Not many people can front a rock band, sing Górecki’s Third Symphony, lead a marching band processional down the streets of the Sundance film festival and perform in a baroque opera of their own composing — all in a month’s time. But Shara Worden can. She came from a musical family of traveling evangelists, went on to study operatic voice and then classical composition not only in the States, but also in Moscow, where she made her first records. Since 2006 she has been making art pop records under the name of My Brightest Diamond. And there were many collaborations with such artists as Laurie Anderson, David Byrne & Fat Boy Slim, Sufjah Stevens, Prefuse 73, Recoil, Bon Iver, The Blind Boys of Alabama and more.

„This Is My Hand” album on LP,CD, digital on Asthmatic Kitty (US)

She also in a very famous artist Matthew Barney’s brand new cine-opera, the „River of Fundament„, together with Salman Rushdie, Mike Tyson, Debbie Harry and Zeena Parkins, but it’s „such a mess that I sincerely hope I will never have to endure a second viewing” – wrote a critic.

The beauty of it is that she was born in El Dorado

Euro tour in Oct

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Classic industrial techno disco tracks taken from the split LP of STATIQBLOOM and ZEX MODEL

STATIQBLOOM is the German born Fade Kainer from New York. He has industrial metal background (Batillus, Inswarm, Theologian), member in tour band of Jarboe (Swans). ZEX MODEL is a project of Paul von Aphid from Russia, Kaliningrad (aka Königsberg, East-Prussia). It’s dedicated to mutant sounds of 80’s WaxTrax and Nettwerk Records. The split will be released later this month on Desire Records (France)

Black Ice Cream Experience

Peculiar experimental tropical music from electro-noise tunes to danceable pop melodies by Helado Negro. Son of Ecuadorian immigrants, who has grown in the Latin-American bustle of South-Florida. His interest was arouse by the sounds of tropical nature and environment: subwoofers in the cars, howling music of portable stereos, uproars of night parties and more. Since then he looks on every device as musical instruments. I’m glad to hear about him again, because

Third part of his EP series Island Universe Story on Asthmatic Kitty. Cassette or digital

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Back To Back. Nice Texan hardcore punk – raw, brutal and fatal

7″ by 540 Records

Son of Ecuadorian immigrants in the Latin-American bustle of South-Florida. The sounds of tropical nature and environment arouse his interest, for example: the sound of subwoofers in the cars, the howling music of portable stereos, the uproars of night parties. He looks on every device as musical instrument. He feels strange attraction to the owls. He calls himself Black Ice Cream.

„We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain.” (Huxley). With the Island Universe Story series, Helado Negro has set out to chart new constellations and family lineage for the lonely souls and stars of the deep universe of existence. In latin experimental style:

from Island Universe Story 2 digital album or cassette by Asthmatic Kitty

You can listen to the 1st part here

Only easy country & pop & some strange melodies on the Asthmatic Kitty‘s free summer sampler. There are some good songs. For example the most hardest one: