In Photographic order top to bottom:
Jazer Giles - on 'stachenkeys
Matt Lorenz - brother of kate
Zak Trojano - the bearded wonder
Kate Lorenz - keeping the boys in check
Influences
many and varied
Sounds Like
if you're into the name game, we sound like a cross between tom waits and joni mitchell. . . or. . . honky rock. dirty kids with badminton guitars. a backyard hootinanny. a 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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OFF & ON ~ Rusty Belle from CTD3 on Vimeo.
dear belles - 'twas an honor to be at your first collective manhattan show! such ear-and-soul-pleasing delights you put forth, too. don't be strangers - we like you here!
Hey guys, had fun last night, Kate thanks for the drink! Hope I wasn't being too much of a drunken birthday boy and interrupting your set. If so sorry. I just remember singing backup to your sit down jam and probably singing bad. ooops... haha... Love you all!
It's juliana from circus and sunday mornings. My band is playing at the elevens this friday ohhhh lets say around 11:00. You should come. (howl.stomp.shake. )
I thought Matty was going to have too get Gankstar last night at the OPen mic. You guys know I gots ya back if some crazy old dude wants too pop off. LoL its all love ....but for real that guy was insane in the membrain.
jazer & co.- i finally got myself out of bed early enough on a sunday morning to catch your set at amherst coffee. it was great. so good in fact, that i'll go back again
thanks for the add---I..m Gabe..s dad--thungs-outch.Love your music.Maybe we could arrange acoustic concert at the lenard house. check out kelticgrasshopper
happy st pattys day! Yall sound wonderful in these wee clips. i'm planning on a rusty belle performance at the wedding (?!?!?!) -- when it will be, i dont know. next winter sometime - any thoughts beyond that from the amity street contingent? Hope you're spring-kissed over there. gimme a call
Aaaahh... that's the sweet sound of a continuous exhale that started on Sunday morning at the first notes of a Rusty Belle jam. My soul is peacefully tapping its toes now and it's all your fault. Thanks for the hospitality over the weekend! I'm looking forward to the next time I hear you crazy cats wail.
I am returning to my snowy home in Portland on the twenty first for medeski on the twenty second and low and behold I will be treated to your awesomeness. See you at Blue.
