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About Me

Lorelei began in 1990 as a 5-piece in Washington, DC in the heyday of the city's indie scene, but quickly stripped down to 3 members in 1992 after one single. Lorelei released several recordings on Slumberland Records, including the 1994 LP, "Everyone Must Touch the Stove", plus a few things for other labels. Over the years, Lorelei often played live with our Slumberland labelmates - the Ropers, Small Factory, Whorl, Velocity Girl, Honeybunch, Jane Pow, the Swirlies, and the Lily's - and with the likes of the Wedding Present, Slowdive, Bailter Space, Unrest, Laika, Boyracer, and Labradford. Following the release of "Everyone Must Touch the Stove" and after playing together for almost 6 years, Lorelei members decided to move to different coasts and disband in 1996. From there, Lorelei members went off to persue other projects including LU, Chessie, Camping, and RDK.Following their hiatus as a band, lorelei began working together again in 2003, culminating in Lorelei's first release in eight years, the "Informed By The Future" 12" on Matt's Textilesounds imprint. In 2006, Lorelei's members found themselves back in Washington, DC and began playing and writing together again. Lorelei returned for their first show in 10 years on October 25th, 2006 and has since played occasionally since. Lorelei headed into the studio in December of 2007 to begin work on a series of new recordings for release in 2008.For booking information, please send us a message.

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Member Since: 8/8/2006
Band Website: textilesounds.com
Band Members: Matt Dingee, Stephen Gardner, Davis White
Influences: Virtual Flyer for Thursday's show
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Sounds Like: John Cage conducting Elvis Costello's performace of a Smiths' song in Moonshake's practice space
Unreleased video from 1992 "Mimesis."

Record Label: Textile Sounds, Slumberland Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Set Lists

I've been meaning to post these. Here's the newest set, I'll go look for some older sets and post them at this same blog.Lorelei w MahoganyBlack Cat, Wash DC 7/3/08Throwaway**Hammer Meet TongsCelebrit...
Posted by Lorelei on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:59:00 PST

Lorelei BYT Interview

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/interviews/byt-interview -lorelei/As most interviews, the focus is on our (from our perspective) laborious, increasingly irrelevant, reiterated early band history. M...
Posted by Lorelei on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:47:00 PST

New Recordings

We've be in the studio sporadically over the past 6 months recording and writing new songs. We're proud to annouce that Guy Fixsen, one of our favorite engineers and producers, will be mixing th...
Posted by Lorelei on Wed, 07 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

Loreleis Davis White releases e.p.

Quick link to grab the songs. Still available at archive.org, over 3,000 downloads so far.http://www.archive.org/details/zero078>RDKs 'Undisturbed e.p.' blends traditionally inspired spacemusic and se...
Posted by Lorelei on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:52:00 PST

Washington Post Review December 13, 2007

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12 /12/AR2007121202333.htmlMusicLorelei, Roaring Back to Life at the Black CatThursday, December 13, 2007; Page C08Britain was the birthplace o...
Posted by Lorelei on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:05:00 PST

Matt spinning vinyl at Marx Cafe's Taking the Piss night Friday April 20th

Matt from Lorelei will be spinning this Friday night, April 20th, at Marx Cafe's Taking the Piss night. Marx Cafe is located in Mt. Pleasant at 3203 Mount Pleasant St NW Washington, DC. More details....
Posted by Lorelei on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:59:00 PST