Shepherd Express/Jamie Lee Rake reviews Transfixed Summer
Milwaukee’s Longacre follows last year’s full-length debut with five songs that further their adult alt aesthetic. Adding to the group’s muscularly hushed emotional vignettes are more exotic, international sounds and themes. Some flamenco guitar and American-Indian powwow drumming form the bass for a couple of cuts; the opener casts Asian concubinage as a metaphor for alienation and recalls 10,000 Maniacs and Siouxsie & The Banshees. The emotional gravitas that singer/lyricist Claire Chin brought to her quintet’s 2008 release remains, though one may wish she’d crack an intermittent smile.
-Jamie Lee Rake, Shepherd Express Celebrating the new record: Free Song DownloadScroll down to the bottom of this page, download the title track and crank it UP. Summer Record Release Transfixed Summer, a 5 song EP, will be ready for distribution in June. Pre-order yours here by May 28 and get it for cheap. Thursday, May 7 Longacre and Testa Rosa
6 pm at Cedarburg Cultural Center's Ozaukee Nights
W62 N546 Washington Avenue, Cedarburg, WI 53012 Free show! Doors open at 5:30. The babies are here! New song-babies! New girl-baby! New show!
After taking some time to record some new songs and let Claire birth her new baby, this band is ready to come out and play. The new songs are streaming on this site and downloadable. We'll be playing them live at Shank Hall this Friday, March 6 when we open for Paul Cebar.
Next Show w/ PumpkinsBring the kids to Bay View........ NEW SONGS new songs new songs!
Three new songs in final mix (unmastered) form for YOU: Transfixed Summer -- 16 -- Sea of People
These are streaming on this site's audio-player at the bottom of your browser. There's a "lyrics" button on the player control panel if you like that sort of thing. After these are mastered they'll be included on our new EP coming soon. Next show.......Fri, 9/26, Linneman's in Riverwest About Yaya Kambaye and Keba Diabate:
This will be the first time the two brothers have played together in the US. They come from a family of Griot in Dakar, Senegal (Keba came into town this week and we believe it is his first trip outside of Senegal). Keba ia a recognized master of the kora (African harp) while Yaya plays and teaches African percussion in Milwaukee and Madison.
"Mali and Senegal, traditional keeper of cultural traditions and history of the Mandeng people of West Africa passed through generations kept in form of music and dance, recitations and metaphorical statements. Usually the music form begins slow with singing and becomes fast with dance."
About The Drought: The Drought is a five-piece band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin that walks a tightrope between despair and joy, with technicolor indie-folk songs that travel through the dried-out distances that stretch between people. That, and songs about arachnophobic civil war recreationist cults. Their myspace. Oh to transfix summer
The best season of the year, almost gone, and by the looks of this blog we've either done nothing or maybe too much. And oh yes it is indeed the latter.
We've got some new songs mixed and ready to master --- you may have heard the live in-studio version of one of them on WUWM 89.7fm --- 16, about Empress Tzu Hsi. Read Sterling Seagrave's Dragon Lady or Anchee Min's Empress Orchid and The Last Empress if you want to become engrossed in her utterly rich story from both non-fiction and fictional interpretations. Come by to hear this one, more new songs and some from the cd at our post-summer sabbatical at Linneman's on Friday, 9/26. 
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