MP3 Rebecca Moore - Admiral Charcoal´s Song

Dark, Weill-esque songs from a surrealistic musical theater piece she did on the Lower East Side, this is Rebecca Moore's first CD and very different from her later work.

11 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Goth, ROCK: Emo



Details:
Rebecca is a former experimental-theater-child-performance-artist-turned-singer-songwriter, who was born and raised in New York City. She grew up at the exit to the Lincoln Tunnel; a neglected street unclaimed by both Hellâs Kitchen and Chelsea, where concert-goers to Madison Square Garden would go to score before the shows. She went to school in a prison-like structure imbedded in the projects.

But her childhood and musical life was mostly defined and salvaged by an upbringing filled with constant, intense exposure to New York's Downtown Avant-Garde art, music and dance scenes of the 1970's and 80âs via her Family. Many nights a week, she was taken by her parents to counter-cultural art events which took place in abandoned buildings, raw loft spaces or empty corners of the city. This rare, unusual and fairly isolated upbringing has highly informed her music and sensibilities.

She performs with a band around the city and sometimes does small gigs out of town. She has always worked day jobs (currently in a downtown Factory) and works on music as much as she can at night. She also works with many people and groups on the Lower East Side of NY, doing community activism and organizing focused around issues of gentrification, loss of affordable housing and the intense uprooting of the last poor communities (including artist-communities) from New York City.

More information (bio, gigs and projects) can be found on the website: www.bluviolin.com or at http://www.myspace.com/rebeccamoore

Her two CDâs (Home Wreckordings and Admiral Charcoalâs Song) were first released by the former (very independent) label Knitting Factory Records; now they are self-releases.