Hot and Rising A Troop of Echoes traffic in catchy three-to-four minute blasts that both challenge and reward. Anchored by the furious (FURIOUS) rhythm section of Dan Moriarty (drums) and Harrison Hartley (bass), the melodic playground is left free for guitarist Nick Cooper and saxophonist Peter Gilli. Together, they marry the frantic noise of Sonic Youth's most avant-garde wet dreams with hypnotizing melodies that stick in the brain like hit singles from some bizarre parallel universe where Brian Eno and Paul McCartney put out successful duo records.
9/2/11 Piano’s in NYC. Conveyor’s record release show. http:// atroopofechoes. bandcamp.com
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Hannah Judson is a singer/songwriter originally from the east coast, who decamped to Paris, France in 2005. She plays in and around Paris, and put out a CD this past spring called “Underbelly” with producer Michel Esquelin. Her sound has been compared with Cat Power, Lucinda Williams and Michelle Shocked. Underbelly’s songs serve as stories where a sequence of characters, male and female, fall, leap, love, lie, argue, explain and hope. Judson brings a sense of hope and humor to these stories. She claims as songwriting influences Leonard Cohen and Liz Phair. "Hannah is performing in and around Paris, Judson moved to France from Chicago where she had gone to graduate school at the School of the Art Institute to study painting and art France this fall. http://www.hannahjudson.com/concerts.html education. While in graduate school she formed her first band, Salt Lick, a grunge 4 piece located in Wicker Park. She continued playing music, www.HannahJudson.com influenced by the vibrant Chicago alt-country and alternative rock scene, as well as painting, and teaching art and design. The move to France was creatively liberating, but her work maintains a www.CDbaby.com/cd/hannahjudson definitely American perspective.
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