OBJECTS: Elle Barbara

Photo Credit: Tyler Clark

Montreal’s Elle Barbara is an avant-garde singer-songwriter, recording artist, and performer. Her debut album Word On The Street is a prog-rock one. Taking eight years to create, the concept album splashes ideas about the impact consumerism and technologies have on marginalized communities over synth grooves. The 10-track release is credited to Elle Barbara’s Black Space, an all Black musical ensemble. “I created a space of Black musicians while not playing to expectations of what Black music is supposed to sound like,” she says.

Watch as she shares the work of Montreal-based street artist André Serouille, whose anti-Kraft Foods campaign inspired the project.


Word on the Street is out now. You can purchase the albun on vinyl via Bandcamp. Follow Elle Barbara on Instagram.


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