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The Clockwork Dolls

About Me

The Clockwork Dolls began in 2007 with a simple concept: to create music that serves not only as a source for recreation but as a means of narration, a storyteller much like the days of old. The trio's strength rests in their unique combination of skills. Their music combines Allison Curval's knack for the fusing of traditional classical music with the epic sounds of contemporary musical scores and modern electronica with Helene De Fer's passion for poetic lyrics and Cedric Mayne's immersive musical style on the violin.

The music of The Clockwork Dolls involves an elaborate world that is simultaniously familiar and strange. It is one that is filled with flights of fancy, airships, and the technology of both past and future. With songs like Maiden Voyage telling the tale of a noble woman's dream of freedom and flight to the Ballad of Black Jack Jezebel, a story of a vengeful gambler set in the wild west, The Clockwork Dolls functions not only as a band but as a group of writers and actors telling a story of adventure, bravery, tragedy, and drama all mixed in with the occasional ho down.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/15/2008
Band Members:

Helene "Primes Your Guns" De Fer - Vocals/Lyrics

Allison "Whet Your Blades" Curval - Compositions/Keyboards

Cedric "Whose Fury Will be Dealt in Spades" Mayne - Violins

Contributors

Erik Sharrar - Acoustic Guitars - Black Jack Jezebel

Brennan Kuhns - Electric Guitars - Black Jack Jezebel

Frank Adams - Composition - Bridge Section Black Jack Jezebel
Influences: Emilie Autumn, Paul Roland, Depeche Mode, Malice Mizer, The Cure, Era, Enigma, Mira, Love Spirals Downward, Synth Pop, EBM, Visual Kei, Ambient Music, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, the list goes on...and..on
Sounds Like: Whatever we please. !!! Start Code To Apply Top Banner !!!! Custom top banner code by Eileen!!! End Code To Apply Top Banner !!!
Record Label: Gilded Age Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Band updates and News and Notes from Allison

Hello my sweets! It's your friendly neighborhood Allison coming to illuminate your illuminations. We have had quite an eventful weekend! I have unloaded several box loads of crap valuable studio stuff...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 19:54:00 GMT

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. --Robert Louis Stevenson

Vanity has always been a sore and difficult subject for me.  Allison and all my other nursemaids (and yes, I do mean *all* the others. There were so many I never remembered their names. Besides, they ...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 20:30:00 GMT

Update from Allison

Hello Friends, Family, and Fans!These next few weeks will be a bit on the quiet side we've got two tracks really left before putting everything through post production (mastered by none other than Mar...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 11:05:00 GMT

Weddings

I am excessively tired of hearing about weddings.  It seems that the 'season' is upon us, as though matrimony were a fruit that can be plucked from the tree of life once the weather becomes somewhat w...
Posted by on Sun, 03 May 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Impartial (The Battle)

Dear Reader, I'm proud to have on our myspace page the album version of Impartial with live violins as well as new vocals recorded by Helene De Fer. We felt over the past year that we've raised the ba...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:40:00 GMT

Lyrics to "Clockwork Maid"

Lyrics and Vocals by Helene De FerComposition by Allison CurvalLive Violin by Cedric MayneOrchestral Arrangement by Allison CurvalI am the governess, patient and true,Charged with the making a lady of...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:01:00 GMT

The nature of friendship

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Posted by on Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:23:00 GMT

As the pages turn . . .

Bonjour mes petites chattons! I hope each and every one of you is having a lovely day.  I know that I am!  The rain is finally gone and has left behind a glorious springtime.  To while away those long...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:07:00 GMT

Link to download Blades in Autumn

Hello fans of The Clockwork Dolls!We're in the studio working on more stuff to upload here but in the meanwhile it's come to our attention that Blades in Autumn does not stream properly sometimes. So....
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:56:00 GMT

How do you like your punk? Steamed please!

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, babies and babies!I present to you our musical collective, Gilded Age, who is now on our top friends list, I highly encourage you to add them. So...I bet some of ...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:31:00 GMT