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larissa maestro

to the vector belong the spoils

About Me

i love:
TRIXIE, sushi, fresh coconut, the cardigans, playing with candle wax, LOST, snowshoes, books by eric carle, good songs, corduroy, black and white movies, wombats, dive bars, tubing, wikipedia-ing, beatles gear, gala apples, records, grasshoppers, people who collect things, whispers.

i do not love:
cold feet, people who are too tan, getting stabbed while changing my guitar strings, lima beans, stale pita bread, drinking milk when i think it's going to be water, military/cop shows, cowbirds, lipliner, mean drunks, global warming, yelling, zombies, tom cruise, razor burn, seal clubbing.

for booking, please email booking @ larissamaestro.com .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/26/2006
Band Website: larissamaestro.com
Band Members: larissa : strings, pipes, ivories

favorite musical collaborators include:
kyle hurlbut : strums and drums and fee fi fo fums
adam popick : plucking strings and hard hitting sticks
adam ollendorff : slidy instruments
matt pynn : fa la la-ing and ryan adams covers
ruth collins : sweetness, like honey
james farrell : singing, making fun of stuff
james zaner
: drumming and toking
cam brousseau
: duke of drunkeness (and drums)

for booking, please email :
booking @ larissamaestro.com .

Influences: the beatles, the cardigans, alison krauss + union station, aimee mann, pablo neruda, ryan adams, emmylou harris, e.e. cummings, the jayhawks, roald dahl, gabriel garcia marquez, fleetwood mac, oliver sacks, billie holiday, audrey hepburn, wilco, coldplay, nada surf, thomas newman, danny elfman, jon brion

Sounds Like: meow

Record Label: little thrill records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

star trek: insurrection

yeah. it really does get better every time.
Posted by larissa maestro on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:31:00 PST

push me and merry christmas!

so i decided to post "push me" as a christmas gift to myself. it's not mixed and it's rough, but i like the song so much that i couldn't wait any longer to put it up. credits!song by: larissa maestro ...
Posted by larissa maestro on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:31:00 PST

ever wondered what i look like at 8:45 am?

now you don't have to wonder anymore.click here for our NECN tv performance, yeah....
Posted by larissa maestro on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:25:00 PST

featured review in dissolver magazine!

if you go to the dissolver magazine website, the first thing you'll see is a wonderful review of "maybe later" by mr. jon gorey. dissolver magazine rocks....
Posted by larissa maestro on Fri, 18 May 2007 03:38:00 PST

NEW SONGS UP AND RECORD FINISHED!!!

oh hell yeah.so... two new songs, new new brand new recordings... mixes...just want to give credit where credit is due.so youngwritten by meproduced by kyle hurlbutmixed by james zanerme: vocals, acou...
Posted by larissa maestro on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:07:00 PST

christmas in us

so i wrote a naughty christmas song. and then, i made a weird sloppy demo of it in my apartment (with a bad mic and crazy upstairs neighbors) so that all of you could listen to it and laugh. happy hol...
Posted by larissa maestro on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:04:00 PST

larissa on wwuh 91.3 in hartford, ct!

wanna hear larissa songs on the radio? if you're in the hartford area, tune in to wwuh 91.3 fm on november 25th between 6-9 am. yeah, i know it's early. but, should you be out of your turkey (or tofur...
Posted by larissa maestro on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:38:00 PST

my sister is a star!

my sister has been profiled on the berklee website as one of those exceptional students that kicks everyone else's ass. the reason? she's blossoming into an amazingly talented music therapist/humanita...
Posted by larissa maestro on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:01:00 PST

could you love me better

this is a very special song. i began writing it with my sister, amanda, in january when she had just returned from a trip to kenya and tanzania. she was there visiting orphanages and using her growing...
Posted by larissa maestro on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:59:00 PST

wanna hear me sing filipino music??

this week we'll be pressing 250 copies of the "one breath one life" ep, recorded specifically for the british columbia committee for human rights in the philippines. i've recorded two songs in tagalog...
Posted by larissa maestro on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:02:00 PST