SEVEN (7) DETROIT MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS 2009 ! NEW ALBUM 2009!
Playing Patti Smith's Meltdown with Patti and her band & Steve Earle, London, U.K., 2005, Carolyn then toured Italy & London in November 2006. Carolyn's been playing Midwest region, Canada, Europe next year. She released a CD/EP 2008 recorded w/co-producer STS. New Album 2009!!! Carolyn is blessed to have worked with friends Patti Smith, Jackson Smith, Scott Dailey, David McMurray, Joey Mazzola, Jason Schaller, Vinnie Dombrowski, Rayse Biggs, Mario Resto, The Ragbirds, John Madison -Detroit Symphony, Toko Shiiki/October Babies, Eimas, Seduce. Also past shows with Was (Not Was), Iggy & the Stooges, Ramones, The Slits, Johnny Thunders, and beautiful jazz musicians...Buster Marbury, Jervonny Collier, Kate Hart...
Discography
2008 CAROLYN STRIHO IS THIS ME?
2006 C. STRIHO (recorded live at 54 Sound/England and Italy)
2006 DETROIT MUSIC AWARDS COMPILATION w/HARD LESSONS, HOWLING DIABLOS
2005 PATTI SMITH, STEVE EARLE, CAROLYN STRIHO, live in London
2001 SECRETS AND SPACE w/DAVID MCMURRAY AND LUIS RESTO
1997 REMINISCING ABOUT THE FUTURE
1995 DREAMS CAN BE YOUR FRIENDS
Influences
Detroit, London, New York, Rome, Osaka; Bowie, Patti Smith, Bela Bartok, Freddie Brooks, Fred "Sonic" Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Iggy; Was (Not Was), Marianne Faithfull, Kirsty MacCall , Rastaman Vibrations, Sparks, Dead Kennedys, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Fela, Isley Brothers, Edward Satie, Lou Reed, Beth Orton; Morrison; Reed; RoxyMusic; Sly & Robbie; Grace Jones; Black Uhuru; Mark the Bird Fidrych; Johnny Cash; Mom's sun, Dad's courage, sister's spunk & Eastern Europe. Catcher in the Rye; Bell Jar; Geek Love; Garden of Eden; On the Road; Dance the Eagle to Sleep; Black Like Me; Tales of Beatnik Glory; Blake, Rimbaud, Yeats, di Prima; Wasteland; Babel; Baraka; Jean Miro, Frida Khalo; Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock; Basquiat; Warhol, Nin; Patty Izzo, Wizard of Oz, Apocalypse Now, Bladerunner, Sound of Music, La Belle de Jour, Last Tango in Paris; The Omega Man; Marnie
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Sounds Like
Gary Blackwell, Motor City Rocks: "Kudos to everyone involved in staging the Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith memorial show at the Magic Stick last Friday night, which celebrated Smith’s life and music via the recent 10 year anniversary of his passing. Musical nods to Fred Smith’s music with the MC5 were peppered throughout the evening. All in all, though, it seemed that the biggest crowd-pleasing performance of the evening was Carolyn Striho’s acoustic take on Fred and Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power,” performed with Jackson Smith on rhythm guitar." (Carolyn's frequent collaborator and friend).
Ralph Valdez, WDET-FM Detroit: “The music that she’s been doing has always had a great Detroit feel to it. Now something more is happening, becoming this blend of hard Detroit sounds with more pop elements…”
All Music Guide/Internet: “Striho writes gorgeous, psychedelic pop songs that come from the silver edge of midnight, aching anthems of poetry and longing…”
Jim McFarlin, Metro Times: “Striho has been an irrepressible attraction on Detroit’s musical landscape, noted for her impassioned live sets. Striho is refusing to live in the past. She’s living for today, which makes her future look extraordinarily bright. After years of experimenting, and eclectic shows in Detroit, Toronto, and Osaka, Japan, Carolyn's songs reveal the budding awareness of personal evolution."
Carolyn with the Patti Smith Group at Michigan Theatre, Aug 2007, Ann Arbor Michigan USA
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With 7 Detroit Music Award Nominations 2009! And the big Comerica City Fest Girls! Girls! Girls! Carolyn is a Citizen of the World, a Detroit musician respected as a songwriter, singer, poet, artist =Carolyn's live shows blast classical, folk, rock, pop, cabaret, & dreamy psychedelia, vibrant & bewitching - bold, hypnotic, smart! On a Steinway grand piano or hot red keyboard, playing European gypsy music-Carolyn's tribal dance melodies compel!
