Nora Keyes this Friday!! Posted by Larry on 2006-07-04 1:32:48pm

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Don't miss out on this magnificent show Friday night kiddies....


NORA KEYES is a singer, organist, and artist who grew up in a haunted house in Los Angeles. At an early age, she was forced to go to school in the inner city whereby she was chased around the playground by vicious gangs. Because she is small, she had to learn hand to hand combat with her teeth and nails. Aside from singing with The Centimeters, she also performs alone; just her and her portable church organ. The music she plays is what you'd expect from decomposing convalescent home cadavers wrapped in old velvet curtains. It is mournful, it is wailing, and it is the songs of the downtown L.A.; cockroaches on a steamy, foggy night before all the buildings crumble and fall under their own weight and history. A history that only the roaches, moths, and silverfish are privileged to...and Nora's church organ.

While some believe that Nora is a cranky old lady, I?m inclined to think of her as a sort of broken phonographic, scratchy recording of the history of L.A. Not the cheery, orange tinted vision but the one that only gurgling water bugs sing about at night to their children. Think Lizard people in the drainage pipes, dancing in rotted ballrooms, burritos that spit semen at children, Norma Desmond as a dirt caked mascara monster bag lady, Asian businessmen picking apart their cuticles and you get closer to the picture. You see, this is all L.A., but not the kind that Scientology (they own Hollywood so therefore all media everywhere) would want anyone, especially you, to know about.

When not singing in The Centimeters or on her own with her portable crying church organ, she makes pen and ink drawings in her parlor with her Finger people puppets and Ruby the Iguana- who recently escaped for four days because her cage was new.



Madame P is the latest musical incarnation of italian artist Patrizia Oliva. In the past she was a co-founder and member of the seminal all-female band Allun. She was also a member of Rosas Y Tulipanes duo along with Luca Pagani, guitarist of the alternative rock back Viclarsen. Recently she also started collaborations with Luca Sigurt in the highly experimental project Macaya, and with Tommaso Rolando and Marco Ravera, guitarist and double bass player of the acclaimed jazz/fusion band Calomito, in the impro/jazzy combo Toba. A few self-released EPs and a long series of successful concerts rapidly brought her among the most promising female italian acts. Her official debut album was released in Germany by Cold Coffeine Addict in November 2005. A noisy collaboration with The Afeman, a.k.a. Andrea Marutti, was released in April 2006 on Afe Records. Her live sets are focused on the wide range of her vocal techniques: she experiments with her voice sampling it in real time, feeding the result through various effect units along with contact microphones and other minimal electronic devices. She is currently working on her second album which will be released later during the year.



A toy xylophone on a cinder-block stand and a guitar stood before a pink, embroidered backdrop. A strange figure with a long mullet and enormous, billowing mutton chops took his place at the setup. He wore purple smears of paint on his eyes and a brown polyester suit with bell-bottoms. As the lights went down, he gently strummed repetitive chords on the guitar with hypnotic steadiness.

This was Dead Western, the solo project of resident baffler Troy Mighty, who also plays horns in Sacramento?s free-jazz ensemble Living Breathing Music. The crowd gathered, with many sitting down on the floor as Mighty started to sing low, moaning like a netherworld Morrissey. ?I?ve got a spaceship in my garage. / It?s been sitting there too long. / I?ll fly away someday ? / I can be my own best friend if I need to be,? he sang. Pained expressions crossed his face. Mighty closed or rolled his eyes, stuck his tongue out, tilted his head back, took on slack-jawed tranced-out expressions, and generally looked completely unhinged. With eerie simple melodies on the toy piano and guitar, absurd lyrics and sans-lithium charisma, Mighty kept the audience?s attention.

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message:	:Don't miss out on this magnificent show Friday night kiddies.... : :<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/larryr68/nora.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a> :NORA KEYES is a singer, organist, and artist who grew up in a haunted house in Los Angeles. At an early age, she was forced to go to school in the inner city whereby she was chased around the playground by vicious gangs. Because she is small, she had to learn hand to hand combat with her teeth and nails. Aside from singing with The Centimeters, she also performs alone; just her and her portable church organ. The music she plays is what you'd expect from decomposing convalescent home cadavers wrapped in old velvet curtains. It is mournful, it is wailing, and it is the songs of the downtown L.A.; cockroaches on a steamy, foggy night before all the buildings crumble and fall under their own weight and history. A history that only the roaches, moths, and silverfish are privileged to...and Nora's church organ. : :While some believe that Nora is a cranky old lady, I?m inclined to think of her as a sort of broken phonographic, scratchy recording of the history of L.A. Not the cheery, orange tinted vision but the one that only gurgling water bugs sing about at night to their children. Think Lizard people in the drainage pipes, dancing in rotted ballrooms, burritos that spit semen at children, Norma Desmond as a dirt caked mascara monster bag lady, Asian businessmen picking apart their cuticles and you get closer to the picture. You see, this is all L.A., but not the kind that Scientology (they own Hollywood so therefore all media everywhere) would want anyone, especially you, to know about. : :When not singing in The Centimeters or on her own with her portable crying church organ, she makes pen and ink drawings in her parlor with her Finger people puppets and Ruby the Iguana- who recently escaped for four days because her cage was new. : :<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/larryr68/madame_p_3.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a> : : Madame P is the latest musical incarnation of italian artist Patrizia Oliva. In the past she was a co-founder and member of the seminal all-female band Allun. She was also a member of Rosas Y Tulipanes duo along with Luca Pagani, guitarist of the alternative rock back Viclarsen. Recently she also started collaborations with Luca Sigurt in the highly experimental project Macaya, and with Tommaso Rolando and Marco Ravera, guitarist and double bass player of the acclaimed jazz/fusion band Calomito, in the impro/jazzy combo Toba. A few self-released EPs and a long series of successful concerts rapidly brought her among the most promising female italian acts. Her official debut album was released in Germany by Cold Coffeine Addict in November 2005. A noisy collaboration with The Afeman, a.k.a. Andrea Marutti, was released in April 2006 on Afe Records. Her live sets are focused on the wide range of her vocal techniques: she experiments with her voice sampling it in real time, feeding the result through various effect units along with contact microphones and other minimal electronic devices. She is currently working on her second album which will be released later during the year. : :<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b100/larryr68/deadwestern.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting"></a> : :A toy xylophone on a cinder-block stand and a guitar stood before a pink, embroidered backdrop. A strange figure with a long mullet and enormous, billowing mutton chops took his place at the setup. He wore purple smears of paint on his eyes and a brown polyester suit with bell-bottoms. As the lights went down, he gently strummed repetitive chords on the guitar with hypnotic steadiness. : :This was Dead Western, the solo project of resident baffler Troy Mighty, who also plays horns in Sacramento?s free-jazz ensemble Living Breathing Music. The crowd gathered, with many sitting down on the floor as Mighty started to sing low, moaning like a netherworld Morrissey. ?I?ve got a spaceship in my garage. / It?s been sitting there too long. / I?ll fly away someday ? / I can be my own best friend if I need to be,? he sang. Pained expressions crossed his face. Mighty closed or rolled his eyes, stuck his tongue out, tilted his head back, took on slack-jawed tranced-out expressions, and generally looked completely unhinged. With eerie simple melodies on the toy piano and guitar, absurd lyrics and sans-lithium charisma, Mighty kept the audience?s attention. : :

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