31.10. Salon @ ZMF: Meanwhiles (Brooklyn, New York), Listen Lisse (East London)

Unlike most of their Brooklyn, NY contemporaries, Meanwhiles' music does not echo the kinetic, traffic clamor of the city itself, but rather the exhausted beauty of the people continually caught up in its whirlwind. The characters in their songs (who may or may not closely resemble brothers Josh and Todd Allen) live on the fringes of the metropolis. They watch from the outskirts with tired eyes, knowing all the while they'll eventually be lured back into its epicenter and be swept up and spun around by it once again. These are big songs about the small moments that we keep coming back to... powerful and affecting, cosmic and American. Bare knuckled emotion blended with simple yet artful arrangements: this is music that you can really grow close to. After having attracted the attention of Sparklehorse/Mary Timony/Comas producer Alan Weatherhead at a live performance in 2003, the band jumped at the chance to mix their first album with him in March of 2004 at Virginia's Sound of Music Studios. Weatherheads touch at the control board enhanced the natural sonic beauty of Meanwhiles music, and brought the grace and power of a big studio sound to their home recordings. Martha Wainwright adds the rich tones of her voice to the mix with some high and lonesome harmony vocals. You can hear the results in their first full-length record "The Nights Rewind". The band is currently putting finishing touches a brand new album that will be released early next year.

Listen Lisse is Lisa McKendrick. She writes the lyrics, she sings, plays guitar, synth, tambourine, violin and drum machine. Listen - and go to her myspace site.

Expect an evening of nice quiet, mellow, crazy tunes...

starts: 22h
entry fee: free
at: ZMF
brunnenstrasse 10
u - rosenthaler platz
backyard, follow the lights


Meanwhiles home
Listen Lisse myspace