terra lopez-vocals, kaos pad, loop samples and fucked up noises.
dani fernandez-mpc 1000 + microkorg
genaro ulloa- juno, keys, piano, casio.
nicholas suhr-drums + percussion.
sometimes live member: chelsea wolfe-additional vocals and tamborine
please contact: sistercrayon1@gmail.com for booking information.
www.twitter.com/SisterCrayon
Influences
the past. and the figures that fit.
silence.
sad, sad songs.
late nights...
my cold room.
ice cubes.
tea cups.
basements.
Kyoto.
Pessoa, Genet, Plath, Rilke, Kerouac...
Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, CocoRosie, Bunny Rabbit + Black Cracker, Sigur Ros, Mum, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed, Anticon, Aaron Fowler, 50's music!, Elvis, early jazz (20's-50's!) Native Americans, Iceland, Flying Lotus, Beach House, the ladies of yesteryear, mothers, the things in between, and my mother-the bravest of the braves.
Sounds Like
like a fork and a spoon, we belong together.
or.
"a little trashy but still interesting!"-chelsea wolfe
"ill, like a hospital patient"-lucas johnson
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"i cant wait to hear what you will sound like in 20 years. " -beautiful woman.
"it's better than any drug i've ever taken"-steve vanoni
"music to make love to"-woman named tanya
"On “Holy (Or)der” Sister Crayon maximizes a sonic landscape of ethereal loops and twangy keyboards that evoke childhood music machines contrasted with Terra Lopez’s warm-deep-sad vocals (primarily words, occasionally pure instrumental sound). SC exists on that fine line of sadness and bliss, ever unstable, ever reaching across their driving methodic beats for sanctuary before the fadeout. Within every movement of their music “It’s so easy to get distracted,” endlessly as in the vocal loop delays. Lyrically on the track titled “(In) Reverse,” Lopez summarizes their sound: “The tragic, the triumph, the tragedy.” SC ascends from a collective sense of crisis—tragedy and triumph—the moment in which we anxiously look backwards in dealing with the culminating intensity driving us forward, but while playing Sister Crayon is both of these rising and falling actions simultaneously. Their music is everything sublime, the epitome of syncing failure and triumph together; the soundscape playing out before us as 2009"-Sacramento Underground Music Examiner.
"Sister Crayon is a young new up'n-comin' gal from Sacto blending the surreal folk/psych as if Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval dove into a stack of Wire mags and came up caked in New Weird pixiedust. A real sweet lilter!"
-Rick E. (KDVS)
""Lopez is dynamic.
Her lyrics, often honest, heartfelt pleas for reconciliation and
acceptance—“How we all fall in love with lavender / how we all fall in
love with liars,” she sings on the album’s second-to-last song,
“Lavender Liars”—hint at the aforementioned vulnerability. And the
beats—lo-fi drum-machine samples, odd instrumentations like looped
accordion—compliment this openness, rooted in trip-hop and no doubt
inspired by the sounds and scenery of her late-’90s teenage upbringing."
-Nick Miller (SN&R Margazine)
"Her comfort with exposing a part of herself is felt, and translates
well on stage. Her confidence is felt and heard. Her soothing angelic
voice soars and once again I am reminded how one can be moved deep
inside, how an artist can touch you and make chills run down your
spine. Sister Crayon does that."
-BayBridged.Com
"I admit I don't listen to much music that can be described as Acousmatic or Ghettotech, labels Sister Crayon uses on Myspace. However, I was a major label music scout not because I can name every sub-genre of music, but because I can pinpoint talent and potential for success, and I saw that special combination in Sister Crayon.
Vocalist Terra Lopez sounds like the love child of Portishead's Beth Gibbons and Mazzy Star's Hope Sandoval. Backing Lopez was a menagerie of musicians manning keys, synths, percussion, and guitar. The final product is a trip hop sound you can dance to or get it on to. Your pick." -The Examiner.com
Good seeing you all last night. Tell Danny that I will get her a copy of that Remix/Reprise CD next time I see her. It was great seeing you all play so damn good.
You guys played an freaking AMAZING! show tonight, i got to meet 2 of you, maybe next time i will meet the other 2 :) Keep up the awesome music i now can take it to go!
