Armed with several cups of coffee and a handbag filled with muffins, she threw down an ink-splattered blanket and settled in for an afternoon of blue skies and crashing waves at Baker Beach in San Francisco with her friend Olivia Lee of the band There's Talk. The 23-year-old singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist said she has spent nearly as much time on the road in the past few weeks as she did at the post office, packaging CDs and LPs and sending them out to the fans that helped fund the project via Kickstarter - an experience she's not eager to repeat. Produced by John Vanderslice and recorded entirely on 2-inch tape at his analog Tiny Telephone Studio in the Mission District, "Television" is an exquisite, multi-layered album that is garnering serious word-of-mouth buzz and drawing attention from radio programmers across the country. Aaron Axelsen, music director of San Francisco's influential Live 105, was one of the first major DJs to get behind Doe Eye, debuting the 2011 single "I Hate You" on his Sunday night "Soundcheck" program. [...] it was Axelsen's support that drew Qudus back to her native California three years ago. Qudus spent a year living on her own in San Francisco before the reality of having to support herself with a music career and a broken heart sent her back to her parents' home in Union City, late in 2012. "Moving back home, into your old childhood bedroom is super weird," she said, squinting in the horizon. Qudus said her parents never listened to Western music so her primary education came from pinching a Selena tape from her sister and listening to her brother's Puff Daddy and Snoop Dogg CDs. First City Festival.
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