Stormy Laughter

Music:

Member Since: 5/7/2006
Band Website: stormylaughter.com/home.html
Band Members: Stormish. Storm Garner, that is. And her pet Giraffe. Sometimes also her violin Zelinda (born in Prague in 1925). I am grateful to my previous collaborators: Jonathan Vincent (piano, accordion, free improving, some arrangements, patience, USA), Paul Schneiter (drums on a version of Serengeti, sound-engineer in Paris), Aurélien Barbelosi (guitar on a version of Xanadu, Paris), Ryan Snow (trombone, live in NYC in Cows and Moons, free improving, good advice) AND I AM CURRENTLY SEARCHING FOR NYC-BASED MUSICIANS TO COLLABORATE WITH! Please contact me if interested in joining in on the Stormy Laughter fun! For booking or any other business that might like to expand beyond the confines of myspace messaging boxes or that might want answering before this time next month, please email Storm/management at: [email protected]
Influences: Phil Ochs; George Gershwin; Björk; Leonard Cohen; Nico; Velvet Underground; Bob Dylan; Portishead; Radiohead; Animal Collective; Fiona Apple; Joanna Newsom; Yoko Ono; Scott Walker; IAM ; Tricky; Kate Bush; Elliot Smith; Nick Drake; Magnetic Fields; Carl Orff; Bulat Okudzava; Sibelius; Borodin; Arvo Pärt; Joni Mitchell; Henryk M. Górecki; Kapelaze-wsi-Warsza-wa; Stereolab; Aphex Twin; Eminem; Billie Holiday; Krishna Das; Paul Simon; Sigur Ros; Blue Man Group; Philip Glass; David Hykes; Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev; Keith Jarrett; Citizen Cope; Devendra Banhart; Orlando di Lasso; J. S. Bach; Georges Moustaki; Paris métro music; Carl Stalling Loony Tunes music; klezmer; Balkan folk music; Breton Celtic folk music; Edith Piaf; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; whoever wrote the song "Heffalumps and Woosels" in Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery DayClyfford Still; William de Kooning; Francis Bacon; Alexander Calder; Edward Hopper;T. S. Eliot; Joseph Conrad; Nabokov; Kierkegaard; Goethe; Bertolt Brecht; Bertrand Russell; Plato; Edward Gorey; Aristotle; Boris Vian; Rainer Maria Rilke; Simone de Beavoir; Euclid; the Hirshhorn museum; circuses; the disenfranchised residents of Washington DC;real live people (yes, you too!), plants, other life-forms, food (raw and organic), places, magic rocks; the unknown.
Sounds Like: The songs that fly around in your head when you've just realized you're not dead. That's literally what they are. Other people's opinions: Alex: the lovechild of Nico and Tom Waitts. Mathilde: Kurt Weill, Marlene Dietrich, Bertolt Brecht, the whole trio, mostly in reference to the Cows and Moons song, I think. Joey: a less-depressed Joanna Newsom. Mama: as varied and randomly poetic as Bob Dylan. Thank you Mama. Joni Mitchell? Who said Janis Joplin? Someone... Oh and then there are the amanda Palmer/ Dresden Dolls comparisons, probably due to the theatricality of my performances. Emily and Sasha: the Beatles, but that was for "Go out and Play," my pop song (no kidding) which has not yet been officially recorded... Nice comparison, though, no? That's what friends are for... Oh and I've heard Regina Spektor too, and PJ Harvey somehow. And Bjork. But all that's really vague. Funny how when you think about it, everything new we experience, we experience through things we already are familiar with. Seems we can't do it any other way...
Record Label: Find me a label and I'll bless your first-born!
Type of Label: None