MIDNIGHT MANOR EP
7 songs (self-released) Jan 8, 2008
MIDNIGHT MANOR (track list):
1. Sad Song
2. Doubt
3. Bipolar Belle
4. Some Friend You Are
5. Third & Orange
6. Six Degrees
7. Taunting Greed
Produced by Chase Frank, recorded by Robbie Reverberation, Mixed by David Krepinevich, Mastered by John Pemble
Players: Chase Frank (gtr, vocals, organ, piano), La Dawn Best (drums), Ahmad Jamal Butler (vocals), Beegs (vocals--6 degrees)
WINTER IS MY SUMMER
13 songs/Vesuvius, Feb. 2006
WINTER IS MY SUMMER (song list):
1. Tabitha's Plea
2. Hometown Love
3. Front Lines
4. My Captor
5. Space Report
6. Gospel of Sue
7. Twelve Hours to Go
8. Tethered Heart
9. More
10. The Groom
11. Kickstart
12. Night Eyes Are Wild
13. Floating with Sarah
Produced by Chase Frank/Robbie Reverberation, Engineered & Mixed by Robbie Reverberation (2006) Mastered by John Pemble, released & funded by Vesuvius Records
Players: Chase Frank (guitar, vocals, potatoe and kettle, various percussion, background vocals.
BEE OF MY MIND
8 songs / Poverty Level Records / 2004
BEE OF MY MIND Track Listing:
1. Sweet Silence
2 Sleepwalking
3. Kickstart
4. Licorice Root
5. All Voices
6. Yellow 4
7. Sweet Bee Returns (reprise, Gauer)
Produced by Chase Frank & Sergio Quintero (2002/2003), mixed by Quintero/Frank, "Mellow" Mike Clark, Jeff Harris, Shea Gauer, mastered by Chase Frank
Players: Chase Frank [guitar, Spoon Guitar, piano, ukulele, vocals, dulcimer, percussion, b.g. vocals], Robby Delosier (Contra Bass), Rob Freeman (Drums), David Bunoan (Lap Steel/Bass),Elaine Luzung (Electric Bass), David Lizarde (violin), David Dusseux (trumpet)
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Influences
P.J. Harvey, Billie Holiday, The Geraldine Fibbers, Carla Bozulich, Nels Cline, Nico, Stereolab, Nina Simone, The Ravonettes, Portishead, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Love, Robert Johnson, Broadcast, The Swans, Tricky, Sacharine Trust, Elliot Smith, The Kills, Jimmy Hendrix, Deerhoof, Gabor Zabo, Bartok, Grant Green, Gnarles Barkley, La Dawn Best, Cat Power, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Komeda, The Who, Randy Newman, T-Rex, Stevie Wonder (especially early), Ali Farka Toure, John & Alice Coltrane, Lou Reed, Loretta Lynn, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Enio Moricone, Patsy Cline, Rufus Wainright, Spacemen 3, Blonde Redhead, Secret Machines, Johny Cash, Dianna Ross & the Supremes, Keith Richards (early Stones/Tom Waits), Cee Lo Green, The Tindersticks, Minmae, Robert Fripp, Wilco, Rademacher, J.C. Superstar (yes, the musical!), King Crimson, El Paso Hot Button, Mia Doi Todd
CHASE FRANK is a multi-tasking maniac who approaches music as art. Her live-loop-samplings may mesmerize as she blends torch vocals, vintage guitar and witicism. In her nine lives she has produced California festivals, organized show upon show, worked with folks like Alan Ginsberg & Patti Smith, & toured the West Coast and beyond in support of her albums. Originally from Long Beach, CA she now resides in Austin, TX, recording & touring regularly. Band mates are project-based and have included La Dawn Best, Ahmad-Jamal Butler and a delicious array of guests.
She is currently working on her 4th album. Please pick up the latest release, which continues to receive positive critiques from even the most jaded music critic....it's called "MIDNIGHT MANOR" (CD/EP). Hells yeah.
(Dear bands, we had to block band adds, please send us a message if you want us to add you and we truly have something in common).
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Midnight Manor EP
Jan 8, 2008, Self released, 23 min
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DETROIT METRO TIMES, Jeffrey Morgan
SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Chase Frank — Midnight Manor (self-released) :: Chase is a girl and, boy, can she ever write, sing and play a whole host of everything, from deep-sixed dirges ("Sad Song") and upbeat rockers ("Doubt") to decadent Euro-sautéed cabaret torch numbers ("Bipolar Belle"). I also get the feeling that’s she’s got a loose screw or two rattling around somewhere in that big beautiful brain of hers — always a plus in my book. (Oct. '08)
LEFT OF THE DIAL MAG (.com)
"Chase Frank comes off like the moody side of Patti Smith and the unerring arcade symbolist poetry of PJ Harvey, especially on tracks like "Doubt," with its slightly funky drumming and ghostly guitar whispers on one hand and a dampened post-punk blues crunchiness on the other. Her voice withers and wraps around your cerebrum with a dire sense of otherness and abjection...."
