Projects
The Lost & Found Live Experience
The Lost & Found Live Experience is a live immersive experience of Threadgill’s memoir Lost & Found: Finding The Power In Your Voice. Journeying from the Lower East Side to college, motherhood, and beyond, The Live Experience fuses music, storytelling, and electronic textures - creating an unforgettable night of sound and words! This project can be presented as a duo or expanded to a full six piece ensemble, including dance.
Pyeng Threadgill, (vocals, storytelling, keys) , Alexis Caudrado, (bass, electronics), Alicyn Yaffee, (electric guitar), Rogerio Boccato, (drums & percussion), and Angie Pittman, (dance).
Pyeng Threadgill & The Sixth Sense
From motherhood to travel, from ancestry to the body— this project examines the visceral and ephemeral experiences of the voice, for the body and for oneself in the world, as both a spiritual and political act. Incorporating concepts of Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening, these concerts aim to bring audiences closer to themselves and our shared humanity.
Pyeng Threadgill, (vocals & keys),Elias Meister (guitar),Allison Miller(drums),Ksenia Vasileka(bass) andAmma Whatt(vocals).
The Porch Sessions
The Porch Sessions are often but not exclusively, intimate concerts created as a way for audiences to slow down and reconnect with themselves and one another through music. These performances are often offered in non-traditional spaces such as homes, bookstores, online, or outdoors to remind people of the sacred within the secular. Designed as explorational and restorative sets for voice and guitar, you will often hear musical likeness to artists such as Feist, Abbey Lincoln and Band of Gypsies.
Pyeng Threadgill (voice), Elias Meister (electric guitar).
Buy the book or audiobook of Lost & Found
The Songlines Project
The Songlines Project is a 3-7 piece group which developed from the song cycle entitled “Songlines: Singing The Land”. Named after the Aboriginal concept in which First Nations people of Australia sing, dance and create art as a form of mapping the landscape. In its full presentation this project features 4 vocalists, keyboard, 2 guitarists and drums/percussion. These compositions explore the foundational contributions of African and Indigenous people upon sustainability movements and the ways in which our inner physical body, or environment, is impacted by the outer environment.
“On & On”
Pyeng Threadgill (vocals/keyboard/composition), Tyler Wood (B3), and Jan Van Voorst Van Beest (drums).
Of The Air Trio
The Of The Air Trio is a trio featuring voice, guitar and drums. This project began after being invited to perform at the Brooklyn Zen Center in 2011. Built upon a process of re-examining my musical compositions through improvisation, expansion and contraction. Using paired down instrumentation each player seeks to magnify and at the same time distill the music through the nuance and texture of their individual voice/instrument.
“An Orbit of Skirts”
Pyeng Threadgill (vocals/composition), Evan Pazner (drums) and John Shannon (guitar).
Rabbit’s Foot
Rabbit’s Foot is a trio founded by myself, Brandon Terzic (Alsarah & The Nubatones) on oud and ngoni and Tim Keiper (David Byrne American Utopia, Vieux Farka Toure, Cyro Baptista) on calabash. Named for the magical and mythological talisman, this project is a call and response between the deserts of Morocco, West Africa and the Mississippi Delta. Rabbit’s Foot relies on weaving rhythms and improvisation to support each song’s story.
“Trav’lin All Alone”
Pyeng Threadgill (vocals), Brandon Terzic (oud/ngoni) and Tim Keiper (calabash).
Solo Albums
Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song
In Pyeng’s fourth solo album and multimedia project entitled "Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song", Ms. Threadgill shines a light on hair, adornment, and ancestry, and the power, pleasure and pain therein.
Portholes To A Love & Other Short Stories
Portholes To A Love & Other Short Stories is a collection of compositions based on short stories by well renowned authors. From Isabel Allende to Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri to Bruno Schulz, these songs explore the stretches of reality and magic, humanity and nature.
Of The Air
Of The Air is the first recorded solo album of Ms Threadgill’s original songwriting. It features two cover songs. The first is the acclaimed hit “Close To Me” by The Cure and the second cover is Fats Waller’s classic “Jitterbug Waltz” with original verses by Pyeng and choruses by the late Abbey Lincoln.
Sweet Home, The Music of Robert Johnson
Pyeng Threadgill’s debut album is an ode to the King of the Blues, guitarist and composer, Robert Johnson. Released in 2004, this album features a large cast of performers who travel from Blues to Jazz, and Ring Shouts to Reggae.
Compilations
Crystal Top Music Presents
A compilation cd of up and coming artists in New York City during the early to mid 2000s. Pyeng Threadgill offers a soulful cover of Bill Wither’s song “Can We Pretend?”
Midnight Soul 3
Midnight Soul is a collection of the finest neo-soul, nu-jazz, downtempo beats and mellow house. Volume 3 is mixed by San Francisco legend, Tom Thump. Listen to Threadgill’s rendition of “Close To Me” as the finale on side 2.
Got The Impeach Bush/Cheney Blues
This compilation CD presented by indie Blues label, Random Chance Records, delivers a wide range of protest songs for the Jazz and Blues lover. Pyeng Threadgill is featured on track #2.
Modern Sleeping
The brainchild of producer Cousin Jacob, this album has “a love of the intangible, a feeling for violent contrasts and the terrifying phenomena of nature and strange human physiognomies..." Pyeng appears on the tracks Losing Sleep, The Poor Man’s You, and Half Asleep.