPR Music s Tiny Desk is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with a Tiny Desk (home) concert featuring performances from pH1, Mndsng and Audrey Nuna. These artists represent just a sliver of the cultural diversity that exists within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, and each is performing a Tiny Desk concert for the first time. Alex Ramos, May 20, 2022 KoreanAmerican rapper pH1 radiates much of the same visual warmth of his setting. It disperses around him, highlighting his bandmates, who are planted in the fringes of an intense blue backdrop. The contrast lends a sentimentality that s emphasized by the opening lines of his 2018 hit, Perhaps the setting a nod to his parents who, after immigrating to the United States, found stable work in a dry cleaning business makes the artist just a bit more wistful than usual. The song builds around its hook with cascading keys and airy guitars, insisting that hanging ou