Hailing from Brooklyn, Shilpa Ray blends a DIY punk and experimental sounds with deep, caustic and socially engaged lyrics, a dark rock soul that fuses with an Indian Harmonium and her powerful and biting voice. Her music has been compared to the likes of Blondie, The Cramps, Patty Smith bringing on stage an enthralling live show. She was personally picked by Nick Cave as support for his European tour dates tour and recorded also with him. 3 years after the last tour, to present the new music she's working on, that will be release in 2025 on Northern Spy.
Supported by singer-songwriter from Hamburg: Gosia Jasinski - blues & soul with slavic folk fusion.
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Shilpa Ray
Shilpa Ray is a wailing, fire-breathing Cyclops. She tornadoes everything in her path: small towns, big cities, and children’s dreams. One of her fans commented on a YouTube video, “If there’s a heaven, I want God to hire Shilpa Ray to sing the list of my sins.” Within a few hours, she had a day job working for Saint Peter. Ray has ripped off all the greats—The Gun Club, Tom Waits, The Doors— and recently pulled off a triple rip: ripping off Nina Simone ripping off Screamin’ Jay Hawkins ripping off the Devil.
Shilpa Ray released her album Teenage and Torture in 2011 on Knitting Factory Records and found her biggest fan in Nick Cave who started telling music journalists she was his favorite current band. Cave brought her on tour as support for a few Grinderman dates, recorded the Wiel/Brecht song “Pirate Jenny” with her for Hal Wilner’s Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys II, and then hired her to sing backup on his Spring 2013 Bad Seeds tour as well as main support for their Fall 2013 UK and Europe tour to promote her new 4-song EP It’s All Self Fellatio on his record label Bad Seed LTD. She has also served as main support for Man Man and Acid Mother’s Temple as well as the opening act for Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, and A Place to Bury Strangers.
Shilpa Ray, toured Europe and North America with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as a backup singer and their supporting act. She recorded a version of "Pirate Jenny" featuring Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for "Son of Rogue Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys released February 2013 by Anti/Epitaph.
"A few years ago I stumbled upon a Nan Goldin exhibit featuring her photos from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and it shook me to my core. It made me reflect on my own experiences with sexual assault and abuse as well as the media explosion that has resulted from the #metoo movement. Portrait Of A Lady is not necessarily a political record as it is a personal one, showing the good, the bad and the ugly, as well as the power one can ultimately hold being a survivor."Musically, it draws from 80's surrealism and French New Wave - taking synths, beats, guitar and vocal influences from early Ministry, Billy Idol, Pat Benetar, Francoise Hardy and LA hair metal.
“overflowing with modern imagery and an indictment of our heteronormative society's treatment of those deemed to be "different" than the standard. " –Billboard
“captures New York nightlife in all its sordid, sweaty chaos and supplies caustic commentary on life in the unfeeling city.” –NPR Music
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Gosia Jasinska
In a chaotic world where everything seems to be falling apart, the passionate singer-songwriter Gosia works hard to get through the media noise to her audience. Tender, quiet, full of feelings and then again exploding like a force of nature with raw and dirty tones. Gosia Jasinska takes her audience on an emotional journey that guarantees goosebumps, because the musician from Szczecin understands the blues as a natural part of her own history and thus strives to win the hearts of her audience from the first to the last note. Her lyrics are lyrically and metaphorically ambiguous and lead the listeners to interpret the song individually. „Blossoms of Truth" is a rebellion against war and everything destructive or hurtful in our lives. While rebelling against stereotypes and pigeonholes, Gosia is the one who breaks the norm and tries to find other people to create a music-driven, rebellious community.
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