TRISHES: Artistic Contradictions and Irreverence

L.A.-based multidisciplinary artist TRISHES (aka Trish Hosein) is ready to lead you on a journey of self-inquiry through her music, her art, and especially her irreverent passion for humanity. With live looping, visual art, and spoken word, she celebrates the human spirit by spotlighting its dark, painful, confusing, and uncomfortable corners.

Lending her unique voice as an immigrant, artist, and activist to the political sphere, she worked on campaigns for Crooked Media and the Progressive Turnout Project. She rolled up her sleeves for Bernie Sanders in 2020. She’s written explosive political commentary for Talkhouse, Valley Doll Magazine, and Brown Girl Magazine. In the latter, she lamented that the struggle of contradiction “is a thread woven through the lives of immigrants, children of immigrants and people of color. We are living in a society that was not created for us.”

“The Id” is a multimedia experience more than an album. It is an art piece, a catharsis, a message, and a call to action. In her music, TRISHES underscores iconoclast lyrics with hip-hop beats and pop hooks. She throws musical tantrums reminiscent of and influenced by Bjork, FKA Twigs, Lana Del Rey, Regina Spektor, and St. Vincent. “I believe that all societal and global conflict begins from individual internal turmoil and that examining those inner struggles is an essential part of affecting change.”

True to its intent, the album reinforces its musical content with shades and tones of sight and sound. It includes 10 original art pieces in her signature Sharpie stippling style; it also includes three music videos, shot in LA, SLC, and Nabi Musa. Where “Instant Gratification” is her most unrestrained melodic fit, “Animal” is her thesis statement and a plea to her maker as she questions humanity’s animalistic and spiritual desires. She puts on blast the microaggressions and discrimination she experienced growing up as a brown girl in America in “Venom”. The dangerous anonymity of war paint and social media is the subject of “Big Sunglasses.” And her track “Mine Would Be You” journeys from selfishness to regret and reflection.

“Police brutality, gun violence, nationalism, colonialism, capitalism – all of it comes down to this thing,” TRISHES reminds us, “this suppression of fear and shame that forms this dark ball in the core of us.”

“If we refuse to let it out, it disguises itself so much so that when it finally emerges we can’t recognize it. This thing: the Id.”

The Id drops 10/22 on Spotify and iTunes. Check out more of the multidisciplinary TRISHES at http://www.trishes.com and http://www.instagram.com/trishesmusic.