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9/23/05
Rosin Coven
Barbez
Zegnotronic Rocket Society
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St
Www.12galaxies.com
9:00 pm
$10
ROSIN COVEN
"Imagine, if you will, the raw sexiness of cabaret complemented by moth-eaten aesthetic flourishes -- the operatic purring of a lead chanteuse named Midnight Rose, a gloomy bass jokily overlaid with a whiny vibraphone, and the ominous enchantment of commedia dell'arte puppetry. Naturally, we're describing Rosin Coven, the self-titled "World's Premiere Pagan Lounge Ensemble," the kind of act that has genre dogmatists scratching their heads. An umpteen-piece band full of pale-faced, velvet-clad cool cats playing everything from cello and contrabass to accordion, the group falls on a continuum between Rocky Horror camp and medieval danse macabre. The members of Rosin Coven, a Berkeley-based troupe with a vigorous following, look and sound like well-traveled carnies with formidable heaps of classical training; the roguish ensemble is even easy on the eyes."
- SF Weekly
Www.rosincoven.com
BARBEZ
"As for Barbez's "Strange", wow, I'm not even ready to talk about it yet. One wants to say "Lynchian." The first thing you'll notice is the voice, that otherwordly and wonderfully overstated quality like Antony and the Johnsons, and as with Antony, I'm stuck in the "you just gotta hear this" phase. According to their one-sheet, they're a multi-culti ensemble named for an equally polyglot neighborhood in Paris. Their membership includes a theremin virtuoso, a Russian dancer, and a modified Palm Pilot player. Bob Moog wears a Barbez t-shirt through much of the documentary about him. The operatic peaks are chilling and sublime, a little frightening as well. I feel as if this music may be doing unnatural things in my brain without me realizing it, like acid that takes too long to kick in - you keep eating more and suddenly, you're a gibbering lunatic." -Moistworks
Www.barbez.com
ZEGNOTRONIC ROCKET SOCIETY
"After kidnapping Sauguet, Auric, Poulenc, Cocteau, and Django Reinhardt, the ZRS have retreated to the outer edges of the galaxy.... Through ingeneous manipulation and torture devices and many baguettes - ZRS learned the musical secrets of Parisian swing in the 1930's.... It has been decided by the council that NOW is time to re-enter the Earth's atmopsphere and bestow their musical and artistic findings on the glorious Earth masses...."
Www.myspace.com/zegnotronicrocketsociety
www.angelfire.com/jazz/zrs/
Rosin Coven
Barbez
Zegnotronic Rocket Society
@ 12 Galaxies
2565 Mission St
Www.12galaxies.com
9:00 pm
$10
ROSIN COVEN
"Imagine, if you will, the raw sexiness of cabaret complemented by moth-eaten aesthetic flourishes -- the operatic purring of a lead chanteuse named Midnight Rose, a gloomy bass jokily overlaid with a whiny vibraphone, and the ominous enchantment of commedia dell'arte puppetry. Naturally, we're describing Rosin Coven, the self-titled "World's Premiere Pagan Lounge Ensemble," the kind of act that has genre dogmatists scratching their heads. An umpteen-piece band full of pale-faced, velvet-clad cool cats playing everything from cello and contrabass to accordion, the group falls on a continuum between Rocky Horror camp and medieval danse macabre. The members of Rosin Coven, a Berkeley-based troupe with a vigorous following, look and sound like well-traveled carnies with formidable heaps of classical training; the roguish ensemble is even easy on the eyes."
- SF Weekly
Www.rosincoven.com
BARBEZ
"As for Barbez's "Strange", wow, I'm not even ready to talk about it yet. One wants to say "Lynchian." The first thing you'll notice is the voice, that otherwordly and wonderfully overstated quality like Antony and the Johnsons, and as with Antony, I'm stuck in the "you just gotta hear this" phase. According to their one-sheet, they're a multi-culti ensemble named for an equally polyglot neighborhood in Paris. Their membership includes a theremin virtuoso, a Russian dancer, and a modified Palm Pilot player. Bob Moog wears a Barbez t-shirt through much of the documentary about him. The operatic peaks are chilling and sublime, a little frightening as well. I feel as if this music may be doing unnatural things in my brain without me realizing it, like acid that takes too long to kick in - you keep eating more and suddenly, you're a gibbering lunatic." -Moistworks
Www.barbez.com
ZEGNOTRONIC ROCKET SOCIETY
"After kidnapping Sauguet, Auric, Poulenc, Cocteau, and Django Reinhardt, the ZRS have retreated to the outer edges of the galaxy.... Through ingeneous manipulation and torture devices and many baguettes - ZRS learned the musical secrets of Parisian swing in the 1930's.... It has been decided by the council that NOW is time to re-enter the Earth's atmopsphere and bestow their musical and artistic findings on the glorious Earth masses...."
Www.myspace.com/zegnotronicrocketsociety
www.angelfire.com/jazz/zrs/
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