Jazer Giles - aka Teddy Manhole
Matt Lorenz - aka Tony Stones
Zak Trojano - aka Handy MacFeelson
Kate Lorenz - aka Rita Rockit
Influences
many and varied
"...One of the more interesting bands to come into my periphery in a while... They're a little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll, a little bit old-timey and a whole lotta weird. But in a good way. This quartet mashes genres as if they were tasty little sonic potatoes. "
-Dan Bolles
Seven Days
Burlington, VT 2-13-08
Sounds Like
a convergence of several styles. Not a knew genre, but a fresh approach. Whatever the flavor we decide to mix up, we try to keep it honest. . . . . We 're dirty kids with badminton guitars making a backyard hootinanny. We're the front yard lemonade stand in deep summer. a middle yard secret meeting in the clubhouse under the rhododendrons with cookpot helmets and broomstick getaways.
looks like just the mess you'd want to stumble upon in an attic.
smells like a funky cheese, tastes like a funky cheese.
feels like a woozy waltz or a stompy spin.
Rusty Belle hails from that town of abounding academia, Amherst, Massachusetts; where the faces are young
and the rent is cheap. Here they have concocted their strange and intoxicating musical brew, nurtured their wild and
hairy live show, and built a following of loyal, almost devout, fans and friends.
Matt and Kate Lorenz sing together with the intuitive harmony of siblings. Growing up in rural Vermont, they played,
and arranged music together; Matt on the violin, and saxophone with Kate saddling up to the piano, flute in hand.
Kate went on to study literature and sing with a voice that “siphons emotion from the cellar of a melody.” Kate can
sing you what a song is made of. Matt attended that enigma of education, Hampshire College, where he pursued a
vast area of music; from jazz to junk to noise to folk, along with adaptive musical instrument design. There he began
building his extensive repertoire of original songs while strengthening his voice and style.
Zak Trojano and Jazer Giles also spent their formative years under the same roof. Serendipitously, they were paired
as roommates their freshman year at Skidmore College. They’ve been playing music together for almost ten years
now!! With formal educations in jazz performance and improvisation, they bring to the group their subtle sensibilities
and flashy facilities. Zak has rhythm in his blood. Hailing from the hills of New Hampshire, he learned to drum from
his father, who learned from his father before. Zak also took to the guitar and piano in college, composing a rock
opera for his diploma. Jazer started his piano studies at the tender age of three and has been at it ever since. The
accordion came not much later from a childhood spent sleeping under tables at folk festivals and contradances.
In the fall of 2005 these two pairs convened in Massachusetts. They arrived broke from the streets of Barcelona
and California, stumbled from downtown apartments, and moved into an old white schoolhouse with six other
artists and performers. The vitality of this creative environment mixed with their personal musical histories and
produced a new material that none of them had anticipated. It smelled like folk, acoustic and rooted, but leaned
a little more towards tomorrow than yesterday. They swagger between raw blues, tiny tangos, country waltzes and
backyard symphonies. Sometimes a walk with the Roma, a twisted tale in metered time, or a yell-along-after-dinner
drunken opera. A dance band that tries to tie your shoes together. The music is littered with dented paint cans,
smashed up trashcan lids, old hacksaw blades, and broken glass. Like junkyard songbirds, they sing sweet through
all the rubbage.
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Sup Belle, I vowed never too post flyers for my shows on other peoples comments blogs, but I wanted too tell you about the Freak Folk band Samuel Jackson whom will be playing on September the 11th at the Elevens at about 11 or maybe 10. Mucho Love- Garrett
Who: The Paige Capo What: Introducing their newest model, "The Clik" When: Summer NAMM 2009 Where: Nashville, Tennessee. Booth 1406. Why: Because you asked for it.
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