On Timessqashrine -- Lo Galluccio vocals, James "Bones" Tomaselli, arrangement, engineering, instrumentation, samples
Spell on You -- Geoffrey Dana Hicks piano, Lo Galluccio, vocals
Being Visited -- Various, Roy Nathanson, soprano sax, Miki Navasio, guitar, Brad Jones, bass, Mike Evans, drums
On "Mona Lisa/Mozart's Wife video" Lo Galluccio, vocals. Josh Klein, keyboard
Also see www.myspace.com/lgalluccio for more information on Lo Galluccio's new book, SARASOTA VII.
Influences
I've been influenced by mentors Roy Nathanson (Jazz Passengers), Dave Tronzo (co-writer of Creamsplit and Feel Like, plus many other unpublished songs -- with whom I had a band, FishPistol); startled and marveled by the likes of Mary Margaret O'Hara, Syd Straw, Shawn Colvin, Bjork, the Velvet Underground, Rosanne Cash, Emmy Lou Harris, Billie Holiday, Cibo Matto, and it goes on...recently by friend Julian Summerhill, Luna and Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man -- film version artistically directed by another influence, producer Hal Willner.
However I grew up listening to Cher and Jesus Christ Superstar because my parents wouldn't let me listen to much else until I found Prince's Dirty Mind, and fortunately, they couldn't understand the lyrics with the hypnotic bass pounding covered the coolest dirty lyrics I'd ever heard. Prince definitely changed my life...especially Head, Uptown and Sister. He blew boo every taboo.
Sounds Like
I don't know, read Vin Scelsa's review on my website...for Being Visited. Spell on You was captured best by Rob Hill on cdBaby. Different times, different voice, different records. I hope I sound like who I am and what I'm singing and if I've written what I'm singing all the more so. Roy taught me you get hooked on that, but I like singing covers too. Spell on You is a hybrid record of a gospel/jazz pianist and an avant-garde sensibility in me. I like shifts in the music. The 4-track recordings in Being Visited are all mine, like using a black and white camera, that texture mixed with the live band arrangements. I'd listened to Patti Smith's Horses many times and maybe I had something like that in mind but more ethereal, more low-tech. I'm lucky I got to produce both cds so I don't think they sound like anybody else really.
Lo Galluccio is a vocal artist and writer whose 2nd cd "Spell on You" was released in Boston in 2003. Her first solo cd, "Being Visited" debuted on the Knitting Factory label in 1997 to critical acclaim, especially from NY dj Vin Scelsa, who called it "Mysterious, seductive, surreal and spacey."
Her latest band project, "Leda's Swan" featured Will DiMartino on electric guitar and Garageband arrangements, and Lou Rossi on touch guitar.
Born in Boston, Galluccio studied acting at the Theatre School at DePaul (in John C. Reilly's time.) After an internship at the Alley Theatre, Galluccio was nominated for a Princess Grace Fellowship for excellence in acting. She crossed paths with the now infamous Lewis Black (TV and stage comedian) whose brainchild "Czar of Rock and Roll" she played in as Lupe Wallenda at its second stage in Houston, TX. She then moved to the Lower East Side of NY after a tour of Greece with a LaMama production to be "where the weed trees grow" and met band leader Roy Nathanson in a laundromat.
He played on her first fully realized tune, "Queen of Mars" dedicated to her late father Tony Galluccio, a labor lawyer and Italian immigrant who died when she was 15. Both Lo and Tony graduated from Harvard College. Lo's first major gig in NY as a singer was in a band called Fish Pistol with Dave Tronzo, Roy Nathanson, Brad Jones and various drummers. She was mentored to write poems by Lawrence Joseph (Shouting at No One, Lawyerland.) In 2004, her first poetry book, "Hot Rain" was released on Singing Bone Press in Somerville, MA. In 1999 she finally got to meet one of her idols in the music world, Patti Smith, at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's and was thrilled to have the saint of rock and roll say she had a "beautiful voice." Spell on You is available on www.cdbaby.com. In 2008, her memoir, Sarasota VII, a 57 page prose poem in 2 parts, will be released on Cervena Barva Press. (See www.myspace.com/lgalluccio for further details.
Lovely to hear from you; thanks so much, I am glad you enjoyed the issue! What part of Maine will you be visiting? My grandmother was from Maine, though not the coast...
Please tell me more about your new chapbook! Congratulations! :)
Lo darlin', if you really want to know me ... who I was and am today, it's all explained in the words written on my blog. "Sector 3", "Sara", "Night Cries, Day Tears", "We Were War Pigs", "Iris of the Night", "An Average Citizen", "The Alcoholic's Creed", "Who Am I", "The Heat is On" ... are just a few pieces that come from the annals of my Life's story. Enjoy the read! ~Mark
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"Sara, my love ... my breath, my life, my being. My air, my existence, my reason. My purpose, my sanity, my teasing. My faith, my hope, my season. My sight, my wisdom, my pleasing. My passion, my hate, my treason ... forever more, forever amore. Sara, my love."
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