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Moist Paula

your band sounds better with bari sax

About Me

I got the name "Moist" Paula when I formed the band Moisturizer with Moist Gina Rodriguez in 1998. Up until then I had been having fun playing sax with a lot of great bands and musicians in Australia and New York, many of whom I still play with. Since the day my friend Paul Cumming knocked on my door with a tenor sax in his hand saying "this is yours for a month and if you like it you have to give Cambo $400", I've had many exciting saxophonic adventures, particularly since as a result of what turned out to be an opportune theft I switched to bari, which I've wielded live and/or in the studio with many of my musical heroes including James Chance & The Contortions, Gogol Bordello, TV on the Radio, The Roots, Martin Luther & Cody Chesnutt, The Bogmen, Ed Kuepper and many more. Moisturizer is still my main musical squeeze and in New York I continue to play every week with Reverend Vince Anderson & The Love Choir (in our 11th year!); Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, Greg Tate's conducted improvised orchestral organism; Derrin Maxwell & the n9s, a bluesy hip hop hybrid, as well as working on my solo saxtronic project, Secretary. Recently, as part of The Hedonistic Horns, I have recorded with The Dry Yai crew of Sierra Leone and will be doing live dates with them too.

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Member Since: 10/10/2003
Band Website: moisturizer.tv
Band Members: "Moist" Paula HendersonMost of these pix were taken by Ginny Suss
Influences: Mostly I’m influenced by vocalists such as Diana Ross, Dolly Parton and D’Angelo, but a lot of my favorite saxophone players, who definitely influence me, are friends who I’ve been lucky enough to play with in New York -- James Chance, Tim Otto, Matana Roberts, Stuart Bogie, Martin Perna, Colin Stetson, Micah Gaugh, Avram Fefer and Cedric IM Brooks. Oh, and David Murray. I love King Curtis, Junior Walker and Eddie Harris and John Lurie & The Lounge Lizards. My favorite instrument is trombone. Living in New York influences and inspires me night and day. This guy on the left is a huge influence -- here we are contorting ourselves at The Cooler, 2001:

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My Blog

Check out this mini rockumentary ... The Retada Orchestra/Scott Harding Benefit concert

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.... I LOVE playing in any of Tada's projects!!...
Posted by Moist Paula on Sun, 18 May 2008 03:27:00 PST

The ?uestofication of Reverend Vince Monday Nights

So, for those of you who don't know, every Monday night I play in a sweet, special club called Black Betty in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir. We've been playi...
Posted by Moist Paula on Tue, 13 May 2008 10:09:00 PST

Welcome home Moist Yoshio; Farewell Moist Gina!

Come celebrate with Moisturizer tonight at Black Betty as we welcome Moist Yoshio home from his tour of Europe and Africa with Antibalas and bid farewell to Moist Gina as she sets of for a 6 week US t...
Posted by Moist Paula on Wed, 07 May 2008 08:08:00 PST

I'm In The Mood for Dancing

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.... The next four days I'm excited to be accompanying the beautiful dancers Gabri Christa and Niles Ford with Burnt Sugar as part of PS 122's B.O.B. B...
Posted by Moist Paula on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:30:00 PST

Moist Paula On The Radio

My new friend Nora No will be playing a little Secretary and Moisturizer this weekend on The Spacy Stardust Show out of Frankfurt:the show is on air from 9-11 cet. and in new york, sunday 9-11 amand y...
Posted by Moist Paula on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:51:00 PST

Free Mushrooms!

I just added a new song to my profile called "Mushrooms With Strangers" ... please partake of a free download! It'll be on the soon to be released SECRETARY feat. Big Boss album "In The Skyscraper" ...
Posted by Moist Paula on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:58:00 PST

Benefit for Scott Harding this Saturday @ b.p.m. in Williamsburg

April 12th 2008 Saturday night 9PM ~Tokio NY presentsBenefit concert for Engineer/Producer Scotty Hard@ BPM 237 kent ave. between N1st st. & Grand st. Suggested donations: $10.-/ $20.-/ $30.- or whate...
Posted by Moist Paula on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:35:00 PST

dusting off the scanner & cleaning out the cupboards - uh oh!

I always consider blowing off yoga a self-destructive move, but hopefully if I use the time for something like cleaning out the cupboard under my 1995 Sharp color TV, rigging up the old scanner and bu...
Posted by Moist Paula on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:45:00 PST

A Kindly Review

Which I liked, obviously. Thank you sir for your review of Reverend Vince Anderson & His Love Choir at the Prints Gone Wild show!http://blog.limewire.com/posts/726-An-Art-Fair-with-Sou l-Reverend-Ande...
Posted by Moist Paula on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:29:00 PST

The Scott Harding Fund

2 Fridays ago my friend Scott was in an accident. I believe anything is possible and that he may some day walk again, but it will not happen overnight and in the meantime he needs extra support. A f...
Posted by Moist Paula on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:42:00 PST