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Luminescent Orchestrii

GYPSY TANGO KLEZMER PUNK

About Me

Putumayo records is putting out a dance remix of one of our tunes on an upcoming Balkan dance music CD. Upcoming tours include North Carolina, South Carolina and Knoxville, Scotland, Sweden and France!
"The balancing of frenzy and finesse is evidently a trademark Luminescent Orchestrii approach, displayed to its utmost in the insanely frenetic dance tunes... The three violins flirt willfully with a cacophony teasingly offset by elegant classical flourishes, swirling and eddying above the rhythm section's bruisingly aggressive but sharply-aimed attack." **** (four star review at The Edinburgh Fringe 2005) -THE SCOTSMAN.
Romanian gypsy melodies, punk frenzy, salty tangos, hard rocking klezmer, haunting Balkan harmony, hip-hop beats and Appalachian fiddle, all eaten and spit out by three violins, resophonic guitar, bullhorn harmonica and 3/4 Argentinian bass.
The Luminescent Orchestrii has developed a reputation for ecstatic live performances and infectious onstage energy.
BELOW -Photos from New Years with the Dresden Dolls, Meow Meow and more!
go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumii/ for more pictures!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/28/2004
Band Website: lumii.org
Band Members: The members of the Orchestrii come from different backgrounds and scenes in New York City. Sxip Shirey (resophonic guitar, bullhorn harmonicas, melodica) is an international circus composer, Sarah Alden (violin, vocals) is an old time fiddle player, Rima Fand (violin, viola, and vocals) is a theater composer, and Benji Fox-Rosen (mini-double bass) is a free jazz player that loves tango and Missy Elliot.
Influences: Taraf De Haidouks, Dead Kennedys – ‘Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables’, Best of Doc Watson, Stravinsky – ‘Rite of Spring’, Bulgarian Women's Choir, Mingus – ‘The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady’, The Creatures – ‘Boomerang’, X – ‘Under The Big Black Sun’, Legendary Pink Dots – ‘Crushed Velvet Apocalypse’, Besho Drom – ‘Can't Make Me’, Can – ‘Tago Mago’, Miles Davis – ‘Dark Magus’, Bubba George Stringband, Pixies – ‘Come on Pilgrim’, Nina Simone – ‘Live at the Village Gate’
Sounds Like: Well, we dont sound like any of them, but some of our mates are Gogol Bordello, Slavic Soul Party, The Dresdin Dolls, Nervous Cabaret, The Wiyos, Romashka, The Hungry March Band, Human Wine, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Beth Cohen, Bob Cohen, Project Jenny Project Jan, Curtis Eller, Zero Boy, The Can Kickers, Shelly Watson, Romashka, Kultur Shock, Zagnut Cirkus Orchestar, Alec Redfern and the Eyesores, Stephan Wrembel and Guignol.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

those Dresden Dolls fans rock fcking rock

To the Brigaders who came out to our show in Frammingham. My god you are just the most lovely people on the planet. Thank you.
Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:33:00 PST

an amazingly lovely story from Knoxville

I really enjoyed the Blue Plate Special today. Thanks so much for inviting me and reminding me. I got in there a few minutes after they started playing and grabbed a sandwich and stood at one of the t...
Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:02:00 PST

Luminescent Orchestrii with Dresden Dolls

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Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:34:00 PST

slaughtering pigs with the Luminescent Orchestrii

The Luminescent Orchestrii is touring in Vermont"You can stay at our place after the gig but we got some pig stuff to do in the morning" Amos tells us. What he doesn't tell us till we get there is tha...
Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:59:00 PST

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Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 04:15:00 PST

Check out this video: Luminescent Orchestrii (1) "Pecto Rubuli" at Shakori Hills

Check out this video: Luminescent Orchestrii (1) "Pecto Rubuli" at Shakori Hills Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:13:00 PST

more UK dates!

Hello folks, the tour has been amazing so far. We had a brilliant first week in the UK, amazing shows in Paris and France, Austria has been incredible. Met a wonderful currator here. AND NOW back to t...
Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:42:00 PST

duck hearts

The Luminescent Orchestrii is playing a wonderful festival in a small town in France called Hastings. The French accordion player and I are having lunch. I got the steak instead of the duck hearts. "W...
Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:05:00 PST

uk! France! Austria! Fringe!

all the info is here!http://www.lumii.org/tour
Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:51:00 PST

A lovely blog from a person who put us up in SC....

a blog from a lovely person who put us up in South Carolinahttp://furyblog.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html Thursday, February 22, 2007The ultimate haywire comes home to roost.On Monday morning I w...
Posted by Luminescent Orchestrii on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:57:00 PST