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Lucy Karashigo

About Me

Lucy Karashigo was born in the secret Karashi Mountains on Hokkaido and had to flee to Coney Island, because the Jakuza was after her (she had found out some secrets... about the Tenno... but pssst). Being in Coney Island she fell in love with a sword-swallower. But that was long before she met her now husband Sid. In Coney Island she started to make music and—after her sword-swallowing boyfriend had died from a hiccup— she tried to overcome her sorrow with a new hobby. That's when she found out that she really liked writing stories and inventing characters and let them do what she wants, like puppets on a string.
So it happens that today Lucy writes songs, sings with her favourite bands son de la goutte and eldorado cats and is working on her first novel. Electrofunk and Space Country Pop are her favourite musical styles. And she loves Haruki Murakami and Paul Auster—exclusively in a professional way of course, because the only man in her life is Sid.
They live in Cologne, far away from the Karashi Mountains. Lucy might never be able to return to Japan—though she is planning one or two concerts next year in Tokyo. We will see. But from time to time Lucy travels to Coney Island to visit her old fellows and to take a breath of Atlantic air while sitting in a little rusty cabin of the Wonder Wheel.
Times are achanging, as an old friend of Lucy's, Bob, is always saying. And Lucy changes as well. But what will remain is her optimism that love and music, art and word are powers that make up for our sometimes silly stay on the planet.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/09/2006
Band Website: karashigo.com
Band Members:

Influences: beck, bob dylan, motown, johnny cash, old jazz stuff, d'angelo, pernice brothers, cassandra wilson, erykah badu, sting, 80ies pop, the musicians I am working with
Sounds Like: bob dylan having some singing lessons, madonna having checked out how jazz harmonics work, nora jones having forgotten how to play the piano and all of those guys meet for a session to writing songs about all those annoying minor problems in life, but still planning to save the human kind.

check out:

www.sondelagoutte.com

www.myspace.com/eldoradocats

www.venus-international.com

Hanukkah Harry

Record Label: me myself and eye

My Blog

1. Platz bei den 2. Heidelberger Krimitagen

Juchuuu! Unsere Autorengruppe "Schreibrausch" hat ihren zweiten 1. Platz mit einem Gemeinschaftstext gewonnen. Letztes Jahr noch haben wir in Pfungstadt die "Mord und Blutwurst"-Lorbeeren eingeheimst,...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:17:00 GMT

Son de la goutte is online - Yippee!!!

Dear folks,for 8 years now I am playing with this fantastic band, they are my musical family. For "beep" years we are working on our CD: We built the room that we record and rehearse in, we bought the...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:15:00 GMT

Hartshorne House

With Mr. Alfa, Head of Venus International, I have recorded a song called "Hartshorne House" some weeks ago.Just as a note I like to mention here that real life writes the best lyrics. I wrote the poe...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:58:00 GMT