Anne Watts - Vocals, Accordion, Piano
Craig Considine - Trombone
Curt Heavey - Guitar
Lyle Kissack - Drums
Denis Malloy - Bass Clarinet
Chas Marsh - Bass
Lawrence Bertoldi- Sound, Production
影響
Thelonious Monk, Jad Fair and Half Japanese, Eric Satie, Wilco, Flaming Lips, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, Roxy Music, Peter Hammill, Van der Graaf Generator, Bertold Brecht, Don Delillo, Mary Hambleton, Marlene Dietrich, Buster Keaton, Tom Waits, Pete Townshend, The Glassman, Howard Finster, Victoria Williams, Lucinda Williams, Jim Dickinson, John Lewis.
風格近似
"Any artist that can reference Lotte Lenya, Edith Piaf, Captain Beefheart, and Thelonious Monk at the same time is okay with me. Dark, earthtone vocals; faded, sepia band tracks; with a splash of day-glo. It makes Tom Waits sound like a sissy."
Jim Dickinson -Producer/Pianist/Legend (Replacements, Big Star, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan)
"Haunting....Like Dylan with estrogen."-John Barth
"Some Moths Drink The Tears of Elephants" is here, recorded with the great Jim Dickinson at Zebra Ranch in Mississippi. Dickinson produced the Replacements' classic "Pleased To Meet Me" and played piano on The Stones' "Sticky Fingers" and Dylan's "Time Out of Mind." He also produced Boister's 2003 "Pieces of Milk."
In the unsuspecting city of Baltimore, singer/pianist Anne Watts and a collective of creative types known as Boister are fashioning music unlike anything else currently coming out of the United States. The press has been especially enthusiastic in Europe, where Jade magazine called Boisters 1997 debut disc the album of the decade and critics lined up to praise the groups subsequent recordings (Song of the Smoke, Pieces of Milk, and Les Foules en Amour). One French critic likened Boister's music to "scenes shot in the footlights of a tin pan alley bar squatted by the Lounge Lizards and haunted by Kurt Weill, choreographed to Nino Rota with Irving Berlin on moonlit melodies, orchestrated with theatrical effects and pulsing with the fanfare of marching bands". Others have compared Watts to Tom Waits, Thelonious Monk, and Cat Power.
Boister's spirited live shows have quickened pulses up and down the East Coast, and the band has appeared at a variety of venues, including the World Cafe, AFI Silver, the Kennedy Center, numerous college campuses, and the NXNE Festival in Toronto. In the spring of 2006, the band was featured on National Public Radio's Morning Edition (Anne Watts and Boister: Music From Madness, archived at www.npr.org).
Beyond that, Boister's performances of original scores for classic Buster Keaton films have won widespread praise from critics including Roger Ebert. They have been performed to sold-out houses at The Maryland and Virginia Film Festivals, Radford University, Evergreen House at Johns Hopkins University, the Charles Theatre, The Smithsonian, and the Creative Alliance at the Patterson Theatre in Baltimore. In the summer of 2007, Boister presented their complete catalogue of scores for Keaton films (including several shorts featuring Curt Heavey on guitar, bass, and banjo) at the American Film Institute's Keaton festival.
On August 24th, 2007, Boister completed a residency at the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin. In conjunction with an exhibition featuring visionary artists Sabato Rodia, Nek Chand, Mary Nohl, and dozens of others, the performance highlighted the brilliant shadow puppetry and lantern construction of Nanaprojects, and included musicians and participants from the region. The band stayed on to record the score and a few miscellaneous songs with the talented Mr. Ripley.
Other recording projects include a tribute album to Jacques Brel (Barclay/Universal) entitled "Next," featuring David Bowie, Marc Almond, Nina Simone, and Gavin Friday, as well as Boister's "Amsterdam." Available through Amazon.uk.
Boister has recorded with regular support from the Maryland State Arts Council. Their discs can be heard on the radio in France, Spain , Canada, Australia, Italy, Germany, Finland, Belgium, Norway, Albuquerque, Charlottesville, Philadelphia, and Lookout Mountain, Georgia.
Here's a review from Toronto's Being There magazine:
http://beingtheremag.com/feature.php?id=285
Thank you so much for the add & compliments for your music. It as god as hard to catalogue and I reall enjoy it a lot. In fact I'm playing it in my radio shows here. All the best from Italy. MF
hi anne, i been fine - i'm co-hosting a new reading series - so that takes some time. bob is off now - i think he's touring europe in the spring. did you get tell tale signs? did you like it? i absolutely love the acoustic most of the time - i just listen to it over and over - i think it's one of his best songs.
We would be honored to accompany you on a bill! May be more of a reality in the coming year. A long-belated thank you for your kind support, dear friend, and all our love from San Francisco...
Hey Annie Banannie! - Thanks for the comment - & miss ya tons! The excerpts on the page from "Sister" sounds amazing. Don't be a stranger - let's get together and jam sometime :)
Hi Anne, thanks for your kind words. Sounds great, very cinematic. I was down in Baltimore for the jazz festival this summer. I'll let you know if we have plans to hit the road again. If you want a laugh, be sure to check out the 'faux Ed Sullivan' video on my page (wait for the twist!). All the best. Rich
yes, april would be cool - let's do something! - like bob says, i'm ready to go anywhere. i guess we should probably rehearse or something - i know it's a nutty idea! - they call me a visionary. and please send me your address - i'll mail my new book to you. remember the bob show at the ballpark in 2006? you gave me your address then written on a tiny slip of paper - i treasured that slip of paper! - i walked around about three inches off the ground when that slip of paper was in my pocket. then after a couple of months i decided i needed to put that slip of paper somewhere safe - oh yeah, i put it somewhere safe - 100% safe - in fact, it's so safe that if you walked into my kitchen, put a hundred dollar bill on the table, and said, "chris, find that slip of paper," i wouldn't be able to find it! so please give me your address again - but send it in a message - don't put it in a comment - apparently, there are some unbalanced folks on myspace and you shouldn't put your address where just anyone could see it - at least, that's what i've been told.
ooh candy machine is in your friends list. i forgot they are from baltimore. i haven't thought of them for a long time. they were one of my favorite bands of the 90s.
bob was fantastic - i totally love him and his music. the setlist was totally solid. of course, his voice is completely blown out on the trail - but i don't care - to me, his voice is like the ruins of a cathedral on a dark and lonesome night with bats flying out of the shattered stained glass windows.
