Anand Wilder / Ziggy Moon

Anand Wilder’s reputation as a talented multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter emerged in the Brooklyn indie rock scene of the late 2000s, where he joined his bandmates in painting on the eclectic palette of synths, strings, and harmonies that defined Yeasayer’s acclaimed psychedelic worldbeat and swerving electro-pop experiments. He was at home writing and fronting big hits like Yeasayer’s “O.N.E.” and “Wait for the Summer,” but the spirit of community always pervaded his surprising collaborations, from the guest-star-studded recordings of the peculiar rock musical album, Break Line (2014), which Wilder composed with college friend Maxwell Kardon to his occasional production credits for fellow travelers like Suckers and Das Racist.

With I Don’t Know My Words, Wilder torques his multi-instrumentality away from electronica and global genre-hopping and makes it a lonely lockdown challenge. Aside from ambient documentary noise of family life and New York’s mysteriously pervasive rash of fireworks, he played every sound on the album, from a plucked cello on “Get More Than My Share” to the bowed acoustic guitars heard in “Sick Hotel,” which simulate a string section.

In oscillating textures of dulcimers, twelve-strings, and tumbling, song-serving drums, he arpeggiates, beats, and blasts out moments of elevated feeling from tedium and routine. “After some initial attempts at collaborating with outside musicians, I realized that I needed to have my hands on every aspect of recording my first solo effort. So much of the pleasure of making this album was reigniting my childhood passion for challenging myself to pick up any instrument.”

Ziggy Moon Karraa is a 21-year-old songwriter, arranger, and guitarist from Sherman Oaks, California.​ ​He is currently a student at Berklee, studying contemporary writing and​ ​production.​ ​Moon has been writing and recording his own music at home since he was 17. Now​ ​having studied at Berklee, he still makes his own music at home and at school, incorporating​ ​everything he learns at school into his music. His primary musical influences are Stevie​ ​Wonder, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tyler the Creator, and Michael Jackson.

​Moon released his first EP, FLOWRS, in 2021 and has released three new singles​ ​since then. He plans on releasing a short album in 2023, as well as playing his music wherever he can, with the wonderful people and musicians he’s met at home and at Berklee​.