Crinoline was formed with
the intent of producing
evocative, dynamic energy in spite of the ordered,
linear constructions of today's music scene. They are
innovative yet classic; ordered yet spontaneous.
Their philosophy tends toward minimalism, but moves
away from the usual patterned schema of the trite.
Originally, Crinoline was involved in
quasi-formalistic proto-classical illusionism, but
gradually their music evolved into a highly personal,
luministically neo-environmental vision. They've
also mastered 4 chords!
Musically, Crinoline has achieved a heightened,
hieratic effect while maintaining a primitive,
volumetric simultaneity. The tonality of their work
reminds one of the archetypal and geometric work of
the early harmonic mesoliths. In fact, their tunes
resemble a cross between the De Franco Family , the
Sex Pistols , and moose mating!
Lyrically, Crinoline uses mannered, graphic nuances
which are painterly in their effect and optical in
their symbolism. The semiotics embodied in their "ars
poetica" reveals gestural tendencies and perceptual
iconography. The words sometimes rhyme, too!
GYNO VOX : Zoey
Zoey's style of singing is directly attributable to
her favorite album of all time -
Jingo De Lunch
sing Soundgarden. This landmark album,
her undying reverence for Josie and the Pussycats,
Hayzee Fantayzee, and The Hard Ons, and slumming through
pre- and post-pubescence in Australia, has left Zoey
with a voice which displays formal and protean techniques
without being too lavish. Her stage presence,
ironically, demonstrates a fascination with
improvised inverted isocephalism.
Oh, she looks good, too!
RHYTHM GUITAR : Sayne
Sayne was born in San Diego -- a tranquil, comely,
mossback receptacle for militaristic, Republican,
racist canaille who drive 4-wheel drives with gun
racks and "America, Love It or Leave It" and "Guns,
Guts, and Blood-That's What Made America Great"
bumperstickers while listening to country and western
music as they go to the border to shoot people trying
to cross into the United States illegally . . .
It was in these charmed environs that Sayne grew up
uneventfully. He went through the usual rites of
passage: vaccinations, kindergarten, Cub Scouts,
Little League baseball, boners in class, first sexual
encounter, Catholic guilt, big red zit on tip of nose
before every important photograph is taken, high
school graduation, college, first sexual encounter
with a partner, work, and finally marriage, which led
to his first sexual encounter with an actual person.
Sometime between this and that, Sayne heard a song
which would have a profound effect upon his life,
"Tiny Bubbles". Sayne knew he had to make music in his
life. In a recent interview, Sayne said, "'Tiny
Bubbles' was the epiphany. I was hooked on a feeling
and had the music in me, the music in me." Now, years
later, Sayne is on the verge of fulfilling a dream -
learning a 5th chord. What genius will ensue? The
world can only hold its breath and wait.
ELECTRIC BASS, STAND-UP BASS,
SOUSAPHONE: Karl
Tall, light and handsome, Karl treasures the past
through punk-rock, rose-colored spectacles.
In a record-shop-browsing Sunday afternoon,
he gives an album from the early 1930's
the same weight as one from last week when deciding
which one will accompany him to the cashier.
He'll make it outside and decide a Vanilla Latte seems pretentious,
then, he'll crack open a Natural Ice on the way back
to the van in the parking lot. Resting the empty can on the dash,
Fats Waller and Siouxsie compete for his attention
in the tape deck for a few,
as the California sun drops slowly into the sea.
DRUMS, PERCUSSION: Louis
Louis, Louis, Louis, you're the boy we all liked in high school
who was with the cool crowd but made time to talk to the freaks
about music and art and love and the things that mattered then
and still do.
Hit those skins hard
and show the world how much love can go into that loud noise.
Bam, bam, bam....