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Meaghan Burke to Celebrate CREATURE COMFORTS Album Release at Joe's Pub

By: Mar. 30, 2017
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Creature Comforts, the second album from maverick cello songstress Meaghan Burke, is a polystylistic, tragicomic musical funhouse, where deranged Tom Waits-ish waltzes devolve into Mozartian string quartet passages, where contrabass clarinet drones explode into honkytonk guitars (with just a hint of sousaphone).

Her songs flirt with elements of grunge, contemporary classical music, free jazz, folk, and cabaret. Time and time again, a song promises to be a sweet, crooning pop tune - but each time, something emerges from the depths to unsettle, distort, disrupt - and we find ourselves in a room crammed with old love letters and strange creaturely objects, where Gustav Mahler listens to grunge and Jacqueline DuPre shreds free jazz.


The album was recorded in NYC and Vienna, with a cast of Burke's closest musical collaborators from both cities, including the New York-based contemporary string quartet The Rhythm Method, clarinet extremist Carlos Cordeiro, double bassist/sound artist Bernd Klug, Dobro virtuoso Zeke Healy, various members of Burke's Viennese songwriting collective, Loose Lips Sink Ships, and freejazz/hardcore drummer Didi Kern.

Creature Comforts will be released on Friday, May 5th. Joe's Pub hosts the release show on Thursday, May 11th at 9:30pm when Meaghan will be joined by special guests: The Rhythm Method, Zeke Healy, Carlos Cordeiro, and Peter Wise.

Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 9:30pm

Joe's Pub

425 Lafayette Street, NYC
Tickets: $16

Taub Box Office: 212.967.7555 (10AM to 7PM Mon-Sat; 12PM to 6PM Sun)

www.joespub.com

Album Artwork: Leah Asher

TRACK LIST

01 - Methadone Friend

02 - Hobo Doreen

03 - Butterface

04 - Spirit Animal

05 - everyone sleeps alone in the funhouse

06 - Wedding Song

07 - Gowanus

08 - When You´re Gone

09 - Ornithology

10 - Pigeontoes (hidden track)

All music, lyrics, arrangements, cello, and lead vocals by Meaghan Burke


Strings (1, 3, 7, 9) by The Rhythm Method:

Marina Kifferstein, Lavinia Pavlish - violins;

Anne Lanzilotti - viola

Clarinets by Carlos Cordeiro (1, 9)

Dobro guitar by Zeke Healy (2)

Drums (1, 4) and guitar (4) by David Schweighart

Drums (5) by Didi Kern

Vocals (1, 4, 6, 9) by Werner Kitzmüller

Vocals (2, 3, 4 9, 10) and banjo (3, 10) by Simon Usaty

Contrabass (8) by Bernd Klug

Sousaphone (2) by Andreas Humpel

Recorded by Shahzad Ismaily at Figure 8 Studios, Brooklyn and Oliver Brunbauer at Feedback Studios|2, Vienna; additional recordings by Bernd Klug and Stephen Ferguson

Mixed and Mastered by Martin Siewert, Vienna

For more information about Meaghan Burke, visit www.meaghanburkemusic.com.



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