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Maximum Joy Presents
CHROMATICS (ITALIANS DO IT BETTER, PORTLAND USA)
DONAL DINEEN
SPILLY WALKER
MAXIMUM JOY DJs
ANDREWS LANE THEATRE, D2
Thursday April 24th, 10pm til late
ADM: 17.50 (on door) / 18.50
[URL="http://www.myspace.com/chromaticsmusicswww.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub"]www.myspace.com/chromaticsmusics
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CHROMATICS
Taking a cross section from 70's horror films, a fixation with ancient societies, and a love for percussive electronic music, founding member, Adam Miller, hooked up with Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy) in the summer of 2004 to start working on a record unlike any Chromatics had done before. During the summer of 2006, Chromatics welcomed Ruth Radalet on lead vocals, and Nat Walker on percussion and saxophone.
In autumn 2007 Chromatics released "In the City" as a 12" single on ITALIANS DO IT BETTER records. Bootlegs of the demo version had been circulating across dance floors and internet radio all year. It was followed by the release of Night Drive a CD only album featuring 'Hands in the Dark' and a cover of Kate Bushes 'Running up That Hill'.
The album features Ruth sharing the spotlight with occasional bursts of vocoder. While the group experiments equally with outsider Electro and melodramatic string arrangements, she sings a tense lullaby not unlike Mia Farrow in Komeda's theme from Rosemary's Baby.
In a live setting, Chromatics keep it minimal. The synthesizers handle the Cosmic elements, the guitar takes care of the moodier edge, and the drums are stripped down to a dirty disco for dancing. What's the end result? Well, to quote the group's own blog on myspace, "Imagine if Michael McDonald accidentally crashed his yacht into a disco off the shores of Italy while staring into the horse head nebula."
Maximum Joy Presents
CHROMATICS (ITALIANS DO IT BETTER, PORTLAND USA)
DONAL DINEEN
SPILLY WALKER
MAXIMUM JOY DJs
ANDREWS LANE THEATRE, D2
Thursday April 24th, 10pm til late
ADM: 17.50 (on door) / 18.50
[URL="http://www.myspace.com/chromaticsmusicswww.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub"]www.myspace.com/chromaticsmusics
www.myspace.com/maximumjoyclub[/URL]
CHROMATICS
Taking a cross section from 70's horror films, a fixation with ancient societies, and a love for percussive electronic music, founding member, Adam Miller, hooked up with Johnny Jewel (Glass Candy) in the summer of 2004 to start working on a record unlike any Chromatics had done before. During the summer of 2006, Chromatics welcomed Ruth Radalet on lead vocals, and Nat Walker on percussion and saxophone.
In autumn 2007 Chromatics released "In the City" as a 12" single on ITALIANS DO IT BETTER records. Bootlegs of the demo version had been circulating across dance floors and internet radio all year. It was followed by the release of Night Drive a CD only album featuring 'Hands in the Dark' and a cover of Kate Bushes 'Running up That Hill'.
The album features Ruth sharing the spotlight with occasional bursts of vocoder. While the group experiments equally with outsider Electro and melodramatic string arrangements, she sings a tense lullaby not unlike Mia Farrow in Komeda's theme from Rosemary's Baby.
In a live setting, Chromatics keep it minimal. The synthesizers handle the Cosmic elements, the guitar takes care of the moodier edge, and the drums are stripped down to a dirty disco for dancing. What's the end result? Well, to quote the group's own blog on myspace, "Imagine if Michael McDonald accidentally crashed his yacht into a disco off the shores of Italy while staring into the horse head nebula."
