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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Artist Spotlight: Celebration




Genre: Psychedelic Cabaret-Punk

Junkies' Description:
Baltimore based psychedelic cabaret-punk trio Celebration is composed of vocalist/percussionist Katrina Ford, multi-instrumentalist Sean Antanaitis, and drummer David Bergander. One of the things that sets Celebration apart is the influence of cabaret culture on the band members, which shows up in their sound and their stage show. Another is Katrina’s amazingly versatile voice. At times Katrina’s voice reminds me of Grace Slick, at other times it reminds me of a female Nick Cave. Their music is pretty far out... their former label 4ad phrased it best on their profile: “ It's a celebration, all right. A visceral, full-throated, kinetic celebration of the power of music to take you out of yourself and into a strange new space peopled by angels, devils and white hot electricity.”
Celebration is currently working on their Electric Tarot project. The project is so named because each song represents a card in a virtual tarot deck.


Album: Hello Paradise






DOWNLOAD Hello Paradise for FREE from Bandcamp


Links:
Website
Myspace
Blogspot




Official Bio:
Greetings Dear Ones,
We, as Celebration, have felt the continual growth of web culture's need for barrier-free exchange. We also feel that the traditional methods of releasing music have put too much distance between us. As we see it, the current music business model is crumbling. We believe their methods waste resources and time in a "print for market world" that no longer makes sense. The birth of the MP3 has dreamt the death of the CD format, and so all across the board, CD sales have dropped. What has given way is something so magical and evolutionary, music has grown, that we have only begun to understand the cultural impact of this sharing. So, past the piles of broken CD cases and badly scratched polycarbonate rainbow discs, there lies a fantastic world of freedom --freedom to share instantly with little or no impact on the environment, in a seemingly infinite, eternal and virtually cost free universe of the world wide web. This is our emancipation. Without the need for manufacturing CDs and the danse macabre of the promotional corporate machine, we can be free to release our music when and how we want --no waiting. We know nothing of the marketing world and don't care about the vampires any more.
Our plan and experiment is to post new songs monthly, as we create and record them. Under the creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license. all of our new music will be free to download on our new website launching this Spring Equinox, March 21st 2009. When we have enough music for an album, we will release it on vinyl for those who want to have something to hold. As artists we can only stand for our music, our art, our creation. So here it is laid bare. Some may say we are fools. If we be fools, then let us be the Fool of the tarot. The Fool card of the tarot represents a leap of faith, a leap into the unknown, a trust in the adventure of chance. It is in this spirit that we are unveiling a multidimensional, interactive musical Tarot deck, on our new website. We are constructing an experimental place to experience and share our musical vision with you. We strongly encourage you to blog, podcast, email and share links to our music and our site with others. We will post stems in the near future for remixing. If we like your remix, we will post it on our site. This experiment is funded solely by us and those of you who choose to be a part of making the music available. We've added a donation box to the site in hopes that you, our audience, can help support the artist's right to autonomy. Thank you!
So with a leap of faith and fortune, we turn the fate of our future to you. We look forward to the time and moment when we share our music with you --it is our greatest joy.
Love,
Celebration

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