We’ve finished our second album, “Toxic Consonance”! It was such a pleasure to work with master architectioneer Landon Arkens once again at Blast House Studios during the recording & mixing of this album. Now in post-production, we are designing the cd-packaging, commissioning album art, mastering the cd, etc… this is where we need your help! By pre-ordering our new album, now through 8/1, you will help us to cover these costs!
There are all sorts of sweet Socialite swag in our perks section; including t-shirts, posters, an exclusive ep, house shows, & Mike, our drummer, will even clean your pool!
Thanks so much for your support!!
Check out our first music video single from the new album, “Black Yukon Sucker Punch”!
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Lovely Socialite is:
Abe Sorber – Vibraphone
Ben Willis – Double Bass, Electric Bass
Brian Grimm – Cello, Pipa, Gaohu, Hammered-Guzheng
Corey Murphy – Trombone
Mike Koszewski – Drums, Percussion
Pat Reinholz – Cello
We had a wonderful show last night @ Bright Red Studios! Thanks to all who came out!
∮ Lovely Socialite explored a quartet free-improv set with Pat on cello, Abe on vibes, Mike on assorted home-made percussion and drum set, & BCG on gaohu, pipa, bass & cajon. So much open, quiet space. We were able to explore individual solo moments all around, as well as every duo pairing within the larger quartet. Very rewarding, as most Socialite sextet improvs exist in a wall-of-sound-madness! I was grateful to explore sparcer orchestrations for such an open ear’d audience. (new album due out by early fall!)
∯ Taralie of Spires That In The Sunset Rise, known as Tar Pet when solo – gave us a really deep set. My favorite two pieces were in the middle. One was a layering of melodic cello drones that bubbled forth minute changes, all playing against one another to create a long landscape. Once the scene was set, she switched to sax and blew an elegy to Ornette Coleman, who passed away this week. I think we all knew what it was about, because Taralie was so excellent and clear in her delivery of the meditation. What a way to send-up Ornette! [peace, respect]
…oh yeah, DISTORTED CELLO DRONES!!!. < that’s all I need to say on the one that followed.
∰ The touring musician of the night, Jonah Parzen-Johnson (Brooklyn, NYC), treated us to his carefully crafted ‘bari-sax + electronics’ compositions. Inbetween pieces, he would share introspections and wonderments de jour. Anything his soul was searching at the moment. A lot of it about how we interact with each other, but all of it posed in the form of (yet) unanswered questions. Much appreciation for the insight into his being and process. Jonah is on tour for his new album “Remember When Things Were Better Tomorrow”, which you should buy right now! He’s halfway through a 5 week tour, help support his final leg with a purchase of his well developed music!
Twin Peaks Party: music, book signing, coffee, screen printing, costume contest, and more!!!
I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to put together a little 7-piece group called, “Leo Johnson & The New Shoes” (which I believe was coined by our very own Huckleberry Grimm) – comprising of Lovely Socialite members BCG, Abe Sorber, Corey Murphy & Pat Reinholz, joined by Geoff Brady (drums – Stray Passage, Yid Vicious), Rob Lundberg (bass) & Julian Lynch (sax & clarinet). Over the past 2 weeks, Lovely Socialites, including Pat Reinholz, Corey Murphy, Ben Willis & myself, have been hard at work arranging the famous Angelo Badalamenti soundtrack from the show. Recently, I sat down with Scott Gordon of Tone Madison at WORT for an interview on the arranging process – check it out here! >> Tone MSN – Brian Grimm on channeling the music of Twin Peaks
From the MPL: “ Madison Public Library and the Wisconsin Book Festival are pairing up to present Brad Dukes, author of Reflections: An Oral History of Twin Peaksfor the Bubbler Night Light event The Owls Are Not What They Seem. The author will be visiting from Florida and discussing his book through a Q & A style platform.
Craig Grabhorn / c.Cal Design Studio . Artist-in-Residence, with other visiting print artists, will be hosting a Screen Printing party. Patrons are invited to bring their own T-shirts, canvas bags, etc. to have printed with a one-of-a-kind, Lynchian-inspired design.
Tandem Press, local professional press and artistic laboratory, will display prints by Twin Peaks’ director David Lynch and discuss his creative experimentation process.
There will be Twin Peaks-inspired live music (Road House-style) from Leo Johnson and the New Shoes (music arranged by Lovely Socialite Mrs. Thomas W. Phipps): musicians include Julian Lynch – sax & clarinet, Geoff Brady (Yid Vicious, Stray Passage) – drums, BC Grimm (Lovely Socialite) – bass & cello, Corey Murphy (Lovely Socialite) – trombone, Abe Sorber (Lovely Socialite) – vibraphone, Pat Reinholz (Lovely Socialite) – cello.
More music and weirdness from Half Whale.
Plus we’ll have donuts stacked to the sky, coffee (black as midnight on a moonless night), and pie that is worth the stop. Twin Peaks-inspired cocktails and refreshments by Forequarter
Come dressed as your favorite Twin Peaks character and have your picture taken in the Black Lodge photo booth.
