Bianca Casady & The C.i.A announces her album release for Oscar Hocks on January 22nd and shares a J.M. Muellan-directed video for the lead track "Poor Deal" HEREtoday. The visual artist J.M. Muellan is a long time collaborator and part of the band. Bianca Casady is currently out for a 22-date tour in Europe performing the new music staged in a theater-like setting. Bianca has created a small book of poems, photographs and fragments titled "Porno Thietor", that include portraits of the characters who live in her songs. The book can be found online as a limited edition with purchase of the deluxe vinyl HERE and available on tour.
With her sister Sierra, Bianca Casady has created the great surreal Pop-Art-World called CocoRosie. About her solo work, she says:
"I often played the dark side of CocoRosie. And now I don't have to worry about being too dark, too scary, too weird."
Bianca Casady once more steps out of the familiar CocoRosie context to embark on a new musical-performance project, "Porno Thietor". Together with dancer Bino Sauitzvy, and musicians Michal Skoda, Takuya Nakamura, Doug Wieselman, and visual artist/pianist J.M.Ruellan, who form the C.i.A. she explores the mechanical-theatrics of performing music. This "show" is an introspective and intimate performance which often crosses over into territories of ritual, nightmare and fantasy. She has invited performance artists Lærke Grøntved to perform and sing backing vocals as well as scenographer Corentin JPM Leven doing light/video and stage design, both whom she recently created the theater work Mother Hunting which premiered at the National Theater in Oslo last March. Together with this artistic team she brings new songs in a multi-media performance to stages across Europe and later in North America. In early 2016 her record will be released via FANTASYmusic in Europe and Atlas Chair in North and South America. Pitchfork revealed the track "Poor Deal" earlier. Casady designs a mysterious and suggestive parallel world starting from an untuned piano, a dusty typewriter and a pile of broken umbrellas.
Her songs are performative gems from a strange music Wonderland, which can now be experienced in a concert performance. The show has been premiered on August 6th at Summer
Festival Kampnagel in Hamburg, followed by Zurcher Theaterspektakel, David Byrne's London Meltdown Festival, and
Berlin PopKultur amongst others.
Bianca Casady & The C.i.A's "Porno Thietor" live shows:
11-13 Brussels, Belgium - Botanique Orangerie
11-14 Den Haag, Netherlands - Crossing Border Festival
11-15 Frankfurt, Germany - Mousonturm
11-16 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso Noord
11-17 Köln, Germany - Kulturkirche Köln
11-18 München, Germany - Kammerspiele
11-19 Wien, Austria - Brut
11-21 Bern, Switzerland - Dampfzentrale
11-23 Milano, Italy - Bellezza
11-24 Roma, Italy - Teatro Studio
11-25 Bologna, Italy - Locomotive
11-26 Firenze, Italy - Viper
11-28 Marseille, France - Espace Julien
11-30 Paris, France - L'Alhambra
12-01 Brighton, England - Corn Exchange
12-02 Bristol, England - The Lantern
12-03 London, England - ATP Pop-Up Venue
Bianca Casady & The C.i.A - Oscar Hocks track listing:
(pre-order
HERE to receive instant grat "Poor Deal")
01. Poor Deal
02. Hay Lofts
03. Daisy Chain
04. Hobo
06. Roadkill
07. Oscar Hocks
08. Dead Season
09. Lordess Moon
10.
Miracle of a Rose
11. Left Shoe
12. Tumbleweed
Image accompanies this press release
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