CD release details & an interview with Shara & puppeteer Lake Simons
June 10, 2008 · Print This Article
Last year, URB magazine ran a special issue on relationships between women artists. Shara chose to invite puppeteer Lake Simons! For those of you who either haven’t seen this article, or are trying to get in the Pierrot Punk mood for the June 17th CD release Eeeeeextravaganza next week, this article might be of interest. At the Blender Theater on Tuesday, Lake will perform with puppets to the delightful sounds of songwriter/composer John Dyer, as well as an opening act by circus composer Sxip Shirey. There will be face painting, party hats and hip swaying. Wear black and white and we will pretend we are all punk kids who were transported by a magic spaceship back to France in 1911! The band will be falling off the stage. MBD doesn’t have a formation name for this! Maybe it’s just Extravaganza formation! We’ve got so many instruments and fantabulous players galore: marimba and vibes player (can you say vibe-ist?) – Thom Kozumplik, drummer – Brian Wolfe, bassist – Nathan Lithgow, string quartet – Osso (Rob Moose, Olivier Manchon, Marla Hansen & Maria Jeffers), french horn player – Michael Atkinson, bassoonist – Sara Schoenbeck and guitarist/clarinetist – Sebastian Krueger. Aw yeah! 
aaaaaaaaahhhh!!!! any chance to see this in some DVD release or something like??? looks terrific! Luv the Alice’s tale!
New listener here! I gotta say, I don’t fall for new music very often, but A Thousand Shark’s Teeth is incredible. There is so much depth and so many naunces. Sometimes there’s a new song by an artist that’s pretty good, but your whole album is great. Makes me want to start singing again :P
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Shara. Saw your show tonight at Blender. I wanted to be the first to tell you, at least in this blog: you were fantastic (in spite of the acoustical kookiness) !! Truly you are a badass performer. The whole subway ride home, I couldn’t stop projecting residual goodness at the indifferent strangers. Thank you. <3
p.s. sxip & lake were also brilliant. thx for sharing!
My best friend won the best gift yesterday: 2 tickets to see The Brightest Diamond. An amazing performance! Just epoustouflant!!!!! Every single person on this stage was just so creative, giving and just so amazing!!! merci merci merci!!!
Nous avons acheter le cd tout de suite et nous l’avons joue des que nous sommes rentre a la maison!!! double the pleasure!!! :0)
Shara: tu es incroyable, vraiment merveilleuse!!
Love….Ludivine
You are such a valuable treasure.
your arrangements and instrumentation are not only beautiful, but i learn so much. your compositions far outshine almost everything i else i listen to. thank you for the effort, time and energy put into every song.
oh, and will there be some dvd of this performance?
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