Nikki Scheller harmony
Peter Hess flute clarinet saxophone
Greg Glassman trumpet
Tom Gavin banjo guitar
Ben Rubin bass
Jeff Davis drums
With a voice as “idiosyncratic as they come...which is all part of the fun” - Pitchfork Media Feature, Amy gives us songs that are “not like much else you've ever heard” - Three Weeks, Scotland
"Terrific. Absolutely terrific" - Stuart Maconie, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone BBC 6 Music
"Well-trained, self-inspired talent for the odd, up and down and all-around, and out there" - Voice Choices, The Village Voice
"Boiling over with life. Instruments that you don't usually hear together playing melodies that aren't quite like anyone else's. You just dive in and enjoy" - David Garland, WNYC's Spinning on Air
"Amy's songs are unique and not influenced by rock music, but from an earlier tradition, the nether-world between off-Broadway and other more modern songwriters that don't come from the folk world, but borrow from some more jazz influences..The well thought out arrangements remind me of Van Dyke Parks on his debut "Song Cycle.".. Amy's new disc is one of those overlooked gems that local hipsters might miss if they weren't so caught up in which trend looks cool this week" - Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery Review
"Great music..Amy Kohn's debut I'm in Crinoline, a jazz-pop-composer's record fit for people who think Steve Reich should be writing showtunes. I'll play my obscuro card by saying it actually reminds me most of personal heroes Annette Peacock (check her I'm the One from 1972 for maximum out-jazz soul-pop) and the slept-on John Greaves/Peter Blegvad/Lisa Herman masterpiece Kew.Rhone from 1977, both of which answer the question, "What would jazz sound like if it was an excuse to write complex pop songs with baroque counterpoint?" - Dominique Leone, Pitchfork Media Feature "Out Music"
“Brand new and excellent...Really nice album I’m in Crinoline...there’s all kinds of instruments, and all kinds of styles going on on this record” - Stuart Maconie, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone BBC 6 Music
"Her compositions and arrangements are complex and extraordinary - with influences from classical to jazz and much in between, and when you add this to her soaring, impressionistic vocals and instantly recognizable voice, the resulting music is totally unique...You simply can't take your eyes off her" - Sue Edwards, Jazzshark
"Situated somewhere between Thelonious Monk's quirkyness and Suzzy Roche's sweetness, her music possesses, at once, a childlike innocence and a harmonically and rhythmically advanced sense of inquiry. Oddly Structured Beauty" - The Scottish Herald
Amy Kohn is a pianist, accordionist and singer who's imaginative music is heard via contemporary classical artists (Ethel String Quartet, Pianist Guy Livingston) to Italian children’s theater (Fantaghiro’) to innovative US and European radio (BBC Radio 3 and 6, WNYC, Netherlands’ Concertzender and others). In the past year and half, she’s performed her music in tandem with Italian pianist Debora Petrina (NientAltroKeDonne) and solo at festivals throughout Italy and Croatia including UBI Jazz, Woma Jazz, Festival Segnali All’Orizzonte, and FoPA. She leads her 7-piece band to NY venues such as Joe’s Pub and the Issue Project Room. In 2006, Amy released her last album, I’m in Crinoline, and she’s working on the next, extra-lustrous one, with songs about fake airplane-sex, orange-shaped heartache, Brazilian neon, and L.E.D lights. She is honored to be a featured singer, along with Chaka Khan and Norah Jones, on a CD and DVD of legendary Producer Arif Mardin’s music, coming out this year. With a voice as “idiosyncratic as they come...which is all part of the fun” (Pitchfork Media Feature), Amy gives us songs that are “not like much else you've ever heard” (Three Weeks, Scotland).
