What it was like
The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. May 31st. Elmiene — the British soul singer whose voice arrives like something from a different decade and lands fully in this one — bringing the Sounds for Someone Tour to the Wiltern, which is the venue that the Koreatown mid-size room was invented for.
Elmiene's work operates in the territory where R&B and neo-soul and something older and harder to name all converge. The voice is the thing. The production is built around the voice, which means live, in a room with the Wiltern's acoustic properties and sightlines, the Sounds for Someone material is going to do something that the recording can only point at.
Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 31st. The Wiltern is the perfectly sized room for the artist and the audience already knows it — these shows go before the second announcement cycle. Get your ticket before the floor goes quiet and the reserved seats follow. Elmiene live is the experience the album was rehearsing for.