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Lacy James

About Me

Lacy James is a singer/songwriter, dancer and choreographer. She coproduced her debut CD Lovefeast with Jim Gallagher at the Gamble-Huff and Kajem/Victory studios in Philadelphia, where the basic tracks were enhanced by many wonderful guest musicians. In "Song of Songs," Old Testament love poetry drifts through a heavenly arrangement of Arabic and Indian drums, flute and keyboards. "Silverback," based on the life of gorilla researcher Dian Fossey, blends thundering drums and African percussion with ethereal sounds from a variety of sources: guitars, bass, sythesizers and the Rwandan gorillas themselves. Lacy's dance company, Mereminne Dancers, has performed extensively in New York City and her choreography has also been presented in Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Germany. Most recently, Lacy has been composing electronic soundscores for some of her choreography.

Visit Mereminne Well at mereminne.com for lots more!


The 10-song Lovefeast CD is available for purchase (CD or digital version) at CDBaby.com
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"Song of Songs" (excerpt) Concept by Lacy James; choreography by Ronen Koresh; produced by 8th Dimension Films


Get this video and more at MySpace.com

from osmosis - April 13 & 14, 2007

some shots from Birdsong Sketches/Oracle/disSolve subMerge...thank you to the beautiful dancers at UNCG! (Videographers: closeups - Katherine Stroscio; wide shots - Amy Brinkheide)


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/17/2006
Band Website: mereminne.com
Band Members: Musicians appearing on Lovefeast: guitars Mark Duffy, Anthony Ferrara, Erik Rex; bass Jamie Arnold, Jimmy Williams; drums Rich Ivanisi; percussion Ron Howerton, Shawnnea Lance; MIDI wind (WX7) Ron Kerber; Indian woodwinds Paul Alexandre John; tablas Lenny Seidman; doumbek Joey Tayoun; keyboards/programming John Avarese, Geoff Fala, Jim Gallagher, Lacy James, Drew Raison, Brian Shaw; vocals Lacy James; gorilla luv bvox Jim Gallagher.
Sounds Like:

"Kate Bush/Tori Amos feel with an exotic Middle Eastern twist.... a sumptuous affair" - Philadelphia City Paper

"A host of multicultural influences come into play.... Similar in nature -- but not necessarily in style -- to singers like Ofra Haza, Sinead O'Connor and Enya... delicate and ethereal, with a molten core and a clear, strong delivery....hauntingly embracing; there's also a real sense of movement here, which may be due in part to her background as a dancer as well as a musician. You can almost feel a physical expression manifested in the turn of an instrument or a percussive rhythm" - Big Shout


Record Label: Mereminne Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

about the new tracks

The two new tracks (Curiosity and the excerpt from River Solos) are from the soundscores I made for Osmosis. As you can probably tell, not all of the voices are mine (you know who you are)... ;-)
Posted by Lacy James on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:28:00 PST

OSMOSIS! (scroll down to check out the slideshow on this page)

This Greensboro is not in New Mexico... despite what MySpace seems to think, this Greensboro is in North Carolina. So, if you are going to be in NC, save the dates:UNC-Greensboro Department of Dance ...
Posted by Lacy James on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:17:00 PST

howdy

hey y'allfor now I'm down in NChope you like the music...♥Lacy
Posted by Lacy James on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:25:00 PST