Amy Kohn è una pianista, fisarmonicista e cantante la cui musica immaginativa viene ascoltata attraverso artisti contemporanei (il quartetto d'archi Ethel, il pianista Guy Livingston) o in onda su innovative stazioni radio americane ed europee (BBC Radio 3 e 6, Resonance Radio, speciale live alla WNYC Spinning on Air, Netherlands’ Concertzender e altre). Nell'ultimo anno ha suonato la sua musica in solo e in tandem con la pianista Debora Petrina in vari festival italiani e croati tra cui UBI Jazz, Woma Jazz, Geni Musicali e al Festival of Performing Arts a Pola (Croazia). Amy dirige la sua band di 7 componenti suonando nei locali di New York come Joe's Pub e Issue Project Room. Nel 2006 Amy ha rilasciato il suo ultimo album, I'm in Crinoline, e attualmente sta lavorando al nuovo, con canzoni su simulatori di volo, neon brasiliani a mal di cuore a forma di arancia. E' onorata di essere stata scelta, come Chaka Khan e Norah Jones, dal leggendario Arif Mardin (produttore di Aretha Franklin, Norah Jones e tanti altri) in un CD e DVD di prossima uscita sulla vita e la musica di quest'ultimo.
Greetings. I just wanted to thank you for your continued support and invite you to have a first listen on myspace to the tracks off the new EP "Monster & Minstrel" due out later this month. Bright stars to you! Ahmond
Hi stopping by to say Hi and invite you to a listen of my new minute long version of White Christmas.Thank you for your support and the Best To you always. tim
Hello folks, We want to invite you good peoples to some upcomings events: PAS will performing/presenting three shows next weekend. First on Tuesday Nov 3rd at Death by Audio with Abstract Artimus! Then we will be doing an audio installation for the Experi-MENTAL Festval and a performance at Monkeytown. See below: 11/03/2009 08:00 PM - Death By Audio W/ Abstract Artimus 49 South 2nd Street Brooklyn, New York 11211 US Cost:N/A Description:.abstract artimus .the armchairs .PAS .mystic motorcycles .da comrade .manson family picnic ______________ 11/07/2009 06:00 PM - PAS presents: The Experi-MENTAL Festival @ Goodbye Blue Monday 1087 Broadway, Between Stanton and Dodworth (Bushwick) Brooklyn, New York US Cost:Donation Description:Saturday, November 7th--The Experi-MENTAL Festival.............................Visuals by Big Brother on Acid...Music by Plague Doktor, The Strangewalls, Dead Girl History, Ghoul Poon, Nattahnam and the Jazz Fakers, Brandstifter, Fluid , Calves, Zilmrah, PAS (Post Abortion Stress) ___________ 11/08/2009 08:00 PM - PAS Presents-Experimental Music Showcase: Monkeytown-Brooklyn, NY 58 N 3rd St, (btw. Kent & Wythe) Brooklyn, New York 11211 US Cost:$10 Description:Four acts presented by PAS. Visuals by Big Brother on Acid 1-Zilmrah, 2-Kaoru Watanabe and friends, 3-Fluid from Chicago, 4-PAS featuring Michael Durek and Trinitron
Thursday 29th October @ 7.30pm - (Roshi feat. Pars Radio album launch) @ The Flea Pit, 49 Columbia Road, London, E2 7RG. Cost: £4 launch night for the ’The Sky And The Caspian Sea’, the debut album from Roshi feat. Pars Records, on GEO Records (myspace.com/roshisongs / myspace.com/georecordsuk). Support comes from Rothko man Mark Beazley’s Signals, Gideon Coe favourites Hong In The 60s, and Orchestra Pit/Scaledown impresario Mark Braby’s new project Damp Matchbox.
Friday 30th October @ 7pm SCALEDOWN co-presents a SARTORIAL RECORDS special, upstairs @ The King & Queen, 1 Foley Street, London, W1W 6DL. Cost: £0 (donations welcome(d)) okay, so it’s Scaledown Friday as we actually all dress up in our best whistles for a night of music featuring Terry Edwards alongwith artists from his Sartorial roster + our own guests. Full bill: Terry Edwards & Simon Charterton, Micko Westmoreland, Ian R. Watson, Pete Marsh & Pete May, Bob Constant & The Goodbye Horses, Iris Garrelfs and Damp Matchbox. Further details can be found @ http:www.theorchestrapit.com/scaledown.
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