based in san francisco, california and originally from buffalo, new york, i play music. before that, i was a dancer. not the pole kind, but i like those kind too.
i've had the pleasure of playing shows with boyskout, jane siberry, faun fables, deborah ayall, penelope houston, the quails, the samples, kristen hersh's '50 foot wave' and tons of great artists and bands.
i've toured many times across the states and up and down as well.
i've played the mission creek music festival, noisepop, folk alliance, namm, narm and my favorite sf, ca venue, the eagle tavern. discography +=== 3 self-released CD's :
the clothes we wore before we were married
the cryingness of your crying when you cry
Good Luck Investigationship
upcoming 2008: At Your Mercy Circuit
compilations: Breast Cancer CD /OpenMouthMedia (Denton,TX), SBS Records(Michelle Malone's) comp(Atlanta,GA), Buzzcuts /ShutEye Records (Atlanta, GA), Antifolk (Charleston, SC), DPC 10 Years(SF,CA)
on other folk's CD's: I sing on Tony Furtado's "I ain't got No Home," The Sample's "Too Many Nevers," I play guitar and accordian on projects of friends. i don't know how to play the accordian other than a drone
i like noise as well as structure or structureless noise. ../../../../
i collaborate with filmmakers and dancers like karen everett 'women in love' and randee paufve 'paufvedance.'.
my third self-released cd 'Good Luck Investigationship,' features dean mermell ..s, james whiton, ken frank and val sukhanov all on bass, charles hodgin on winds and noise, the partner of all crimes:robert johnson on drums, stephanie lee on violin, bruce diamond on violin and mandolin.
"Taylor is no copycat. In fact, Taylor owes more to American roots rock than PJ's punk bloodline.Anybody remember the group Come from the '90s? Taylor's blend of Velvet Underground gloom and bluesy Americana actually recalls them more than PJ. However, Come fell of the face of the planet so none too many will namedrop them in a review of "Good Luck Investigationship." Furthermore, Taylor has probably never even heard of Come. If anything, they have a mutual affinity for Neil Young, whose spiritual fingerprints are all over "Dirty" and in Taylor's well-soiled guitar riffs.Taylor thankfully provides a lyric sheet, which is helpful because there is some enigmatic songwriting here. "Doesn't Shine," "By My Grave," and "Prodigal Son" have a Biblical bent to them. No, not in the Christian music sense but more like the songs of Nick Cave, God-fearing folk tales with an Old World feel. You can almost imagine Cave singing, "Bury my love next to me/Bury the one I love the most," in "By My Grave.""Good Luck Investigationship" is a compelling, dimly-lit effort from a new talent that just might propel to the atmospheric heights of her idols."- Whisperin&Hollerin, U.K., Adam Harrington
Terese Taylor - Good Luck Investigationship (Bombsniffingdog)
Terese Taylor can veer from lonely backwoods laments to precise,
grinding Mission Of Burma-like instrumentals and back. Her music is
intuitive and mysterious, filled with personal in-jokes and painful
memories, a puzzle that is meant to be felt and experienced, not
solved. At times, her songs remind me of Neil Young in his youth,
writing lyrics in his sick bed while suffering from a high fever and
coming up with stuff that was troubling and moving, but impossible to
understand on a literal level, even by himself. The details in her
songs tend to be small, but you can feel powerful, unspoken
undercurrents beneath the prosaic details of songs that are
ostensibly about such things as watching a refrigerator defrost or
washing a puppy's feet. You get a clear picture of her personality
from her music: a strong yet hyper-sensitive character who's been
through some serious struggle and come out of it looking at the world
with wry humor and amazement. Her voice is an expressive moan, her
guitar playing is slashing, gut-level stuff on the rockier tracks and
woozy, cracked shards of country-western on the slower ones. (Once
again, the Neil Young parallels apply.) She deserves to be huge.
-J Neo Marvin, ballot for Village Voice Pazz & Jop best of 2006
"Deliciously miserable music..." ~ the NYTimes
"One of San Francisco's local treasures." ~ V.Vale, RE/Search
"Why aren't you guys famous?" - Kristen Hersh
"She categorizes her music as "Folk", but don..t expect to hear strumming on an acoustic guitar and mandolins and violins all day long. This body of work is a fuzzed out rocking jaunt into the backyards and back woods that is at times dark and beautiful. Terese..s voice can be delicate enought to convey loss, longing and hurt, but never do you get the sense that it overwhelms. In fact these songs are a testiment to someone who survived."
-DJ Nylon, PirateKat Radio
"Waify and one of the most charmingly self-deprecating alternative rockers, San Francisco-based Terese Taylor defines herself and her music best (of course): "I'm an outskirts, pavement-to-dirt road kind of un(musak) industry gal." Her record is through and through one of the most superlative releases of the year. This record... has that almost indefinable oddball spark that sets some musicians apart from the norm. Lyrically, it's as if Taylor is telling a story on a dusty back porch, and her songs have the feel of a hazy, grainy black and white photograph. Although she gets plenty of them, Taylor defies any accurate comparisons to other musicians. Her signature blend of folk-funk, rock and hopeful doom places her in a well-deserved category of her own. She's a weirdo who makes music that feels like a long drive on a barren road as sunlight flashes through tired, old tree branches. And it's only off this beaten path that you'll find your way into her beautifully sad and addictive sound."
-venuszine, USA
