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Big
Note Featured Artist
Lach
(if a band).- The Secrets can sometimes be scene backing Lach.
They are Billy Ficca on drums and Roy Edroso on bass.
Website address and e-mail (other contact
details if necessary). www.antifolk.net
folkbro@aol.com
Brief Biography:
Lach's current release is Kids Fly Free
(Fortified Records)fourteen songs produced by Richard Barone (of
The Bongos) with Billy Ficca (of Televison) on drums and Roy Edroso
(of Reverb Motherfuckers on bass) . As a performer, songwriter,
indie label honcho, and club owner Lach has spearheaded the revolution
in American songwriting known as Antifolk. Lach has been cited
by such acts as Beck, John S. Hall (King Missile), Brenda Kahn,
Hamell On Trial, The Moldy Peaches, Jeff Lewis, Major Matt Mason
USA and countless others as a major source of inspiration.
Forthcoming news/plans:
News: Lach to play A2A convention in Amsterdam
at Milkweg on Oct.20 then head to London for a week's worth of
shows. Plans: Tour the new album Kids Fly Free. Parley a ridiculous
amount of hype into a multimillion dollar contract.
Recordings made/available:
Currently available: Blang! and Kids Fly
Free. Both CDs are on Lach's indie label Fortified. Distributed
in USA by Big Daddy. Available online at amazon.com, borders,com
or just pick it up at a Lach show. Also on Fortified: Major Matt
Mason USA and Rick Shapiro.
Influences:
Actually, Lach is the influence.
Daydreams:
Make love to the invisible girl
Secret pleasure.
Well, it wouldn't be a secret then, would it?
Favourite memory:
To kiss the face of God you must promise
to forget the experience
Longest hour:
Linear time is an illusion. We live in
a simultaneous now.
Shortest hour:
Shortest hour. See above (you already did;-)
Favourite gadget/luxury:
Favourite gadget/luxury. Left brain lobe
Itchiest irritation:
Questionaires
Best understanding:
Music
Greatest confusion:
Women
So what is some of that hype you were
talking about?
" Lach is the mastermind of Antifolk, a loose concept involving
acoustic guitars and punk-rock attitude, like a Lower East Side
rendezvous of Bob Dylan and Patti Smith. "- Jon Pareles, The New
York Times
" The Sex Pistols meets Hank Williams.A wholly enjoyable voyage
into a strange and brilliant musical mind."-Billboard Magazine
"Lach is so what the East Village used to be all about. He's a
gruff-and-tough punk turned poet with a heart o'gold singing jangly,
funny, pop- punk in a snotty voice, equal parts Tom Petty, Richard
Hell and that dude from the Dead Milkmen. "-Time Out NY
"Riotously catchy!"-Timeout London
"Lach’s lowbrow humor and his uncanny knack for storytelling owe
as much to The Sex Pistols as they do to Woody Guthrie. For fans
of Beck, Woody Guthrie and The Clash!" – Ron Hart, CMJ Weekly
"The last true punk" - Martin Kihn, New York Magazine
"Alphabet City's stalwart anti-folk hero is building monuments
to lonely rockabilly while simultaneously breaking the molds.
He never fakes being too cool, but just know he is. " - Natasha
Stovall, The Village Voice
"Like black snow, stalled subway cars and random violence, Lach
is a Manhattan institution."- Neil Strauss, NY Times
" He's equal parts Dylan, Sid Vicious and Hank Williams, with
dynamic vocals, audacious time-changes and sharp, stream-of-consciousness
rhyming" - Mike Beggs, The Toronto Eye (NXNE)
"Lach's emotional resonance left the Chicago House audience begging
for more, wrapping up a celebratory set of troubled dreams." -Gavin
Lance, Austin-American Statesman (SXSW)
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For Further Information
Website
www.antifolk.net
E-mail
folkbro@aol.com
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