MICHAEL MAZZENGA: drums/percussion, live backing vocals
PERI BRACY: bass
other musicians on recordings etc.:
ADAM TRULL: trumpet
JERUSHA ROBINSON: cello, backing vocals
ROBIN FETKHE: violin on all tracks included on this page
Influences
Musical: Nico (solo), Diamanda Galas, Grace Slick, PJ Harvey, Iron Maiden, Beethoven, Sixteen Horsepower, Dead Can Dance, Metallica, Michael Nyman, Sinead O'Connor, Patti Smith, Johnny Cash, Moon Lay Hidden, traditional middle eastern...
...personal tragedy and regeneration; a recognition and contemplation of collective suffering...the touch of the Dark Goddess...the haunting of ancestors....the daimon...the trickster...the Sacred Whore...Mary Magdelene, Persephone, The Furies, Aphrodite...an obsession with the intersections of fate, sex, death, violence and the holy....
Astrology (especially in regard to the mysteries of Pluto, as in Liz Greene's Astrology of Fate), Jungian psychology, Wilhelm Reich's The Murder of Christ, Peter Redgrove's The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real, medieval fairytale and ancient myth, Greek tragedy, "heretical" Christianity, Spiritualism, the remote wild coast of Maine and woods of New England.
Sounds Like
The Portland Phoenix says: "sprawling dark songs with elements of gothic pop and classical music. Picture the illegitimate offspring of PJ Harvey and Nick Cave raised in an abandoned concert hall..." Face Magazine: "Like Grace Slick with black lipstick" Click on the picture for more reviews
Aepril Schaile and the Judgement is currently working toward creating a more theatrical production, using Aepril's background in dance and theater for a new dark mistresspiece!. Keep checking back for updates on this page, in our blogs, and at www.aeprilschaile.com
AEPRIL SCHAILE is a mournful, prosecuting specter and a living, ravenous mother-wolf hell-bent on delivering new life. Once a skeleton woman in a shack on the outskirts of town, the spirits of Music came to Aepril after shed died, and then gasped and jolted back to life, the Dead and the Wild her ardent and adamant muses...
Aepril is spending the curse on the house of Schaile, banishing the demons and placating the gods with the plutonian musicians of THE JUDGEMENT (named so for Trump XX of the tarot: the card of the resurrection of the dead and the salvation of the exiled)....At turns forbidding and vulnerable, venomous and erotic, the show has a shamanistic quality, with Aepril as the twice-born haunted medium, conducting a seance for the enraged, unrelenting spirits of the ill-fortuned and forsaken...
To contact Aepril Schaile and The Judgement, visit www.aeprilschaile.com.
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Hello Aepril!! Thanx for the add!! Very strange and great atmosphere! I like those classic influences! Your world is very different and that is great!!! Good tunes!! Have a very nice week-end!! Pris.
Hi A warm hello and kind regards 2 U. Thank U 4 your friendship. Music has a way of bringing creativity together Hope U have a great day and an awesome year. May the coming months bring kind Blessings 2 u. Love . Enjoy the music. . Thank U 4 sharing yours
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Hi dear friends and thank you so much for adding me in your great musical dark world, i'm truely honored!!! I hope you'll enjoy my creepy works, greetings, Démétrius...
