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A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!)

Where mood and groove collide

About Me

A BEAUTIFUL CURSE was officially born in 2004 by freelance musician/producer Kenny James (who has worked with George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, 24-7 Spyz, Celldweller, The Samples, and so many more). The CURSE, originally named My Drama, was a part time project combining emotional/dramatic rock, electronica, and the downtempo/trip hop movement, a blend Kenny christened as "sextempo" (sexy downtempo music).

In 2007, Kenny discovered uber-musician Brian Skeel through his work with mutual musical collaborators Contingence and Brian's remix work with Fixt Music. Time and time again, each musical piece that grabbed Kenny's ear had Brian involved. It was obvious that Brian was clearly a talent not to pass on. In late 2007, Brian was inducted as a full-time collaborator with the now newly named/newly focused A BEAUTIFUL CURSE bringing amazing guitar work along with monsterous yet extremely tasty programming and background vocals as well among other contributions.

Initially designed primarily for film soundtracks and music licensing (t.v. commercials, video games, etc.), A BEAUTIFUL CURSE is now a full-on music project headed by its two main contributors with all eyes focused on the release of the debut cd "As It Should Be" coming in 2008 and live performances in the near future as well. Yet, no matter its design, it's truly dream-music from the heart and soul. A collision of groove and mood for the senses.


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Music:

Member Since: 11/9/2007
Band Website: abeautifulcurse.com
Band Members: KENNY JAMES, BRIAN SKEEL & SAVANNAH KOCHER

Along with invaluable contributions by:

Kyle Jones: Bass
Apostle: Spoken Word
Elizabeth Rose: Vocals
Laura Haan: Vocals
Loretta Southerland: Vocals
Soonja Doyle: Vocals
Teddy Martin, Jr.: Vocals
Sammy Barrett: Vocals
Joshua Westfall: Vocals
Jeff Angell: Vocals
Benjamin Anderson: Vocals

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Influences: Ethereality, ambience, motion, autumn, winter, deafening silence, fragility, thunder, lightning, smoke, fire, tension, release, dreams, oz. Also OTT, Black Uhuru, Porcupine Tree, Faithless, Massive Attack, Mos Def, Moby, Mad Professor, Burning Spear, Hooverphonic, and BT.
Sounds Like: One hand clapping, beauty, power, surrender, a pulse, vulnerability, and a hammer. A Beautiful Curse.
Record Label: CTM Entertainment
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

From the studio!

Hey music lovers! I'm reporting to you from The Decibel Garden, a post audio studio in Denver. Right in front of me is Kenny James of The Witching Hour and session drummer for Celldweller, and we're c...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:29:00 PST

The Soul Divine

Just wanted to let you know that we've posted a brand new song on our player called "The Soul Divine" which features your first chance to hear the voice of our newest collaborator Savannah Kocher.Chec...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:24:00 PST

A new face and more

We're very proud to announce and introduce to you our newest member/collaborator Savannah Kocher!  Whoo Hoo!!  Welcome to the family, Savannah.  You have no idea what you're in for.&nbs...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:06:00 PST

Movie, mixing, and more

The first big piece of news is that we've been picked to supply some music for an indie film! Specifically, the song "A Lot Like Diamonds" has been picked to be sort of the hero's theme throughout th...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Mon, 26 May 2008 10:17:00 PST

ABC is now on itunes

We just wanted to send out a quick note letting you know that A Beautiful Curse's music is now available on itunes. "A Lot Like Diamonds" and "A Mind of its Own" are available as singles and there is...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:14:00 PST

The Cursed Store

I’ve been forgetting to mention this but our merch store (titled "The Cursed Store") is live and online as we speak. There are t-shirts, stickers, even postage stamps available and more stuff s...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:02:00 PST

Delicate and more

WHOO HOO!!! Things are truly happenin' (wonderfully, I might add) and we felt it was important to share it with you. What's the news this time, you might be asking? Well, get a load of this:At long...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:24:00 PST

Rings n’ things

We now have a few ringtones available as we speak. And three of them are previews to three new songs even.Just click here to be taken directly to our ringtone page. Oh, and we have digital devise wa...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:10:00 PST

See? Here we go.

So as promised, here's some new artwork/a new look for our page. The color scheme, text, images, etc. are part of what you'll see on the new website as well (coming soon).In the meantime, I hope you ...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:28:00 PST

Welcome!

Welcome to A BEAUTIFUL CURSE! Some may know that A Beautiful Curse used to be a thing called My Drama but it's now grown to include the incredible musical creativity of one Brian Skeel. Adding Brian...
Posted by A Beautiful Curse (is in the studio!!) on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:09:00 PST