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About this project

Dear Friends,

I've been working on my new album, "SONIC NEW YORK -15 Punk Rockers Pounding a Piano Into Junk" The album is turning out to be quite mad and quite beautiful. 18 tracks.

It's all the experimental Sxip sounds you love driven by object melodies, trip hop human beat box, prepared tuba and drumNbassNbells and also some very very pretty songs with guitars and virtual oil drums. Featured tracks are "I Live in New York City", "Asleep on the Subway" and "Ghosts In The Gowanus Canal"

It features allot breath driven beats and sounds -mutant harmonicas, bass siren whistle, triple extended tin whistle, tuba, human beat boxer Adam Matta, the incredible vocals of Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and the haunting vocals of Aimee Curl.

Also the beautiful mechanics of The Disc Bell Music Box, Obnoxiophone, Prepared Guitar and tuned ratchet. Rachelle Garniez makes an appearence and Sammy from Project Jenny Project Jan produces a track inspired by Deelite and Blondie, a dance hit called "Dreamland" (Summertime in Brooklyn)

I need to raise $5000 to finish the album, recording, art work, mastering. Then I shop it around to labels or release it myself. Think of this as a gift, with a gift in return, because we all know that CD's are archaic media, like 78s. But I collect 78s, so....

My favorite young designer Caleb Beyers, is doing the design, which includes photos by James Shirey (my father) and Sibel De-Mayo.The art will be beautiful and you will want to hold it.

Limited offers available exclusively to those who pledge.

Cheers,
Sxip Shirey
http://www.youtube.com/sxipshirey
sxipshirey@gmail.com


Project location: New York, NY

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pre-order CD Sonic New York and I sign it then draw a little picture on it. (a very nice picture, a dirty picture, I don't know yet) and I send you an mp3 of "Rain on the Roses" recorded live in Vienna!

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pre-order signed Sonic NY CD plus you get my collaboration with Jason Webley "Days with You" (7inch vinyl, book of poetry and CD) (until I run out, I have about a total of 50), and I send you an mp3 of "Rain on the Roses" live from Vienna!

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You will be a guest of honor at one of my shows and receive not only the CDs in a grand gesture but I will make you a special hat. (a very very special hat).

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I'll compose a piece of music for you and record it. (A love song? An entrance theme? A theme song? hell, everyone should have a theme song!)

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You are a financial producer on the album and will be credited as such. I'll give you all the CDs, I'll do a show for you (plus travel)...Plus I'll bake you a pie. I don't know if I've ever baked a pie but I'll make you a pie.

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One of a kind mechanical disc music box, created with the incredible artist Gabriel Shaffer. Composition on disc will be one of a kind and never recreated. Shaffer will re-imagine antique music boxes into new art object. When these sell in galleries they will go for 8k-10k. I am VERY excited about creating these. See http://www.gabrielshaffer.com/gallery.html

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Now come on, tell me what you want me to do! (No, I wont do that) .....well maybe, who's asking?

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Sxip Shirey

Straightpin New York, NY

Sxip Shirey-Composer/Performer

"...haunting..." The New York Times
"..hypnotizing.." Billboard.com
"...beguiling.." Time Out NY
"...mesmirizing.." The New Yorker
"...unexpected.." The Huffington Post

Ecstatic melody, unimaginable sounds and deep sexy beats played Industrial Flutes, Bullhorn Harmonicas, Regurgitated Music Box, Triple Extended Pennywhistls, Miniature Hand Bell Choir, Obnoxiophone, Glass Bowls With Red Marbles and a clutch of curious objects.

Featured solo peformances at Boston's First Night, support act for Dresden Dolls US tour and at The Round House in London, England. Featured at TED in Monteray California, Ashley Capp's (founder of Bonaroo) Big Ears Festival, Edinburgh Frnge Fest, Adelaide Fringe Festival in Australia, Floyd Fest, Joe's Pub, The Knitting Factory and CBGB's in New York Ctiy.

"My first night in New York City I wandered over to Tompkin's Square Park, where 15 punk rockers, armed with sledgehammers, sticks and whatever they could find where pounding a piano into dust. It was John Cage made dangerous and delicious and ridiculous." -Sxip Shirey

Sxip Shirey has played exploding circus organ for the pyro-technic clowns of the Daredevil Opera Company at the Sydney Opera House and the Kennedy Center, industrial flutes for acrobats on mechanical jumping boots at The New Victory Theater on Broadway, tamponophone with The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus at Bonaroo, hillbilly music for gypsies in Transylvania and gypsy music for hillbillies in West Virginia with The Luminescent Orchestrii. When in NYC, Shirey performs at the last of New York's true underground parties and at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater. He is currently working on music for a short film directed by Neil Gaiman (Sandman, American Gods).

Composition Highlights of 2007 and 2008 include work with Cheorographer Heid Latsky and dissabled dancers on "GIMP "which had a Boston Premier at The Institute of Contemporary Art. Composition for the feature film Hotel Gramarcy Park by director Douglas Keeve (Unzipped). Collaboration with composer Rachelle Garniez to create and perform the work "Shadowland" for MOMA's Surrealistic Tribute to Salvidor Dali. Composition and music direction for "Marsupial Girl at The Minneapolis Children's Theater by playwright Lisa D'Amour. Compostion for 5 George Meilies silent films including "A Trip to the Moon" for The Museum of The Moving Image in Queens with presentation by International Book Award writer Brian Selznick (The Invention of Hugo Cabaret).

Also, hosted and Currated the multi-part Charm Sessions featuring live international music from NYC for BBC 2 Radio Scotland. Featured on the next Natalie Merchant album. Shirey has toured Ireland and Wales as a duo, "Sxip and Rhi" with Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. Featured on a track with New Orleans legend Doctor John on the next album By french recording artist Feloche.

"New Yorkers are perpetually trying to explain the musical gazingstock that is Sxip. Their eyes grow big as saucers and they wave their hands around, emitting odd tones of pleasure and emphatic non sequiturs.... before sagging from the effort and saying simply, "I guess you'll just have to go see him....he conjures a world of infernal calliopes and cotton candy machetes wielded by Gypsy crones with angel feet." -SF Weekly