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Stormy Laughter

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General Info

  • Genre: Experimental / Folk / Lyrical

    Location NEW YORK/ Paris/DC/Kraków, Un

    Profile Views: 18425

    Last Login: 9/18/2012

    Member Since 5/7/2006

    Website www.vimeo.com/stormgarner

    Record Label Find me a label and I'll bless your first-born!

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    Stormy Laughter creates abruptly genuine, playful songs for wanderlust-ridden youths, disgruntled professors, prodigal cats, and our wide-minded kin in further dimensions. All nourished on raw food, they yawn and bare their shiny little teeth in Storm's unpredictable voice, usually accompanied by Thin at the piano or on the accordion. Storm, an American-born, Parisian-raised, classically trained violinist and academic extraordinaire turned experimental theater actress, composer, free-improv musician, writer and singer, will gently pluck back the eaves of your soul and plant there, with the aid of her ferociously flippant songs, the germinating seeds of true levity. Beware. ... ..... .... ,,,,, ...... ,,,,, ,,,, .... ........,,,, ,,,,,,,,. .., ,,.,,. ,..., .. "Laughter, whether conciliatory or terrible, always occurs when some fear passes. It indicates liberation either from danger or from the grip of logic." -Theodor Adorno. ........ ..... ....... ....... ....... ..... ...... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. .. ... .. . ... ... ... .. .... ... ... .. For slightly more outlandish Stormy Laughter music, please visit E Stormy Laughter, you will find the link below in "top friends"..,,.,..; !!!,,,!!! .................................. .. .. .. .. .. ..Promote Stormy Laughter.. .... .. ........How I made my profile:..

  • Members

    Stormish. Storm Garner, that is. And her pet Giraffe. Sometimes also her violin Zelinda (born in Prague in 1925). I am grateful to my previous collaborators: Jonathan Vincent (piano, accordion, free improving, some arrangements, patience, USA), Paul Schneiter (drums on a version of Serengeti, sound-engineer in Paris), Aurélien Barbelosi (guitar on a version of Xanadu, Paris), Ryan Snow (trombone, live in NYC in Cows and Moons, free improving, good advice) AND I AM CURRENTLY SEARCHING FOR NYC-BASED MUSICIANS TO COLLABORATE WITH! Please contact me if interested in joining in on the Stormy Laughter fun! For booking or any other business that might like to expand beyond the confines of myspace messaging boxes or that might want answering before this time next month, please email Storm/management at: stormylaughter@gmail.com

  • Influences

    Phil Ochs; George Gershwin; Björk; Leonard Cohen; Nico; Velvet Underground; Bob Dylan; Portishead; Radiohead; Animal Collective; Fiona Apple; Joanna Newsom; Yoko Ono; Scott Walker; IAM ; Tricky; Kate Bush; Elliot Smith; Nick Drake; Magnetic Fields; Carl Orff; Bulat Okudzava; Sibelius; Borodin; Arvo Pärt; Joni Mitchell; Henryk M. Górecki; Kapelaze-wsi-Warsza-wa; Stereolab; Aphex Twin; Eminem; Billie Holiday; Krishna Das; Paul Simon; Sigur Ros; Blue Man Group; Philip Glass; David Hykes; Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev; Keith Jarrett; Citizen Cope; Devendra Banhart; Orlando di Lasso; J. S. Bach; Georges Moustaki; Paris métro music; Carl Stalling Loony Tunes music; klezmer; Balkan folk music; Breton Celtic folk music; Edith Piaf; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; whoever wrote the song "Heffalumps and Woosels" in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day Clyfford Still; William de Kooning; Francis Bacon; Alexander Calder; Edward Hopper; T. S. Eliot; Joseph Conrad; Nabokov; Kierkegaard; Goethe; Bertolt Brecht; Bertrand Russell; Plato; Edward Gorey; Aristotle; Boris Vian; Rainer Maria Rilke; Simone de Beavoir; Euclid; the Hirshhorn museum; circuses; the disenfranchised residents of Washington DC; real live people (yes, you too!), plants, other life-forms, food (raw and organic), places, magic rocks; the unknown.

