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"Invisible Jazz"

a book/cd

About Me

He's called the underground poet laureate of downtown Minneapolis. She is an internationally starring avant-garde singer/songwriter. With his gritty, street-wise verse and her dark, lush voice, they are forging Invisible Jazz, words and music that meld ancient Alexandria and medieval Paris with Neo-Platonism and baseball in a lyrical crucible fired by love and war and the mystical vision
T H A N KS TO THE FRIENDS BELOW PERFORMING
AT THE I N V I S I B L E J A Z Z RELEASE
09/28/2007 at the B E D L A M T H E A T R E

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/20/2005
Band Website: shillock.com
Band Members: Tabatha Predovich , vocals -
Christopher Shillock , lyrics -
David Gullickson, drums -
Rich Patterson, guitar -
Ike Russell, bass -
Tom Zosel, saxophone -
Ed Jirak, spoken word
Erin Muir, French vocals
Lynette Reini-Grandell, violin -
Vickijoan, choreography

Influences: Siouxsie & the Banshees, Throbbing Gristle, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen. Emma Goldman, Xanana Gusmão, Villon, Blake, Timbuktu, Heathen, Eddie and the Cruisers, Kavafis, Lawrence Durrell, Django, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa and Stravinsky.
Sounds Like: You decide!
Record Label: Musical Comedy Editions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

MORE SONGS (with all of Thunder) and a video

Thunder! the Mind's Consumation (from the Coptic)This is our BIG one. It's a translation/arrange of a Gnostic Hymn from the Chenoboskion Manuscriptalso listen to some more of our songs around the Inte...
Posted by "Invisible Jazz" on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 10:19:00 PST

REVIEWS - Press, Amazon & CDBaby

READ Rod Smith's review in the City PagesREAD Dwight Hobbes' interview.PURCHASE the Invisible Jazz book/cd at Mayday Books in Minneapolis, Amazon Books or  CDBaby. ...
Posted by "Invisible Jazz" on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:59:00 PST

What a song does, by JIM WALSH

Jim Walsh  writes: "A song explains yourself to yourself and to others, when even you or others don't have words or a clue. A song bonds you with hot-gun glue to those who aren't aroun...
Posted by "Invisible Jazz" on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:14:00 PST

DWIGHT HOBBES' Cover Story in the Pulse

You can read it HERE...
Posted by "Invisible Jazz" on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:35:00 PST

Mercedes Sosa - Gracias a la Vida

You may notice the face of an old Indian woman amongst my Friends, smiling benignly at the young lovelies who have been my recent collaborators.If you go to her site, the first song that comes up is G...
Posted by "Invisible Jazz" on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:08:00 PST