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About Me


SHANNON FUNCHESS a.k.a LIGHT ASYLUM, 2TEARS on TELEPATHE'S DANCE MOTHER L.P. to be released in North America April 14, 2009 and single "BELLS"(released 2008): singer/ song writer, multinstrumentalist, and dj spanning a decade and a half! Is a pillar in her community and sings on a handful of Brooklyn's own TELEPATHE, TV ON THE RADIO, T.K. WEBB, BUNNY RABBIT AND THE CULT OF MIRACLES records. Featured vocalist on !!!(CHK,CHK,CHK)'s 2007 release, MYTH TAKES single, "HEART OF HEART'S". The newest of contributions being Telepathe's new, ground breaking record 'Dance Mother' where you can hear her sweetening melodies intertwined with Busy Ganges and Melissa Livaudai's haunting verses on tracks like "Chromes on it" and "In Your Line" with the help of producer genius, David Sitek. Also making an appearance in Telepathe's new music video for the single "So Fine". New TELEPATHE Lp 'Dance Mother' available now on itunes. US release date April 14th, 2009. Currently the drummer and backing vocalist for Bunny Rabbit and the Cult of Miracles, set to tour Europe in the summer of 2009. Shannon performed live in EU/US/AUS/NZ/SOUTH AMERICA as the 2nd vocalist in !!! (CHK,CHK,CHK) 2007-2008, including US festivals; Coachella, Lollapolooza, Bumbershoot, Bonaroo and Langarodo; EU fests, Leeds and Reeding, Summer Case festivals in Spain and Iceland's AirWaves festival to name just a few. Fronting the band along side Nic offer, singing lead vocals on several of !!!'s invigorating dance wonders after the sultry John Pugh left the band in 2006. Miss Funchess is currently recording and performing under the alias LIGHT ASYLUM and finishing up a year long, album project with TV ON THE RADIO'S Gerard Smith. LIGHT ASYLUM'S first single "Lights Out" produced by Gustavo Andrade is on GLU MAGAZINE'S 1 compilation release, limited edition of 500 cd+poster art. Shannon can also be seen randomly, singing and playing percussion on stage with any number of her musical associates all over of the world if you so demand! As well you can catch her collaborations with other great artist friends such as GLORIA MAXIMO's Yemen Wed III art video installation and sound scape and DEVENDRA BANHART's "Little Yellow Spider" music video as a shaman spirit in the center of the video shot in 2004. GRANT WORTH's "freeky" video for Tha Pumpsta in k48 magazine's 'prison' issue. Stay tuned!
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Music:

Member Since: 1/9/2008
Band Members: Shannon Funchess a.k.a LIGHT ASYLUM a.k.a. 2TEARS, Gustavo Andrade and Walter M. (producers)
Influences: TELEPATHE, TV ON THE RADIO, T.K. WEBB, !!! (CHK,CHK,CHK), DURTY NANAS (R.I.P.),, BUNNY RABBIT AND THE CULT OF MIRACLES, TOY TRAIN, A/C AUTOLUX, IMIJ, STEREO TAXI, THA PUMPSTA and DERRIERE,ROSE PARADE, M83, motherland, lansing- drieden sage, hrdr, karp, built to spill, fiantly macabe, sick bees, the gits, tattle tale, seven year bitch, caustic resin, violent green, nina simone (r.i.p.), kate bush, bauhuas, tones on tale, my bloody valentine, massive attack, basement jaxx, johnthan richman and the modern lovers, ministry, moe tucker, vu, joy division, james brown (r.i.p.), beach house, mirror mirror, m.i.a.,jah,pizza,donuts,madlib, patrick clean denim richard prior (r.i.p.) erik satie, planningtorock, kraftwerk, B.I.G., tribe called quest, outkast, broadcast, joni mitchell, diamanda galas, john coltrane, stevie wonder, gang of four, esg, screaming j. hawkins, lead belly, serge gainsbourgh, sharon von etten, the smiths, fishbone, fear, cro-mags, bad brains, funkadelic, mahalia jackson, wu-tang, grace jones, depeche mode, devo, danger mouse, richie havens, b-52's, iggy pop, brian eno, the beatles, the dead mikmen, a certain ratio, david bowie, tina turner, tim buckley, cocteau twins, the pixies, billie holiday,inxs, my mom, green river, soundgarden, big black, codine, kpz's, xanax, clan of xymox, soft cell, melvins, kudu, land of the loops, unkle, blur, soul 2 soul,madness, the specials, the selector, peter tosh, fela kuti, nitzer eb, werner herzog, coehn bros., the clash, activism, shut up you dream crusher.com, My Mom
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Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

2006 with T.K. Webb

Shannon Funchess" the first to accompany T.K. Webb on stage"To say we are pleased to release TK Webb's latest record, Phantom Parade, would be an understatement at best. When we first heard TK play th...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:14:00 GMT

TELEPATHE featured this week in XLR8R MAGAZINE I get a nod!

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Posted by on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:52:00 GMT