  • Sounds Like

    The songs that fly around in your head when you've just realized you're not dead. That's literally what they are. Other people's opinions: Alex: the lovechild of Nico and Tom Waitts. Mathilde: Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich, Bertolt Brecht, the whole trio, mostly in reference to the Cows and Moons song, I think. Joey: a less-depressed Joanna Newsom. Mama: as varied and randomly poetic as Bob Dylan. Thank you Mama. Joni Mitchell? Who said Janis Joplin? Someone... Oh and then there are the amanda Palmer/ Dresden Dolls comparisons, probably due to the theatricality of my performances. Emily and Sasha: the Beatles, but that was for "Go out and Play," my pop song (no kidding) which has not yet been officially recorded... Nice comparison, though, no? That's what friends are for... Oh and I've heard Regina Spektor too, and PJ Harvey somehow. And Bjork. But all that's really vague. Funny how when you think about it, everything new we experience, we experience through things we already are familiar with. Seems we can't do it any other way...

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  • Elise in Furs

    When are you guys making it out to Seattle?

    3 years ago
  • Elise in Furs

    Love the new material.

    3 years ago
  • EluKtRick

    czesc Storm.
    Jak sie Masz?

    3 years ago
  • neptuna

    oh my goodness, this new version of "tongue in cheek" is absolutely amazing. bravo! please please play this for me live, even if only a cappella when i see you in ny! (it's safer, after all..)

    ps. me owning a cd-r of your music is a must. prepare yourself for my future begging.

    3 years ago
  • The Nerve Institute

    I left a long and dazzlingly articulate comment, no doubt given the breath of life my incredible wit and a patina of burnished bronze by the communicable aura of my scathing male beauty, and then the internet ate it, so here it is in miniature: was in New York. Though about trying to contact you. Didn't. Got drunk. Probably should have.

    3 years ago
  • neptuna


    stormy, this reminds me of you.

    ps. my brother is moving to the big city! you two must meet and greet.

    4 years ago
  • Jonah Rank

    Hey Storm! This is really interesting stuff! Perhaps at some point we should collaborate.

    4 years ago
  • Thymn Chase

    Hey Storm? How are you? Any plans on coming to Krakow this year?
    chow

    4 years ago
  • The Nerve Institute

    Well thanx very much. "Amazing" is perhaps going a little far on my score, but I'm glad you enjoy something in it!

    And yes ma'am, Scott's a definite influence--I think "Clara" from _The Drift_ is a complete masterpiece, though I never can seem to listen to the whole rekord at one go. "The Seventh Seal" and "The Old Man's Back Again" are both tracks to which I constantly return when in need of inspiration.

    As per New Yorrick: yes indeed, I'd like to visit again and it's not inconceivable that I'd live there for at least a while. As one of those deconstructionist literary critics who are destroying society, corrupting good Christian morals, and so on, I pretty much either have to live there eventually or book it on out to Europe. I'd like very much to work with G.K. Spivak at Columbia, although I'd also like very much to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollarz to do so . . . .

    4 years ago
  • neptuna

    storm! my beautiful songbird, i miss you so dearly. the deadbeats came down and we spent a day at the river and spoke fondly of you often. my boyfriend and i are planning a trip through new york (the city and upstate) in the fall...i would love to stop by and sing songs with you til dawn!

    4 years ago
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Bio:

Stormy Laughter creates abruptly genuine, playful songs for wanderlust-ridden youths, disgruntled professors, prodigal cats, and our wide-minded kin in further dimensions. All nourished on raw food, they yawn and bare their shiny little teeth in Storm's unpredictable voice, usually accompanied by Thin at the piano or on the accordion. Storm, an American-born, Parisian-raised, classically trained violinist and academic extraordinaire turned experimental theater actress, composer, free-improv musician, writer and singer, will gently pluck back the eaves of your soul and plant there, with the aid of her ferociously flippant songs, the germinating seeds of true levity. Beware. ... ..... .... ,,,,, ...... ,,,,, ,,,, .... ........,,,, ,,,,,,,,. .., ,,.,,. ,...,
"Laughter, whether conciliatory or terrible, always occurs when some fear passes. It indicates liberation either from danger or from the grip of logic." -Theodor Adorno. ........ ..... ....... ....... ....... ..... ...... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. .. ... .. . ... ... ... .. .... ... ...
For slightly more outlandish Stormy Laughter music, please visit E Stormy Laughter, you will find the link below in "top friends"..,,.,..; !!!,,,!!!
Promote Stormy Laughter ..

