A spiced up duo: EMIL LAGER (Vocals, lead guitar, solo guitar, bas, piano)................SARA LEWERTH (Vocals, tambourine)
..................... and guest artist like Pablo Ibarluzea! (and Lovisa Lindström on our most recent album "best of").
Influences
Bob Dylan, Dr Dre, Outkast, Cornelis, Guns ’n’ Roses, Nick Cave, Hound Dog Taylor, Christian Dam, Charlie Chaplin, Astrid Lindgren, August Strindberg, Ruiz Záfon, Jimi Hendrix, all the bad people making us feel oblliged to write music to change them and all the good people!
COME OUT AND PARTY WITH ME!!! J RockA and Sarai Knowledge performing live! The must be at spot... definitely an event you won't wanna miss!!!
Friday, November 6, 2009 7pm-11pm City Hall, San Francisco "Where Hip Hop Meets Couture" A historical evening of high couture fashion show infused with hip-hop,live performances, and music/fashion professionals...
Meet in greets with the likes of Ed Hardy, The Source Magazine, Warner Bros., Interscope Records, and more...
$40 / $100 VIP includes admission to the official afterparty at Club 525 11:30pm - 2:30pm 525 Howard St., San Francisco
Limited presale tickets available online at airbornetickets.com Or if you're a local,tickets are available at Gussie's Chicken & Waffles 1521 Eddy St. in the heart of the historical Fillmore jazz district... Come down for some good ol' soul food!
Would love to see your beautiful faces :-) Hit me up if your going!! And if you're not in the SF area, check out show updates on my website at www.justbetrue.com for live events at a town near you!!!
Give thanks for your support xoxo Sending love and wishing you infinite abundance... Sarai
Soooo excited to share with you the new record about the drop, JUST BE The EP. I just posted the featured single "Bump The Beat" produced by 2009 Grammy winning producer for Lil Wayne's "Mr.Carter", Drew Correa. Track is fiyah!!! Check out my website at www.justbetrue.com to sample/buy the EP and for shows, photos, and updates.
Give thanks for your friendship and support and for letting conscious independent hip hop flow through you blastin loud through your speakers!
To Release isn't to forget, not to think about, or ignore. It doesn't leave feelings of anger, jealousy, or regret. It's not about pride and it's not obsessing or dwelling on the past. It's not about giving in or giving up. To let go is to cherish the memories, but to overcome and move on. Letting go is learning and experiencing and growing. To release is to be thankful for the experiences that made you laugh, made you cry, and made you grow. It's about all that you have, all that you had, and all that you will soon gain. Letting go is releasing and having the courage to accept change, and the strength to keep moving. It is realizing that the heart can sometimes be the most potent remedy. To let go is to open a door, and to clear a path and set yourself free---
Scandimaniacs, remember that it's easy to let go when holding on hurts so bad--so free yourself from all these expectations and just be :-) Hope you find the unity in my new single "Release" feat. JRockA.
Stay creative and stay connected!! Hope all is utmost blessed and irie to da fullest :-) Your friendship and love is greatly appreciated.
Clever, ironic, passionate and with a hint of indescribable genius, Scandimanics will make you feel like a fly caught in a spider web, only for them to advance in for the kill and at the last minute pull out an ice cream to give to you instead.
In their new show, Take Me To Hollywood, Emil Lager and Sara Lewerth manage to skate across the surface of two very different planes; on the one hand they are beautiful statuesque playmates, beckoning to you to come and join them in their childish walks of fantasy, on the other they are alert predators ready at any moment to pounce and devour you whole. It is as though two assassins have entered Eurovision and whilst this makes for a slightly unsettling evening, it also means that you are completely at the mercy of these undeniably compelling performers in an event which defies anything predictable to remain throughout a veritable feast of surprise.
They helter skelter through an eclectic mix of songs including a sexy number about stupid politicians, a promiscuous love ballad inspired by Ingmar Bergman and a wonderfully make shift parody of that cheesiest of all Celine Dion songs 'I will go on' utilising a small plastic boat and a lot of very silly and impressive improvisation. They delight in trying to trip each other up as they play off one another with glee in a relationship which rather resembles that of two very virtuoso monkey siblings; 'come and play with us' they demand quite forcefully, but only so that no one feels left out you understand.
