***NEWS***
New CD!!!
Our debut record, "More Popular Than Presidents And Generals," is released through Dephine Knormal Musik, Moe! Staiano's label. The 43+ minute full-length CD features 12 dynamic and hyperkinetic songs, including a cover version of Massacre's 'Killing Time'. All tracks on this site are from this record!
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U.S./Canada shippingInternational shippingor send $14 post-paid for FIRST CLASS shipping/handling in US/Canada, and $18 post-paid for international AIR MAIL shipping/handling to:
Dephine Knormal Musik
1557 Pete Court
Manteca, California
95337-9479, USA
Money orders can be made out to MARIO STAIANO.
Order the LP! Out Now!
To order the LP of More Popular Than Presidents and Generals (limited edition of 268 on half white/half white with red splatter with an exclusive non-CD track), click here
U.S./Canada shipping:
International shipping...Or! send $22 post-paid for PRIORITY shipping/handling in US/Canada, and $27 post-paid for international AIR MAIL shipping/handling to:
Dephine Knormal Musik
1557 Pete Court
Manteca, California
95337-9479, USA
Money orders can be made out to MARIO STAIANO.
Copies of the LP can be found at Amoeba Records and Aquarius Records, San Francisco. as well as the CD version.
The story of our band is a saga...
Mute Socialite is drummer Moe! Staiano (Moe!kestra!, ex-Sleepytime
Gorilla Museum), guitarist Ava Mendoza, bassist Alee Karim
(The Atomic Bomb Audition), drummer Shayna Dunkelman, and
trumpeter/electronicist Liz Allbee (ex-Le Flange Du Mal). The music
is a convergence of Moe!'s driving post-punk drumming and percussion
guitar, Ava's free jazz sensibility and mangled country and black
metal riffage, Alee's sub-bass, grinding harmonic interplay, Shayna's
prismatic sense of percussive dynamics, and Liz's warped melodicism
and seasick textures. Jolting, hocketing rhythms, atonal surf riffs,
and blackened salsa grooves combine to create a singular brutal,
polyrhythmic spasmathon. A primordial beastie unleashed on the world
in fury and love!
Since 2006 we have shared bills with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Uz Jsme Doma, Old Time Relijun, XBXRX, Carla Bozulich's Evangelista, Death Sentence: Panda!, Weasel Walter, Cryptacize (members of Deerhoof), and Little Women. Members of Mute Socialite have collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith,
Nurse with Wound, Terrie Ex, Z'ev, Ron Anderson, Steve Mackay, Damo Suzuki, William Winant, Carla Bozulich, Zeena Parkins, and Ikue Mori.
Mute Socialite's first full-length album, More Popular Than Presidents
and Generals, has just been released on Moe!'s Dephine Knormal Musik
imprint. Samples can be heard above! Anyone interested in helping with distribution may contact us here or at [email protected].
Selected Press:
"Mute Socialite... draw freely from free-jazz, improv, metal, and noise to create pounding and unorthodox sonic vignettes
that are impressive for their velocity as well as their technical
dexterity... the songs
are engaging and controlled (even when it doesn't necessarily sound
that way), and there's nothing fey or abstract about their demanding
sonic wallop. This is an experimental / free-jazz album that hardcore
metalheads can appreciate (or should that be the other way around?),
with plenty of dynamics and surprising changes in direction to go with
the hyperkinetic drumming, machine-gun riffing, and howling guitar
excess." - The One True Dead Angel
"Rapid-fire, agile pieces, a slashing noisy attack with thickly dissonant chords. A sense of abandon but played with precision. Solid, crisp rhythms and speedy riffs -- so you can rock out *and* enjoy your brutal harsh noise all at once...The skeleton of prog's multifaceted writing, the blood of 150-degree speed metal, the overcaffeinated nerves of well executed punk rock." -Craig Matsumoto, KZSU Zookeeper
"..Arguably one of the most aggressive and tight groups I’ve ever seen."-- Gabe Gomez, Santa Fe Reporter