(Aug '08
www.leftofthedialmag.com
PERFORMING SONGWRITER / EP REVIEW
"This seven-song set casts Frank and her bandmates in a mostly menacing light, be it the arch exhilaration of "Doubt" or the ominous strains of "Some Friend You Are" and "Six Degrees." Predictably, edge and attitude win out. Clearly, the lady is a vamp." (July/Aug. 08 DIY section)
"Her new album—white cover, white heat"...."lean clipped loop-unit-blues with iron vigor like PJ Harvey and a little of the outsider wildness of guys like George Brigman or Michael Yonkers."
SXSW 2008 / AUSTIN CHRONICLE AUSTIN CHRONICLE! SXSW 2008
Melanie Haupt came to the YARRR PR / Greyday Records day party I played w/Ahmad & and said they "they specialize in angry, confessional lo-fi rock". Guilty as charged, Melanie!
MTV.COM RECOMMENDS CHASE'S EP Yep, guess me and T-pain rolled out on the same day. Also Patti Smith's release was 1/8/08, same day as Midnight Manor. It's a weird world.
OC WEEKLY -- 'LOCALS ONLY'
"...mean lean rock that’s set to slow boil. “Bipolar Belle” waltzes darkly with the standard “My Favorite Things,” adding flinty guitar accents and forbidding vocals in the vein of ex-Geraldine Fibbers front woman Carla Bozulich." FULL REVIEW
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---------------------------------------------- REVIEWS FOR "WINTER IS MY SUMMER"
full length. 13 songs, 2006, Vesuvius Records, 59 min
second album
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LONG BEACH MAGAZINE
...."follows closely along the lines of great bands like Portishead and the fuzz-crunchiness of Sonic Youth. The thirteen songs on her album prove
that you only need one to make it happen." Valdas Karalis, LONG BEACH MAGAZINE
OC WEEKLY 2005
....a "one woman guitar storm".
Chris Ziegler, show preview, 2005
BIG WHEEL MAGAZINE
" 'Front Lines' and 'Twelve Hours to Go' are some great songs with some thinly veiled opinions on certain topics in the U. S. Watch out Chase, or Dick Cheney might come shoot you in the face."
Boyd Wunder, 2006
COLLECTED SOUNDS, SWEDEN
"My Captor" is a startling lo-fi exercise in sound that recalls Sonic Youth.....The white-hot intensity of "Tethered Heart" is accomplished with the slightest of instrumentation. But Frank's vocal is strong enough to carry it. "
Anna Maria Stjärnell, COLLECTED SOUNDS
Stockholm, Sweden COLLECTED SOUNDS REVIEW
TIM'S BEFUDDLED UNIVERSE
"Kaki King turned me onto little girls with big guitars. I've started looking out for good women solo guitar players. If you like guitar without gimmicks, I expect you'll like Chase Frank's latest CD, ....Winter Is My Summer''. Chase Frank's music will catch many people by surprise, but, if they take the time to catch up with her, I believe they will be aptly rewarded for their effort."
TIM'S BEFUDDLED UNIVERSE (.org), San Jose Ca
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REVIEWS FOR BEE OF MY MIND
2003, Poverty Level Records
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Short, but oh so sweet. Chase Frank's debut is perfect on so many levels. Her voice is a flexible instrument that suits her music's free spirit well.
Anna Maria Stjärnell, COLLECTED SOUNDS
Stockholm, Sweden full review here
MERCH!! HOW TO BUY STUFF HERE?The new 7 song EP, "MIDNIGHT MANOR", Album & single tracks can be purchased here, single tracks (I-tunes--left, Snocap--above) or mail-order by PayPal (look left) or CD Baby for nat'l & intn'l mail-order.
PLACES PLAYED:
EMO'S, THE BEAUTY BAR, THE RED DEVIL LOUNGE, HEMLOCK TAVERN, HOTEL UTAH, THE KNOCKOUT, SPACELAND, DETROIT BAR, CRASH MANSION, CHARLIE O's, DANTE'S, PEHRSPACE, ECHO CURIO, THE PROSPECTOR, THE COG (rip), FLAMINGO CANTINA, and too many others to mention
CHASE FRANK has played with:
THAT 1 GUY, MIA DOI TODD, BANYAN (Nels Cline, Mike Watt, Perkins), THEE MORE SHALLOWS, THE PITY PARTY, EL TEN ELEVEN, THE HAPPY HOLLOWS, MINMAE and many many more 2004--present. Watch for us in a town near you!
thanks chase. how are things? I've been working on some stuff. I'm doing a big piece I told you I wasn't going to but I just can't get away from those large size pieces, truthfully it's easier to get all I want to say on a larger surface. I got you something the other day. I want to send it to you but I need to get a bubble envelope. early birthday gift. I applied to unemployment. scary and easy. what's going on with you?
the lounge was weird huh, I already know it's in my neighborhood lol When I called I had 4 drinks down & needed to post while I was waiting to meet up, it sounded like 'yall weren't ready for company so I went home...... and passed out
so it's starting to get humid around here and the mosquitos are starting to suck with avengence. i'm headed to the lbc in july and i just realized you won't be there. i don't know why that just dawned on me, i just saw you in march. weird, huh?
