photo: Thomas Appel. art: Lorenzo Commisso
Avant Electro-Dub artist Honeychild Coleman has garnered comparisons to Bjork , Miriam Makeba (Greg Tate, VIBE), Kate Bush and Sarah Vaughn (Teresa Wiltz, The Washington Post). Subway busking, and weekly sets with DJs Olive (weâ„¢ /Liminal), Sasha Crnobrnja (Organic Grooves), Lloop (weâ„¢), Delmar (Jungle Sky), Fred Ones (Mike Ladd/Sonic Sum) and Badawi (Raz Mesinai) and contributed to the unique niche that Coleman created within the underground electronic scene of the mid-90's. Her club-to-studio path led to recording with weâ„¢ (whose set she gate-crashed at Le Fin de Siecle Festival in Nantes, France), Badawi, Sasha Crnobrnja (Codek), Spectre (whose film "Crooked" she appears in), Greg Tate's Burnt Sugar Arkestra (electric dulcimer), Shiner Massive Soundsystem, Death Comet Crew (feat. Rammellzee), Apollo Heights (vocals on TVOTR's Dave Sitek's remix of "Disco Lights" and their cover of House of Love's "Christine"), and Italian electronic group HERE: Jim "Phylr" Coleman(Cop Shot Cop), M.Teho Teardo (Matera / Meathead) and Matteo Dainese (DEJLIGT/ Jitterbugs /Meathead / Ulan Bator), with whom she toured Italy three times.
From 1998 onward Honeychild has also balanced fronting her own alt-rock band (singing/writing/playing guitar), organizing "riott" shows with fellow Sistagrrls & "Afropunk" documentary artists (Simi / Suffrajett, Maya Goddess,Tamar-kali) all over NYC's East Village (3 Riotts at CBGB's, R.I.P.), opening for Cibo Matto, Rasputina, Radio 4, Mike Ladd, Sarah Dougher, Beans, Imani Coppola and TV on The Radio, releasing CDs on her bedroom label 8RM Records Brooklyn (USA), playing and touring (2nd guitar) with Apollo Heights (US / UK / Europe) and spinning records as DJ Sugarfree. Solo experimental sets at DJ Olive and Toshio K's Pheno_mena(Tonic) sparked a year-long project with visual artist Jane D'Arensbourg. The duo performed at Sin-e, Rooftop Films, and SHARE, went on a D.I.Y. tour of Europe at the Wooshi-Wooshi and Cable Records festivals (Barcelona), The OskarvonMillerStrasse Gallery/Performance space (Frankfurt) and opened for Peaches at the CO-OP Club (Berlin) before returning home to perform during the 2003 AIM 23 Opening at the Bronx Museum. Subject of music documentary "Fireflies" (Austria), Coleman's compositions also appear in Robin Wright Penn's "Sorry Haters " (IFC), award-winning "P.R" (Greece/UK), art quarterly ESOPUS 7 (USA), and the Black Rock Coalition's "Rock'n'Roll Reparations"
With over a decade of professional session recording under her belt, Honeychild invited a few friends into the studio for Halo Inside (Come la Luna) Matteite / Infecta Suoni Affini (Venus) Records: MC NatureBoy Jim Kellyâ„¢ (New Kingdom), DJ Olive, The Mad Professor, Robin Guthrie (The Cocteau Twins), and Matteo Dainese (co-producer with Max Stirner). A few previously released gems by Molecule (France), Mango Moonpie (AKA So'Lil's Ben Malkin) and I DUB NY (featuring legendary reggae producer Lloyd 'Bullwackie' Barnes) found their way to the album as well, rounding out the story that is Halo Inside (Come la Luna). The album drops June 2008 in Italy and iTunes, followed by a tour of Italy in August, ending with a few intimate dates in France and Sweden.
AFFILIATIONS: The Sistagrrls (Since 1998), ASCAP (Since 1996), The Black Rock Coalition (Since 2005).
