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SUMMARY:Kelsey Lu
LOCATION:Botanique
DESCRIPTION:EN/\nIt’s been seven years since Kelsey Lu released their deb
 ut album Blood\, a baroque\, cello-led exorcism that introduced a singular
  voice moving between the sacred and the sensual.\n\nDue June 2026 via Dir
 ty Hit\, the 10-track album is Lu’s most fearless and fully realised wor
 k to date. Co-produced by Lu\, Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman and mixed by
  Oli Jacobs\, features contributions from Sampha\, Kamasi Washington\,Lady
  Jess and Kim Gordon. It is not a healing record. It is a reckoning. Acros
 s its ten songs\, Lu traces a landscape of transformation — where devoti
 on\, desire\, grief and transcendence collapse into one another.\n\n“A l
 ot has happened in the past seven years\, a lot of healing and growth\,”
  Lu says. “But this isn’t really a healing album. It’s more of a rec
 koning. It’s about facing the parts of myself I tried to move past\, and
  realizing they were still shaping everything. This album is me standing i
 n that truth instead of trying to transcend it.”\n\nIf Blood was an intr
 oduction - lush\, devotional\, orchestral - So Help Me God is an arrival. 
 Harder. Hungrier. Willing to sit in the dark.\n\nIn 2020\, during a reside
 ncy at Palm Heights\,\, Lu set up a studio on the first day\, ready to beg
 in again. When they reached for the only cello they had ever owned for the
  past 20 years\, it cracked in their hands.\n\n“It felt really symbolic
 \,” they recall. “I went into a deep mourning state. It holds memories
 . It holds energy. And suddenly\, that was gone.”\n\nMusic became surviv
 al.\n\n“I documented every sunrise and every sunset\,” Lu says. “It 
 was a way to cope with whatever the fuck was going on. My instinctual driv
 e and method of survival was to turn to nature and the only other thing I'
 ve ever known to keep me alive\, music."\n\nWhat followed were years of mo
 vement - London\, upstate New York\, Indonesia\, Los Angeles - and a spiri
 tual deep dive through reiki\, dreamwork\, plant medicine\, breathwork and
  water cleansing ceremonies. Relationships dissolved and reformed. Faith c
 ollapsed and reassembled in new shapes. They stepped away from the major l
 abel system. Isolation became both a wound and teacher.\n\n“Reckoning wi
 th the fact that I’ve felt isolated and alone for most of my life\,” L
 u reflects. “Making this record has been crawling out of that well.”\n
 \nIn Los Angeles\, Lu connected with Rothman before later expanding the co
 llaboration with Antonoff. Initially hesitant after past experiences with 
 high-profile male producers\, Lu found something different here: play.\n\n
 “I knew it was right when I was under the hood of the piano with a paint
 brush on the strings and he was at the drums with another paintbrush\,” 
 Lu says. “It was in that moment when I realized how much I missed that k
 ind of connection - playtime and collaboration.”\n\nThe project also unf
 olds visually through a collaborative sequence of short films inspired by 
 So Help Me God. The album is accompanied by a short film created in collab
 oration with BAFTA-award-winning director Savanah Leaf\, starring French a
 ctor Garance Marillier with official photography by Yuma Al-Arashi. Togeth
 er\, the record and film form a single narrative work\, reinforcing Lu’s
  position at the intersection of music\, fine art and culture.\n\n“I dis
 appeared for a while\, even from myself\,” Lu says. “There was a lot o
 f grieving. But on the other side of that\, I found people again. I found 
 play again.”\n\nSo Help Me God does not offer easy answers. It offers so
 mething braver: surrender. It begins in fracture and moves toward somethin
 g harder won: connection.\n\nBoletos: https://ra.co/events/2463289
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