How I made my profile:

Member Since:

May 07, 2006

Members:

Stormish. Storm Garner, that is. And her pet Giraffe. Sometimes also her violin Zelinda (born in Prague in 1925). I am grateful to my previous collaborators: Jonathan Vincent (piano, accordion, free improving, some arrangements, patience, USA), Paul Schneiter (drums on a version of Serengeti, sound-engineer in Paris), Aurélien Barbelosi (guitar on a version of Xanadu, Paris), Ryan Snow (trombone, live in NYC in Cows and Moons, free improving, good advice) AND I AM CURRENTLY SEARCHING FOR NYC-BASED MUSICIANS TO COLLABORATE WITH! Please contact me if interested in joining in on the Stormy Laughter fun! For booking or any other business that might like to expand beyond the confines of myspace messaging boxes or that might want answering before this time next month, please email Storm/management at: stormylaughter@gmail.com

Influences:

Phil Ochs; George Gershwin; Björk; Leonard Cohen; Nico; Velvet Underground; Bob Dylan; Portishead; Radiohead; Animal Collective; Fiona Apple; Joanna Newsom; Yoko Ono; Scott Walker; IAM ; Tricky; Kate Bush; Elliot Smith; Nick Drake; Magnetic Fields; Carl Orff; Bulat Okudzava; Sibelius; Borodin; Arvo Pärt; Joni Mitchell; Henryk M. Górecki; Kapelaze-wsi-Warsza-wa; Stereolab; Aphex Twin; Eminem; Billie Holiday; Krishna Das; Paul Simon; Sigur Ros; Blue Man Group; Philip Glass; David Hykes; Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev; Keith Jarrett; Citizen Cope; Devendra Banhart; Orlando di Lasso; J. S. Bach; Georges Moustaki; Paris métro music; Carl Stalling Loony Tunes music; klezmer; Balkan folk music; Breton Celtic folk music; Edith Piaf; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; whoever wrote the song "Heffalumps and Woosels" in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day Clyfford Still; William de Kooning; Francis Bacon; Alexander Calder; Edward Hopper; T. S. Eliot; Joseph Conrad; Nabokov; Kierkegaard; Goethe; Bertolt Brecht; Bertrand Russell; Plato; Edward Gorey; Aristotle; Boris Vian; Rainer Maria Rilke; Simone de Beavoir; Euclid; the Hirshhorn museum; circuses; the disenfranchised residents of Washington DC; real live people (yes, you too!), plants, other life-forms, food (raw and organic), places, magic rocks; the unknown.

Sounds Like:

The songs that fly around in your head when you've just realized you're not dead. That's literally what they are. Other people's opinions: Alex: the lovechild of Nico and Tom Waitts. Mathilde: Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich, Bertolt Brecht, the whole trio, mostly in reference to the Cows and Moons song, I think. Joey: a less-depressed Joanna Newsom. Mama: as varied and randomly poetic as Bob Dylan. Thank you Mama. Joni Mitchell? Who said Janis Joplin? Someone... Oh and then there are the amanda Palmer/ Dresden Dolls comparisons, probably due to the theatricality of my performances. Emily and Sasha: the Beatles, but that was for "Go out and Play," my pop song (no kidding) which has not yet been officially recorded... Nice comparison, though, no? That's what friends are for... Oh and I've heard Regina Spektor too, and PJ Harvey somehow. And Bjork. But all that's really vague. Funny how when you think about it, everything new we experience, we experience through things we already are familiar with. Seems we can't do it any other way...

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Find me a label and I'll bless your first-born!

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