Kelli Scarr - Piece

Our Rating:

8

Producers take note, this album keeps a consistent instrumentation gimmick which is comforting and it's put in enough varying settings to keep it interesting.

An out of tune, broken, repetitive piano in a gigantic chamber. Older, clean electric guitar in the same reverberation chamber. A little Cello. Wispy with a gentle warble but rich sounding lead solo vocals. Layered group harmony vocals with tight tuning play push/pull with the intentionally damaged tuning of the lead vox. Drum machine fades in and out. Thin, non-resonant metal string jangle and creamy room ring frequently juxtaposed. Gentle bass puffs throughout. All the giant reflection lush reverberation is clear, not too opaque. It's often slow, sitting on your heart, slowing it to a labored pace.

Kelli Scarr - Break Up, Live in Paris

songs: - She drags her feelings across a great languid. Splattering firework drums at end with a neat little distortion trick. - The singing sisters show up. rumpty rumpty. purposeful straight ahead with beat lean back at the waist. - Do we hear real live audio of her break up with a guy? She makes the break up a little easier by singing softly, bringing her sisters in again and playing a floating space guitar. Much appreciated by the dumpee who is asleep and is a bum she can live without. - Oh no, my endocrine's getting dragged again. Time's not changing, and you're quiet. But your hammers are pounding, nothing's changing. - Loose steel string thin sounding guitars. Cathedral reverb. She's trying to stop the whole family from grieving by reducing their blood pressure. Feel her heaviness on your breast. - She's preggers. there's weak, tapping brushes accompanying. She's tired of carrying this little freeloader, but she can't wait to see it either. Simple piano at end with backward delay. She really wants this baby out! - Dimension shifter. Vocals are a 3-D surround trailer for a slow movie, toe tap moping all over your speakers. - Drum machine. Smooth jazz but folked up. A Sade affection for a semi-long relationship. - Broken piano touchstone, guitar with reverb touchstone. Repeated to celebrate a good person. Maybe the bambino.

- Her damn tooting wrangler is away and she wants him back, she'll be nice give him his space, like her band does for her sad voice.

Kelli Scarr - Salt to the Sea@The Wiltern, L.A. LIVE (portion)

Kelli Scarr is currently on the road check her out at one of the following dates:

US Tour Dates

July 23 – San Diego, CA – The Park Gallery*
July 24 – Los Angeles, CA – Hotel Café*
July 25 – Santa Barbara, CA – Muddy Waters Café*
July 27 – San Francisco, CA – Hotel Utah*
July 28 – Sacramento, CA – Luigi's Fungarden*
July 30 – Lake Tahoe, CA – Wanderlust Festival
July 31 – Lake Tahoe, CA – Wanderlust Festival (acoustic set w Moby)

* The Shivers

Justin Asher

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Justin Asher

July 14th, A.D. 1988
My usual aversion to ice cubes and the pathogens they might preserve was put aside today when a chilled crowberry syrup was offered to me by my captors after 3 days in their stinging sweatbox. It's a mystery how I suddenly stoked their wrath but even stranger how I was granted entree to their mountain sanctum to begin with. Perhaps the feculent torture box was not punishment but initiation. what brutal truths lie ahead? Kept in place with crimean war-era muskets, the village bathed in fireside watery brass lit obscurity, I was forced to watch a man, who appeared the oldest among them, rifle through my travel satchel and remove it's contents. scarcely able to breath I dry heaved the words "it's just a bunch of old records". My desperate foreign tongue was ignored and his thorough search continued 

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