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Moto:Rosa

"She demystifies the afternoon..."

About Me

Background By Profile Mods THE RIGHT CHEMISTRY....Pure pop melody and artful dissonance may at first seem to be on the opposite ends of the sound spectrum, but New York City 's Moto:Rosa manages to embrace both, creating stark but exciting three-minute melodic gems in the process.Moto:Rosa formed in September 2004, following a late night "jam" between friends Chris and Scott at Chris's home studio. The two figured it was time they finally got together to flush out some song ideas they'd been working on independently. It was an instant melding of minds. The fact that the two guys had almost identical CD collections (everything from Doors, Beatles, T Rex to Bauhaus, Blur, The Fall, Placebo, etc.), and were always turning up at the same shows around town, turned out to be a musical epiphany. A few recordings under their belt and a few shows with friends filling in as needed. Nick and Lynnae joined in the fall of 2005, the line up now being complete, the band re-debuted at The Sentimentalist Magazine party to a packed house. Moto:Rosa is set to write history...
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Member Since: 3/21/2005
Band Website: asthetik.com/motorosa
Band Members: Scott Irvine, Chris David, Lynnae Savage, Sunil Soman
Influences: More inspiration than influence: THE WORDS: Oscar Wilde, Mallarme, Paul Valery, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Samuel Beckett.THE MUSIC: The Cure, Blur, Stone Roses, Echo and the Bunnymen, Chameleons, The Cooper Temple Clause, Bauhaus, Autolux, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pulp, Pixies, Radiohead, Scarfo, Suede, David Bowie, Idlewild, Placebo, and...
Sounds Like: ...rain.
Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Djing again at Soft Spot in Bklyn

Hello all,It has been a while, what with going to Prague and Berlin, writing new Moto:Rosa songs and hanging out with Ian Astbury... But the time has once again come for Scott and I, (i.e. Jazzy Juic...
Posted by Moto:Rosa on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:27:00 PST

Show this Saturday...

Yeppers so who all is coming to our show on Saturday at Crash Mansion? I better see all 3,892 of our myspace friends there or else we'll be forced to do a really bad cover version of Smoke on the Wat...
Posted by Moto:Rosa on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:04:00 PST

Scott & Chris/Moto:Rosa DJing @ Soft Spot 6/14 FREE 10PM

DJ Jazzy Juice and Sunny Side Up, AKA Scott and Chris from Moto:Rosa, will once again be spinning indie, post-punk, local NY bands, no wave, perhaps even some old gothy classics at Soft Spot this Thur...
Posted by Moto:Rosa on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:54:00 PST

4/12 DJ Scott and Chris Djing tonight at Soft Spot in B'klyn...

Once again DJ Scott and Chris, (that's me), are hitting the turntables at Soft Spot, (128 Bedford B'tween N9 & N10), 10pm FREE. Come out and hang out with the boys from Moto:Rosa. They will be playi...
Posted by Moto:Rosa on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:22:00 PST

New Moto:Rosa CD available through CD Baby

New Faith Healer CD available on CD Baby. See the link below...It's a good'un
Posted by Moto:Rosa on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:19:00 PST

Scott and Chris are DJ'ing March 8th

So what's going on? I am posting on this here blog when I should be writing lyrics to some of our newer songs, (or should I say newer song, singular, that is). So how about that? Writer's block? Do...
Posted by Moto:Rosa on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:24:00 PST