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Little Aida

CHANT DOWN BABYLON

About Me


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NEWS ALERT:
Following the mixing of their latest release "MAD COUNTRY" with KRAMER at his Florida studio, Australian-born band LITTLE AIDA has signed with SECOND SHIMMY.
Why?
"Because the production genius of Susannah Rubinstein weaves an elegantly simple yet emotionally charged aural tapestry 'round Tessa Rubinstein's soul-tingling, siren-like voice, giving birth to a bright palette of sounds and imagery never before imagined." - Kramer
The forthcoming cd will be released in the US & UK and Europe May 20, 2007.
Little Aida rummage through the madness of collective "reality" in search of the spirit. Creating a soundtrack for the apocalypse, Little Aida frame their unique vision of the world with enigmatic imagery that twists the imagination. Written on their travels, the music is instilled with memories of the disturbed European fairytale, the vast Australian desert skies, and the Californian dream.
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The following two excerpts are from published reviews of LITTLE AIDA's previous release:
"Tessa's vocals follow the torch song legacy all the way from Billie Holiday to Beth Gibbons...the first time you hear this record will be very special indeed." - (MELODY MAKER)
"It's all deeply melacholic...and Tessa's voice slips through the whole thing like the last ghost in the cemetery. Simply a classic." - (MUZIK)



MAD COUNTRY Second Shimmy 2007 (May 20)



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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/17/2006
Band Website: littleaida.com
Band Members:

Tessa: vocals, guitar // Susannah: backing vocals, keys // Ewan: bass, guitar, sitar // S. John Hoy: guitar // Saul Smith: drums


Influences: pow-wow, musicals, views from airplanes, nature documentaries, Miyazaki Hayao "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind," Alejandro Jodorowsky "The Holy Mountain," Neil Young, Joan Baez, Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, Portishead, Norse mythology, the weather, temperature, the moon, stone circles, tears, pain, boredom, The Simpsons, clocks, cars, bass culture, computers, coffee, quantum theory, the apocalypse, slaughter houses, factory farms, robots, artificial intelligence, petroleum products, the Bible, bugs, deep sea creatures, witches, the Dreamtime, Murakami Haruki "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle," Murakami Ryu "Coin Locker Babies," flowers, desert, druids, organic permaculture eco-communes, high rise apartments, neon-lights, asian cities, forests, fossils, telescopes, night-vision goggles, activists, sex, race horses, highways, freeways, suicide bombers, climate change, history, Gandhi, crows, cows, Malcolm X, Chrissie Hynde, Baraka, Surplus, synaesthesia, plastic packaging, pasta, rice, beans, tequlia, love, hate, violence, oppression, Buddha, heaven & hell, dancing, sleeping, humming birds, politicians, autism, Jim Jarmusch, Carlos Castañeda, Frida Kahlo, Charlie Kaufman, Alice Walker, collective consciousness, guns, ghosts, ancestral spirits, mist, mountains, rivers, cacti, rocks, C.S. Lewis "Chronicles of Narnia," Lewis Caroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," Lian Hearn "Tales of the Otori," genetic memory, astrology, water shortages, circuses, zoos, civil liberties, war, Aldous Huxley "Brave New World," George Orwell "1984," Art Speigelman "Maus," Stephen Hawkings "A Brief History of Time," Matt Rubinstein "A Little Rain on Thursday," Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Tolkien "The Silmarillon," animals, animal rights, humans, human rights, vegetarians, vegans, consumption, babies who remember their past lives, cowboys and injuns...


Sounds Like:

Video for "Each Measure" (Second Shimmy 2007) filmed in Poland by Karl Allen, starring Tessa

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Record Label: Second Shimmy
Type of Label: Indie