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l'art
Noir presents a Rare NOLA Musical Performance by
MYSHKIN
with
a 2nd Chance Viewing of PhotoNOLA2
featuring
Clint
Maedgen (of Bingo!), Jonathan Traviesa
Master Jeffrey, Andrea Garland
December
29th, 2007
Doors
open at 6:30 • Performance starts at 7:30
Suggested Donation $5 - $10
l'art
Noir New Orleans
4108 St. Claude Avenue • Tel: 504-324-2489
(between Mazant & France on St. Claude, riverside)
cash
bar. bywater prices.
ABOUT
MYSHKIN: Myshkin
has stories to tell and the means to tell them. She writes
with a dark and subtle wit, raw honesty, and a painters
eye. Her compositions bear the mark of an artist who finds
inspiration all over the map and incorporates far flung
musical ideas with a passionate ease. Who always has an
ear out for beauty but pays little attention to trends.
The result is an uncommonly timeless modern music.
Myshkin
plays an 80 year old martin tenor guitar, a vintage
gibson six string, and a jumbo lowden acoustic. Her
voice is her finest instrument though, and she wields
it like a fortune teller, an acrobat, a hunter, a
gift.
"Darkly
joyous, endlessly restless, and spellbinding. Gypsy,
Celtic, cabaret and punk influences, a masterfully
mercurial, seductive voice" - Sing Out
Myshkin
was rooted in the lowlands of Europe, conceived in Paris,
born and raised in the cornfield flatlands of the midwestern
US. At fifteen, she picked up her sister's guitar and began
to write songs. At twenty, a theater school dropout, she
took a year off to live in the woods of southern Indiana,
before setting off on a lifetime of travel and musical exploration.
She roamed through New Mexico, New York, Texas and Tennessee,
and landed in New Orleans in 1993, a solo record ("Slate")
in hand, determined to start a band. For
the next nine years, Myshkin based herself in that musically
rich city, while touring nationally and internationally.
She wrote songs about ordinary, extraordinary people, drawing
on her own experiences and stories she picked up on the road,
and explored and combined elements of the many genres and
eras of pre- and post-rock american music, from folk to jazz
to pop. Her collaboration with songwriter / multi-instrumentalist
Mike West resulted in 4 cds (Myshkin Impossible - "Dr.
Plague and Other Lullabies" / Mike West and Myshkin
- "Econoline" / Myshkin - "Blue Gold" /
Myshkin - "Why Do All the Country Girls Leave?")
and countless shows. Myshkin most often performed with an
electric trio at home, and as an acoustic duo on the road,
playing approximately 300 nights a year. Although an anomaly
in the New Orleans music scene, her song writing skill and
powerful voice attracted a strong following in the press
and public, and she was the recipient of several of the city's
music industry awards. During this period she also leant
her talents to various projects, recording and touring with
the Mike West Band, the Ez Bake Organs, the Kirk Rundstrom
Band ("Wicked Savior" / "Blue China",)
the Road Dog Divas ('Everythings In Boxes"), and doing
session work for many other artists.
"Fiercely
talented, elegantly skewed" - Time Out UK
In
2002 she cut herself loose from all these projects to concentrate
solely on her own music. She dubbed the new band Myshkin's
Ruby Warblers, and the first record, the self-produced "Rosebud
Bullets", took even long time fans by surprise with
it's broad musical vision, passionate delivery, and rich
arrangements. Reviewers of the record were all in agreement
that Myshkin's restless curiosity and skills had reached
a new level. In the summer of 2002, missing the physical
beauty of the american west and seeking a place with a more
progressive social climate, she relocated to Portland Oregon,
her long time drummer Scott Magee following later that year.
In Oregon she began working with multi-instrumentalist /
producer Sailor Banks, aka Sugar Short Wave, and their 5
year collaboration brought new dimensions to the sound of
the Ruby Warblers, introducing electronic elements and a
more cohesive sonic aesthetic. The band continued to tour
nationally and throughout Europe, and the albums "Corvidae" and "Sigh
Semaphore" were born of this period. Both records concentrate
lyrically on political and humanist themes, and show an artist
exploring wider worlds of sound while growing ever more subtle
in her art. Myshkin
is currently living in Portland, working with some of the
city's finest players, and focused on completing her newest
and most ambitious album, a bird's eye view of the mad world
that continues to inspire her.
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