mm471: Art and artists

August 17, 2008

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MUDGE’s Musings

The photo was taken under desperately overmatched conditions at a live concert in a Chicago club called Subterranean last night.

The track just below the photo was the number performed, called “Juicy Love,” a track on a new release by MUDGElet No. 3, AKA Release. The soloist, who goes by the nom de musique Scarlet Monk, also wrote the lyrics for that track.

She’s front and center, the composer, producer and evening’s promoter can be discerned, only sketchily, in the background. He was fully there, mind you, but the camera phone I used was not up to the task of getting a decent shot under low light conditions from our perch in the balcony.

Here’s a track showcasing some more of the electronic artistry of Release:

The concert was the release party for the new album, which by the way, is available (as of this writing) as a free download at his colleague’s website: cichi.com, which also provides a MySpace link to the artist, himself. Check it out.

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