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General Info
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Genre: Folk / Indie / Melodramatic Popular Song
Location BROOKLYN, Un
Profile Views: 124115
Last Login: 8/30/2011
Member Since 6/26/2008
Website girlsintroublemusic.com
Record Label independent
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
Orchestral art-pop about androgynous storm demons, jealous sisters and knife accidents: this is the world of Half You Half Me, the second album in Girls in Trouble's ongoing song-cycle, was released on JDub Records, May 17 2011.................... Bandleader Alicia Jo Rabins is a Brooklyn-based poet, songwriter, biblical scholar and violinist. Girls in Trouble began as a way to get out of writing her masters thesis and developed into a full band that has toured together across America and Europe. Alicia wrote Half You Half Me on an acoustic guitar in the tiny apartment she shares with husband/bassist Aaron Hartman (Old Time Relijun, K Records), who helped transform the album's songs into their full gorgeousness: intimate vocals surrounded by electric guitars, big drums, analog synths, and Alicia's intricate violin arrangements.................... Girls in Trouble is Alicia's cycle of first-person songs based on obscure stories of Biblical women, investigating the hidden places where their complicated lives overlap with hers. Half You Half Me retains the emotional vulnerability and poetic focus of Girls in Trouble's self-titled debut while broadening the band's sound into eclectic, atmospheric landscapes. -
Members
Please write the band directly at girlsintroublemusic@gmail.com!.......... The extended Girls in Trouble family past and present includes or has included: Alicia Jo Rabins, Aaron Hartman, Elaina Morgan, David Freeman, Tim Monaghan, Jascha Hoffman, Jonathan Vincent.................... Appearing on HALF YOU HALF ME: Alicia Jo Rabins, Aaron Hartman, Elaina Morgan, Jonathan Vincent, David Freeman, Colette Alexander, Matt Boynton, Curtis Hasselbring. -
Influences
Leonard Cohen, Laurie Anderson, Nina Nastasia, Owen Pallett, Tommy Jarrell, Brigitte Fontaine, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Carla Kihlstedt, Emily Dickinson, John Adams, Hazel Dickens, Euripides -
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May 17
14th Street Y Theatre
NY, NY
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Mixing Girls In Trouble
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10 Songs | Oct 27, 2009
OFFICIAL BIO:
A classically trained violinist since the age of three, Alicia grew up practicing Bach and sneaking out to Baltimore punk shows. She began touring at eighteen, when she fell in love with traditional fiddle music, then traveled to Jerusalem to immerse herself in a new realm-- the study of ancient languages and texts. For two years, she absorbed the stories and rituals of the Torah and Kabbalah. Returning to the States, Alicia attempted to resume her regular life, but found herself haunted still by the ancient stories she had encountered in her studies-- especially those of Biblical women.
Realizing their stories echoed with the traditional ballads she loved, Alicia began writing her first songs, taking these Biblical women as her subjects. As she composed, harmonizing quietly into her laptop so as not to wake her roommates, Alicia's love of American folk and underground rock fused indelibly with her knowledge of the Hebrew Bible: Girls in Trouble was born.
When bassist Aaron Hartman (Old Time Relijun, K Records) overheard Alicia describing the project in a Brooklyn bar, he introduced himself, and soon became an integral part of Girls in Trouble. Alicia wrote, arranged, sang the songs, and performed the string parts, but it was Aaron who expanded Girls in Trouble into a full band. Three months before the release of their debut album, Alicia and Aaron wed; since then, the full band has toured across the US and Europe, sleeping on floors and playing a range of venues, from The Smell in Los Angeles to the Great Synagogue in Stockholm, Sweden.
Girls in Trouble recorded their newest album at Vacation Island Studios in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with wunderkind engineer Matt Boynton. Half You Half Me retains the emotional vulnerability and poetic focus of Girls in Trouble's self-titled debut while broadening the band's sound into eclectic, atmospheric landscapes. In the first album, the women were quiet heroes; on Half You Half Me, ambiguous stories deepen, twist, and blossom into the complex terrain between right and wrong, between you and me.
About the Band:
Member Since:
June 26, 2008..Members:
Alicia Jo Rabins, Aaron Hartman,