Music:
Member Since: 2/4/2005
Band Website: RykardaParasol.com
Band Members:
Rykarda Parasol: vocals & guitar
Wymond Miles: piano, organ , and guitar
Zach Brewer: bass & vox
Ryan Dylla: drums
Influences: william faulkner, federico garcia lorca, the bad seeds, erik satie, langston hughes, the gun club, ann radcliff, tennesse williams, pulp, velvet underground, samuel richards, david lynch, jeffrey eugenides, william auden, the doors, alexander pope, loretta lynn, edith piaf, ingmar bergman, edna saint millay, anton newcombe, screaming jay hawkins, nico, everett millet, william hogarth, claude debussy, iggy pop, serge gainsbourg, moliere, edgar allen poe, moll flanders, spiritualized, zorn, june carter cash, afghan whigs, dostoevsky, odd nerdrum, generación del ’27, christina rossetti.
Sounds Like:
Like
Duende! Like a real woman amidst smoke and whiskey. Like Edith Piaf meets the Animals. Like
Nico meets Nick Cave. Like Serge Gainsbourg’s cigarette. Never in sunlight
and not without pain and wit. From the feet and not the throat.
PRESS
& REVIEWS:
"In the lazy, hazy tradition of fellow salvation shucksters Nick Cave and
Siouxie Sioux, singer Rykarda Parasol leads this fourpiece from Frisco, delivering
a smoky, gin-tinged salve to soothe the souls of the wicked, like Opal, OP8,
and opium combined." -
Austin Chronicle, SXSW Picks.
"If Nick
Cave had a uterus and was impregnated by Johnny Cash, Rykarda Parasol would
be their talented daughter with the low voice." -
Crawdaddy.
"A genuine musical force in her own right with a Harvey-laced smokiness
to her voice, Parasol weaves gothic, bluesy tales of desire and strength, compassion
and solitude. She’s just what I need."
- San Francisco Bay Guardian.
"I love this
album. Really, I don’t even want to write anymore than that - just
leave you all hanging, so that you would always wonder and then make yourself
go and listen to it. Rykarda Parasol (not the easiest name to remember) is the
throaty singer-songwriter at the front of this folk/goth act... The stories
that these songs tell take you into places and situations that you don’t
want to be in, or would be uncomfortable in. "En Route" tells the
story of a woman being the only one with dry eyes at her man’s funeral.
"Night on Red River" really makes you think of walking down cold
unfriendly streets - alone and nervous. "Lonesome Place" touches
on race issues, telling the story of a Klansman’s attack and a lynching,
the Klansman saying "nigger/look me in the face/tell me you believe in
the great white race." Dark, brooding, haunting, ambient and intelligent
- that’s how I want to sum up this one."
- Two Way
Monologue.
Rolling Stone, Jan. 2008, Germany, 3.5 stars
Record Label: Glitterhouse Records
Type of Label: Indie
