But I will be playing my songs. If you are a member of this board and you are in this city, I would love to meet you!Steve
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Steve Espinola in Berlin Saturday 8 pm at art.gerecht
Price: 3 euros
Date: Saturday, 15 August 2009
Time: 19:30 - 22:00 (7:30 pm to 10:00 pm)
Location: art.gerecht
Street: Luckauer Str. 10, Stadtplan 10969
Town/City: Berlin, Germany
http://www.art-gerecht-berlin.de
Steve Espinola will play his songs with piano, 19-string electric tennis racket, and acapella.
Actual performance starting time is 8:00 pm. Night ends promptly at 10 pm. (Neighbors, ya know.)
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Sound: It's a Fats-Waller-shares-a-hamburger-with-Brian-Wilson- while-Marianne-Moore-buys-insurance-from-Wallace-Stevens- and-Isabella-Rossellini-eyes-Stanley-Tucci-in-Big-Night sort of hybrid.
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Steve Espinola is a mostly-piano-playing singer-songwriter, though he deviates to 19-string electric tennis racket and melodic shortwave radio on occasion. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and tends to perform in New York City. He is a home recording enthusiast, instrument maker, budding record cutter, amateur Victrola repairman, and cat worshiper. He's been writing, performing and self-releasing his music since the early 1980's, but is constantly humbled by inspired beginners.
It is rumored that Steve is the subject of the Moldy Peaches’ song “Jorge Regula.” He played keyboards on the original album recording of the song, and performed as an occasional non-touring auxiliary/cameo member of the band, on keyboards and homemade 19-string Electric Tennis Racket.
A bit of a band slut, he also plays/has played/recorded with Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Gutterball), Biff Rose, Jeffrey Lewis, Sport Murphy, Amy X. Neuburg, Kimya Dawson, The Sprinkle Genies, The Teenage Prayers, cub/Lisa Marr, Bionic Finger, The Dan Emery Mystery Band, (Ben Hume’s) The Listeners, Peter Dizozza, Jessica Kane, The Merkins (of Madison, Wisconsin), David Wechsler (of Pinataland), Tom Warnick and the World’s Fair, Lach, Dan Fishback, Dina Dean, Do (Dwight) Peterson/Science Groove, Debby Schwartz, Wadlow, Dallam Dougou/Raul Rothblatt, The Actual Feelings, Hard Love, and the Cello Wrapped Heads.
As a sideline, he is recording and archiving current musicians live onto 78 rpm acetates and plastic picnic plates, so that music lovers in future post-electric generations may play them on hand-cranked Victrolas.
"If we were tripping on peyote and walking along in the desert, and we came upon a mysterious hallucinogenic lounge right there in our path, and it was dark and glowing and strangely comfortable inside, the piano player at that lounge would be Steve Espinola." --Tony Rubin, Recording Angels