{"id":32681,"date":"2026-04-13T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=32681"},"modified":"2026-04-13T13:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:07:29","slug":"dorian-wood-previews-upcoming-lp-canto-de-todes-with-second-single-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=32681","title":{"rendered":"Dorian Wood previews upcoming LP, <em>Canto de Todes<\/em>, with second single &#8216;Honey&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32683\" src=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dorian-Wood-Honey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, Los Angeles-based anti-disciplinary artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dorianwood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dorian Wood<\/a> announced her new album <em>Canto de Todes<\/em>, introducing a project grounded in ideas of community, ancestry, and music as a force for collective transformation. Long recognized for work that pushes against convention and challenges structures of marginalisation, Wood brings together her multidisciplinary practice into a record that blends chamber classical, folk, torch song, and experimental textures, all anchored by her powerful voice. Alongside the album announcement, she had shared a first glimpse with the utterly stunning and moving lead single single &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=32531\">Girasoles<\/a>&#8216;. As we near the album release on May 1st via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newamrecords.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Amsterdam Records<\/a>, Wood is offering a second preview, &#8216;Honey&#8217;. Originally released on her 2021 album <em>REACTOR<\/em>, the track was reimagined for cello quartet, guitar, and voice, taking on a renewed urgency within the context of <em>Canto de Todes<\/em>. The song is a plea for an end to what Wood describes as \u201cwhite indifference,\u201d as she explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThis piece connects with Canto de Todes as a way of promoting societal change through joyful transgression. In each of us is a radical that can do something spectacular, to end the waves of oppression that we have normalized for so long that continue to hurt people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Honey&#8217; comes with a live accompanying video and you can watch it below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBHj48RnBso?si=s8KIdHT8Kf3ELABI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Los Angeles-based anti-disciplinary artist Dorian Wood announced her new album Canto de Todes, introducing a project grounded in ideas of community, ancestry, and music as a force for collective transformation. 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