From the Metro Times, review of Is This Me?
by Bill Holdship 2/27/2008
It takes some courage to title a new song "Promised Land" in 2008. Carolyn Striho's "Promised Land" may be the one that best expresses its message via its mood in no uncertain terms. It isn't at all reminiscent of Springsteen's hope-in-the-face-of-despair anthem in its tone, nor even the more cynical but still humorous "Promised Land" by Chuck Berry as covered by Elvis Presley and thousands of others. Striho's "Promised Land" is dissonant electro-pop, with frightening stream-of-consciousness lyrics, appropriate for the zeitgeist following eight years of Bush. But it rocks nevertheless.
Is This Me? is exceptionally good. The internationally renowned Detroit artist's voice is, at turns, warm, rich, idiosyncratic and, at times, just plain (in a good way) eccentric. "Tiara" opens things on a violin-driven, downbeat, almost mournful but still melodically beautiful note. The appropriately titled "Ocean" is so Patti Smith influenced in its trippiness and mid-song chanting that it almost could be Patti Smith. And that's meant as a compliment — a big one. "Enchante" opens with a calliope-driven instrumental musical interlude before the lyrics kick in and it becomes a clash between the sounds of Barnum & Bailey and gypsys, tramps and thieves.
Good stuff. Four-and-a-half out of five, only because it leaves you wanting to hear more from this Motor City maven!
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Hi carolyn striho, Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers & Chickenfoot) presents the Bombastic Meatbats, a sexy and loud, sonic funk experience that fuses together styles as diverse as funk, punk and 70's R&B! The CD will be in stores on September 15th and is available for PREORDER NOW, along with Free banner and wallpapers downloads! Please help spread the word and thanks for supporting Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats!!!
Today the Crofoot and 323East launch www.RocketMonster.com an online film festival for music videos. It's $8 but for a limited time use coupon code enterfree for Free Entry. We are calling on all music genres to upload your video. The Winner receives cash and other prizes. check the website for more details. http://www.rocketmonster.com
I'm hitting the road in a couple of weeks to raise money for War Child, Coast-to-coast – 50 cities – ALL PROCEEDS TO WARCHILD. Why? 66% of all war victims are CHILDREN. Shocked like me? War Child helps these children that have been affected by war. Check out the new blog – the whole story is up there. Love to have you be a part of it.
You’ll find a Blog, Tour page and a Bio page. I’ll be blogging daily from the road.
Hello fellow creative compassionate people, I've been doing guerrilla soup kitchens at the NSO located at MLK and Third in Detroit's Cass Corridor for a while now and we have experienced many friendly people who love to hang out and talk with us so we like to stay and socialize, network, help, whatever the experience brings for a while even after the food is gone and the clothing picked through.
I've been envisioning a social event where we show the love by sharing our arts and spend a little time, something that the residents of the streets and shelters in Detroit do not have an opportunity to experience and let it become a gathering of unity and strength in the community that we are all a part of.
I'm very excited about this event coming up powered by the Spacewalk Superhero energy and its all free to the homeless, so please come and perform if you can and have a hot dog with us. Food and seasonal clothing is also welcomed to offer.
The announcement:
UPR Detroit and Spacewalk is holding a soup kitchen and a variety show on the lawn across from the Neighborhood Service Organization located at 3430 Third at MLK in Detroit. http://www.nso-mi.org/services.php
Calling all artists, musicians, clowns and circus performers, actors, poets, rappers, performers of any kind, plus any practitioners of the healing arts such as massage therapy or reiki, barbers, nurses, anyone who has something to offer and friendly folks to help and socialize with us.
We are beginning to serve at noon this Saturday,, July 4th and it should last till 3pm, maybe longer if people want to stay.
So dress up like anything you want, costuming is encouraged because its fun and stop by this Saturday from noon till 3.
Peace and love in solidarity,
p. s. Call me if you have any questions or needs and I will make sure you've got it and lets talk before you come too. And Please pass this bulletin on!
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