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Subject: Elma Mayer Art-Pop performance LA 4/2, NYC 4/18
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 97 08:49:30 -0800
From: "Niels P. Mayer" <mayer@netcom10>
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From Bucharest Via New York's Downtown Music Scene,
Art-Pop Songstress Elma Mayer Performs
In Los Angeles, Wednesday April 2 at 9pm
Luna Park, 665 N Robertson, W Hollywood (310) 652-0611
In New York City, Friday April 18 at 8 pm
CB's 313 Gallery, 313 Bowery (212) 677-0455
also appearing: Brian Woodbury and Brian Dewan
Composer Elma Mayer will perform her art-pop songs,
accompanying herself on piano, harmonium and primitive
electronic keyboards.
Elma's credits include work with Van Dyke Parks and
They Might Be Giants. Her CD has guest appearances by Chris
Wood of Medeski Martin Wood, Jon Feinberg and Brian
Woodbury.
To hear tiny bits of music from her CD on Ponk Records, or
to mail order her CD, visit
http://www.ice.net/~ponk or
email ponk@ice.net.
Reviews
"The uncategorizable songs of this Bucharest-born singer are
as engaging as pop, as complex as German lieder, and touch
on jazz, experimentalism, cabaret and a few other things..."
Kyle Gann, Village Voice
"Elma Mayer's music is powerful, even disturbing."
Keyboard Magazine
"This Bucharest-born Brooklynite has a great new album of
songs and cycles that draw on a century or two's art music
and pop traditions. I'm constantly drawn back to 'Three
Haiku vs. the Pet Gila Monster,' the wry soundtrack for a
monster movie imagined by a Japanese prisoner of a
California internment camp."
Richard Gehr, Village Voice
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