Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau includes, but is not limited to:
Mr. Huxley Vertical (Seth Bedford), bandleader,
composer, chanteur, accordion.
Mr. Brenton Scrawl (Mike Darnell), contrabass, direction, antics.
Lady Perpetua (Suzanne Lipkin), violin, boa.
Mr. Gill Sans (Kai Gross), violin, mandolin, general suaveness.
Lucida Console (L.B.J. McIntire), viola.
Bernhard Modern (Adam Levine), trumpet, random things to hit.
Mistress Rage Italic (Jessica Stewart) piano, toy piano.
...and sometimes includes: Braggadocio (Daniel Baer), violin Mme. Arial Black (Kamala Sankaram), accodion and coloratura soprano
Influences
Kurt Weill, Weimar Cabaret, tango, Ute Lemper, Annie Lennox, The Eurythmics, The Decemberists, T.A.T.U., Tom Waits, Suzanne Vega, The Magnetic Fields, Dolly Parton, The Asylum Street Spankers, Tosca Tango Orchestra, The Tiger Lilies, Benjamin Britten, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Karla Manzur, The Dresden Dolls, Philip Glass, Bernard Hermann, Michael Nyman, Blonde Redhead, Sam Philips, ABBA, Antonio Vivaldi, J.S. Bach, Ben Charest, k.d. lang, Claude Debussy, Eric Satie, Les Tetes Raides, Franciose Hardy, Lionel Belasco, and some others who I will think of later...
Sounds Like
the 20's meet the 80's in a classy cocktail lounge. They chat, laugh, hit it off really well. Then they go back to his place for a few drinks. Of course, we all know what "a few drinks" at his place really means. Anyway, a few months later Huxley Vertical is born. Oh, and he never called her after that.
Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau was founded in 2005 in Austin, TX. Eventually, singer/multi-instrumentalist/composer Seth Bedford relocated to NYC and reestablished the ensemble in its current lineup of two violins, viola, bass, piano, trumpet, accordion, and voice, with sometimes mandolin, toy piano, and other instruments.
The band has since released its first full-length album, Huxley Vertical Cabaret Nouveau and frequently performs at New York City's Duplex Cabaret Theatre. Musically, Huxley Vertical is a combination of French chanson, Weimar kabarett and American Jazz and vaudeville for a sound uniquely antique and modern at the same time. The band lists the likes of Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Tom Waits, The Dresden Dolls, Kurt Weill and Eurythmics among its primary influences.
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