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Gigs:
September 10th
Precinct
70 Union Square
Somerville, MA
Also playing: The Crushing Low; I,
Pistol; Vanzetti
September 23rd
House
of Blues (front room)
15 Lansdowne St
Boston, MA
Also playing: White Castle of Ambient
(members of Garvy J), Cooling
Towers
October 21st
Gulu-Gulu Cafe
247 Essex St
Salem, MA
November 8th
Somerville Cable Access TV
We will record a one hour set for
this show, broadcast date TBA
December 11th
Gallery 119
119 Chelmsford St
Lowell, MA
Current projects/news:
September 2010 ::: Check out this stellar
review of my last solo show in NYC, by Alan Young of Lucid Culture! Thanks
Alan! 2 shows with the full band this month! Joel Simches
is playing bass with us again:)
August 2010 ::: Played The Delancey in NYC last
night, at Paul Wallfisch's Small
Beast. It was a solo show, and it rocked, IMHO. Many
NYC friends came out to support. I spent a lot of time outside my
comfort zone during the set, as I debuted a few songs. I
performed exclusively on mandolin and piano.
Thanks
so much to those who came out to see me in Lowell, MA on the bill with
Soriah. I was nervous, not having done a solo show in nearly 2
years, but debuted a new song, 'Desperate
Kiss'. Great Scott with the full band was amazing as
well. We had a couple great shows in a short amount of time, and
I feel some momentum, especially sitting here mixing 2 more songs with
Martin.
July 2010 ::: We are
currently working on the second record, mixing with Martin
Bisi, and anticipate a
fall 2010 release.
Possibly November! The artwork will likely include pictures Tony
took during our trip to Turkey last
year, and yet another fortress - Uçhisar. Basics for most tracks
were recorded in January at BC Studios in Brooklyn,
NY with Martin Bisi engineering
and Brian Viglione,
formerly of The Dresden Dolls, playing drums on it. Dave Yanolis joined us on bass
guitar, and is in the live band, too. Also, many thanks to our
original bassist Joel Simches
for helping record the vocals and some additional instrumental tracks!
This album is going to be different in many ways. It's much more
collaborative between me and Tony Savarino. We are including a
hard-hitting Turkish Queen song that S.J. Roi and I demo'd in 2005. The
personnel on this record is more varied, including numerous musicians
and engineers. Whereas, the first time around it was 5 people from
recording through mixing.
Janaka Stucky of Black Ocean will contribute some poetic appeal to the liner notes, and expect printed lyrics this time. I am very excited about that!
Our music video screened at the Boston
Underground
Film
Festival this year.
We shared the stage with Serena-Maneesh (Norway) in April. They have
an amazing new album out on 4AD, and they previously also worked with
Martin Bisi.
We recently taped a set and
interview on CCTV in Cambridge,
Massachusetts that is currently airing in the Metro Boston area. The
set includes a lot of new material. Thanks to Matt and Marissa for
making it happen! They did an awesome job integrating the interview
with the set footage!
8/7/09 ::: We have been working hard these past
several months - doing shows out of town, out of state, etc. We played
with Erin Lang, who was lovely, and we did two shows with Martin Bisi
(7/31 & 8/1), where Tony and I sat in for his set. Pictures
here! Another highlight of the year so
far was playing Boston's annual Turkish Festival.
Background:
"Given the band’s name and the fact that its front-lady
is called Ajda the Turkish Queen, you might expect full-on, flat-out
Goth. But elements of folk, country, and blues mingle with measured
psychedelia and “Model Café”— a country romp about a love affair
sparked in that famed Allston establishment — is easily the local song
of 2008." - Linda Laban
Youtube,
Myspace, Facebook
I am on Twitter , myspace, and blogger.com. Please befriend me there...That is where you cand find some pics and links, and my blog.
I recently recorded some mandolin for Tony Savarino's upcoming solo record. The song I played on is a mashup of 2 parts of the Ennio Morricone theme to "A Fistful of Dollars".
I have been doing many shows and tours with Martin Bisi, from New York City to Kansas City. I performed backing vocals for the title track of his album 'Sirens of the Apocalypse' and on several tracks on his new digital EP Son of a Gun. The EP also features Bill Laswell and Brian Viglione (ex-Dresden Dolls). Here are some pics from Martin's May 2008 CD release at the Knitting Factory, which also included Laswell, John Zorn and others.
Please take a moment to read the journals and view the pictures of my 3 tours from the past year!
Summer 2009 tour II journal (Mid-Atlantic with Martin Bisi) and pics...
Summer 2009 tour I journal (West Coast with Martin Bisi) and pics...
Winter 2009 tour blog
(Midwest with Martin Bisi) and pics ...
I performed some flute recording with Darkflow, which involves some of the family of bands that rehearse in our space V8.
In late December 2008, I recorded some flute and mandolin for my friends Abunai! on their track 'Jamaicaway'. Check it out!
Late October 2008 I performed with Bill T Miller's Orgy of Noise. It was a noisy little experimental quartet, with me on vox and skull shaker - the sort of thing I haven't done in awhile. Bill's blog and various pics can be found here. He is the multi-media documentation king! I dressed up pretty sexy for the show.
In 2007, I did the soundtrack for an independent film entitled Ana's Time, by director Alice Cox. I composed new music on piano, tenor banjo, and guitar. Black Fortress of Opium recorded a cover for this movie as well, as mentioned above. I am excited to announce the film was screened at the Atlanta Film Festival in 2008. I posted one version of the main piano theme on my solo myspace page. The soundtrack also features a recording of my version of 'Afraid' by Nico.
In 2007, I did some vocals for an anti-war song called "End War Now" written by T Max, editor/publisher of the local Boston music magazine 'The Noise'. The session was at Hi'N'Dry Studios, which was started by Mark Sandman of Morphine. The song is now complete and thusly available on the myspace page for you to download. The song, along with other anti-war tracks, is featured on Neil Young's website.
An interview I did on www.gothtronic.com...
Two pieces of my original music can be heard in the independent film Pony Trouble. The whole soundtrack rocks, also featuring Dame Darcy, Freezepop, Lorette Velvette (The Hellcats, The Kropotkins, Sonic Youth, Tav Falco's Panther Burns), and many others. Officially released in March of 2007, the film is distributed through Brain Damage Films. You can buy the Pony Trouble DVD here. The film is also available through Netflix.
My other band, Narcoterror, recorded 5 tracks for an EP, which may one day be released. One of our songs made its way to Angel Sighs - a website of some people putting together a Spiritualized tribute album. Our cover of "Electric Mainline" is on there. Check it out! Please befriend us on myspace.
My previous band
Turkish Queen has a myspace
page, with tracks as well as plenty of photos.
I am a 5-time
recipient of the ASCAPLUS Award. If you
are a musician, I highly recommend joining ASCAP as a performing
rights society. They offer monetary awards to new/developing artists,
which can be ohsohelpful until royalties start pouring in.
† RIP Dear Mother †
† RIP Scott Roy †