PaviElle’s unique blend of influences, styles, and experiences lends itself to a unique and diverse body of work, spanning music, art, storytelling, and theater.
FEAR NOT || 2014
2014’s Fear Not marked PaviElle’s return to recording after a five-year hiatus. Independently recorded and produced, the album represents a slice of PaviElle’s life experiences, good and bad. In Fear Not, PaviElle succeeds in combining the feel of Black soul music with her own unique voice and musical style.
RUNNIN’
SOVEREIGN || 2021
In 2020, Mr. George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis, where PaviElle is a resident. Prompted by the racial unrest in her hometown, and with the pandemic taking place, PaviElle started documenting what she and her community were going through. After being honored with a McKnight fellowship, PaviElle began writing and producing SOVEREIGN on the Maschine, using midi.
SOVEREIGN discusses the turmoil that PaviElle herself was going through at that time of unrest, and the introspective questions she asked herself regarding liberation and freedom for self and for Black, Indigenous, and POC folks. Regarding her truth. Regarding the aftermath of what’s happening in Minnesota, and how so many of us are hurting behind the continuous trauma happening here. With the uptick of State sanctioned violence toward black and POC people like Daunte Wright and Breonna Taylor. In SOVEREIGN, PaviElle speaks about the culture of white supremacy in America, and the country’s history of improper policing and abuse of power toward people in poverty.
CODE SWITCH
MORE TO LIFE
ANCESTORS SAID IT
SANDS OF TIME || 2022
In 2020, PaviElle was commissioned to write another symphony by community art supporters Bill and Susan Sands, in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. Sands of Time was premiered in June 2022 at the Ordway Center in Saint Paul, MN. PaviElle composed, wrote, orchestrated, and arranged Sands of Time on GarageBand, and Michi Wiancko transcribed the piece. It took 8 months to complete.
SOVEREIGN SUITE || 2023
The SOVEREIGN Suite carries the messages of 2021’s SOVEREIGN into an ambitious project focused on PaviElle’s vision of the future.
Parts two and three of SOVEREIGN are combined into The SOVEREIGN Suite, exploring themes of Black Liberation and Black Joy. Over 9 months, PaviElle composed, wrote, and performed the Suite on GarageBand, and the piece was transcribed by Michi Wiancko. The future PaviElle envisions in The SOVEREIGN Suite is a bright one, where Black people are able to reconnect, finding liberty, connection with the land, and reprieve from white supremacy.