For all this energetic clowning, there is strangely a lot of silence in this piece, in the middle of the whirlwind Lager and Lewerth are confident just to look and wait when they want to, piercing gazes questioning just before they leap once again into entertaining action. This is one indicator of the razor sharp focus which cuts through their performance with an intense poise and particularity meaning that however made up on the spot some of this show is it is never messy; this fierce control reassures us into following them down into their anarchic rabbit hole and emerge safely on the other side however off kilter we may feel on the way.
I've not been to the Blue Elephant Theatre for quite some time so it was good to go back.
There is a nice, roomy bar area that usually has some current artwork to enjoy and - most importantly - an excellent theatre space. I've not been for a while as the theatre has been predominantly presenting productions with short runs and I don't want to review something that is the best show in town only to have to tell readers not to miss it a week after it has gone!
But now there is a show with a longer run that I was much intrigued to see: Take Me To Hollywood, performed by Scandimaniacs, a Swedish duo made up of Emil Lager and Sara Lewerth.
The press release said it was 'cabaret, music, improvisation, absurd, pretentious…' How could I not be intrigued? The press release also said 'it's very hard to describe.'
Take Me To Hollywood is a cheesy spoof parody of rock stardom and fame. They send themselves up while taking swipes at all the big names of showbiz. It is a spectacle of music, dance and drama as we are led through the career and back catalogue of Scandimaniacs - The second best band in the world.
Emil Lager looks like what you would get if you put Johnny Depp and Leo Di Caprio into the Large Hadron Collider and smashed them into each other at the speed of light. Sara Lewerth has her own allure; Swedish and blonde for a start. But these are more than mere treats for the eye, he is an excellent guitarist and she can sing, and both have a terrific sense of comic timing.
They reference some of the greats as personal and musical influences: Johhny Cash, Bob Dylan, Thierry Henry. There is a brilliant piece on the French and a great send up of Titanic where they got the crowd involved in making waves. There are songs with a message, political songs, hip hop with an invisible rapper, rock and roll and all performed with tongues wedged
NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR « Sa voix ahurissante est déjà en train d'en faire la coqueluche des amateurs de Soul. » Gérard Arnaud, 5 février 2009
LE 24 AVRIL AU PRINTEMPS DE BOURGES - 18:30 SCENE PRESSION LIVE
FRANCE INFO « Présence évidente, voix rauque et profonde, mélodies épurées, c'est le cocktail gagnant... Une très très belle découverte. » Christophe Richert, 17 septembre 2008
LA TERRASSE « Attention, coup de foudre assuré... Un artiste d’exception. A star is born. » Jean-Luc Caradec, Février 2009
Greetings Fam!!! Hope all is utmost blessed and irie to da fullest :-) Please come check out a new callabo track I just posted entitled "Been So Long"....
I give thanks for the connection. Much respect from the JUST BE Family and always wishing you infinite abundance...
I love your humour and your way of expressing love in purity i dunno how you found me but nice meeting you and thanks for your friendship.Keep on the good music in good spirits as you are...
Ja, det hade ju varit skitkul! Imorgon är jag på radio i P3 kl. 20:30 i ett program som heter "Personligt" och pratar om relationer och musik. Delar av mina låtar kommer att spelas också. Efter att programmet har sänts så går det att lyssna på P3:s hemsida om ni inte skulle råka vara i Sverige förstås.
Jag lirar trummmaskinen! Känns fett! Har min första tentamen nu. Kommer dock att spika den! Härligt att ni spelar och har det bra. Drar till gbg i morgon för att spela tamburin med them jacks samt hänga veckan ut med Fanny och polarna.
Hej! Kom till Stockholm i förrgår, skolan börjar på måndag. Är lite nervös men det är skönt att äntligen få börja. Jag har två nya låtar på gång, de ska bara finslipas så jag hoppas få upp dem på myspace snart. Vad är det för ny turné ni ska göra? Kram
