Aepril Schaile and the Judgement

About Me

THE FURIES' PRAYER AVAILABLE NOW!
Aepril Schaile and the Judgement is currently working toward creating a more theatrical production, using Aepril's background in dance and theater for a new dark mistresspiece!. Keep checking back for updates on this page, in our blogs, and at www.aeprilschaile.com
AEPRIL SCHAILE is a mournful, prosecuting specter and a living, ravenous mother-wolf hell-bent on delivering new life. Once a skeleton woman in a shack on the outskirts of town, the spirits of Music came to Aepril after shed died, and then gasped and jolted back to life, the Dead and the Wild her ardent and adamant muses...
Aepril is spending the curse on the house of Schaile, banishing the demons and placating the gods with the plutonian musicians of THE JUDGEMENT (named so for Trump XX of the tarot: the card of the resurrection of the dead and the salvation of the exiled)....At turns forbidding and vulnerable, venomous and erotic, the show has a shamanistic quality, with Aepril as the twice-born haunted medium, conducting a seance for the enraged, unrelenting spirits of the ill-fortuned and forsaken...To contact Aepril Schaile and The Judgement, visit www.aeprilschaile.com .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/7/2005
Band Website: http://www.aeprilschaile.com"aeprilschaile.com
Band Members: AEPRIL SCHAILE: piano/keyboard, vocals

MICHAEL MAZZENGA: drums/percussion, live backing vocals
PERI BRACY: bass

other musicians on recordings etc.:
ADAM TRULL: trumpet
JERUSHA ROBINSON: cello, backing vocals
ROBIN FETKHE: violin on all tracks included on this page

Influences: Musical: Nico (solo), Diamanda Galas, Grace Slick, PJ Harvey, Iron Maiden, Beethoven, Sixteen Horsepower, Dead Can Dance, Metallica, Michael Nyman, Sinead O'Connor, Patti Smith, Johnny Cash, Moon Lay Hidden, traditional middle eastern...

...personal tragedy and regeneration; a recognition and contemplation of collective suffering...the touch of the Dark Goddess...the haunting of ancestors....the daimon...the trickster...the Sacred Whore...Mary Magdelene, Persephone, The Furies, Aphrodite...an obsession with the intersections of fate, sex, death, violence and the holy....
Astrology (especially in regard to the mysteries of Pluto, as in Liz Greene's Astrology of Fate), Jungian psychology, Wilhelm Reich's The Murder of Christ, Peter Redgrove's The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real, medieval fairytale and ancient myth, Greek tragedy, "heretical" Christianity, Spiritualism, the remote wild coast of Maine and woods of New England.
Sounds Like: The Portland Phoenix says: "sprawling dark songs with elements of gothic pop and classical music. Picture the illegitimate offspring of PJ Harvey and Nick Cave raised in an abandoned concert hall..." Face Magazine: "Like Grace Slick with black lipstick" Click on the picture for more reviews

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My Blog

Gothic Beauty Review

AEPRIL SCHAILE AND THE JUDGEMENT "The Furies’ Prayer" www. aeprilschaile. com Aepril Schaile’s prophetic, dangerous, mad-priestess delivery needs a listener with a strong constitution, pre...
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:04:00 PST

"The Furies’ Prayer" is now also available on iTunes!

The Furies' Prayer is now also available on iTunes!http://cdbaby.com/cd/asatj for the link, or to listen.More news soon!
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:39:00 PST

A Night of Wyrdery and Cacaphony...rare show with AS& the J

We're playing a rare show this weekend at the Eagle's Nest:"A Night of Wyrdery and Cacaphony featuring Spires That In the Sunset Rise ( http://www.myspace.com/spiresthatinthesunsetrise ) Aepril Schail...
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:01:00 PST

Morbid Outlook review

reviewer: Andrew Fennerread more: Morbid OutlookAepril Schaile and the Judgement The Furies' Prayer (5/07)"This album could justifiably be titled "Wrath of the Witch", dealing, as it seems, with th...
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:28:00 PST

New song uploaded from the Odyssey; what's next for AS&J

I've uploaded a new song: A Gathering of Shades. The title was taken from Book Eleven of the The Odyssey.It was just AWESOME working on The Odyssey with Vivid Motion. This is my secong time working wi...
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:08:00 PST

The Odyssey: Tickets on sale now!

Vivid motion presents: The OdysseyAt St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center, Portland, MEFriday June 8 at 7:30 pmSaturday June 9 at 7:30 pmSunday June 10 at 1:30 pm. Tickets on sale now! The Odyssey, ...
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Sun, 20 May 2007 07:24:00 PST

Review in Dark Realms Magazine...and a local mention..

Thank you to Dark Realms magazine and reviewer Camille Ambrose! We are honored to receive this mention in the current issue (26): "Aepril Schaile and the Judgement put forth a bold progressive effort ...
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:08:00 PST

Land of the Dead/dark music of Boston

Aepril is composing and choreographing for Portland dance company Vivid Motion's spring show, The Odyssey. Aepril Schaile and the Judgement will record her composition for "The Land of the Dead". The ...
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:20:00 PST

Aepril Schaile and the Judgement News Updates!

A few AS&J news bites:New interview with Aepril in AEA zine (3/4/07)It's been confirmed! Aepril is one of the SCARIEST front-people in Portland! This is according to an article in the 2/23/07 edition ...
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 06:25:00 PST

Two new reviews for The Furies' Prayer

On Collected Sound, a site "celebrating independent musicians" a Review by Anna Maria Stj..rnell:Aepril Schaile scares me. The intensity on her and her bands debut album is frightening and persuasive....
Posted by Aepril Schaile and the Judgement on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:03:00 PST