Member Since: 11/13/2006
Band Website: www.the-improvisor.com/transmuseq/ladonna
Band Members: LaDonna Smith and collaborators...
Influences: "What influences me is what i'm interested in at the moment my eyes and ears drink the juice of the present. I love everything that moves on four legs, flies with two wings, has a voice to sing, and surrounds me with the pleasure of temperatures extreme and textures, warm and fuzzy, crackle, grit, and gravy. Mix it up with the history of the formal and ritual musics of all the earth peoples and expressions of sentient beings sparkle, phenomenal weather magnified, and inner whisperings of dreams, the subconscious memories, and the fertile imagination."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHIr_3mfEys
Sounds Like: LaDonna ..........................."a million cranes flapping their wings through and amplifier. Her sound includes sounds that transcent the personal, combined with a kind of technique which is obviously practiced, though never arrogant or overstated. Sometimes the music sounds like a motorcycle driven through the string section of an orchestra, at other times she forays into the upper stratosphere of coloratura soprano extracted from her instrument. Her vocals ring out like a fifth string on the violin. ...The only difficulty I have is that listening to too many pieces at one time is like eating too much chocolate. (think dark chocolate...) I love chocolate, but too much makes me feel insane." - Hillary Fielding and Ross Rabin
Record Label: TransMuseq Records at www.transmuseq.com
Type of Label: Indie