Artist Description
Not so long ago, a reviewer said that if Picasso had a band, it would sound like Lucibel Crater. Well, "Cubistic Beats" are what pour out of this Brooklyn-based trio; layers of sound by laptop ringleader Sarth Calhoun and drummer Paul Chuffo connect under the vocals and cello of Leah Coloff.Sometimes jaunty, sometimes apocalyptic, their live set demonstrates a refusal to fall into any usual pattern. They don't so much jump around between styles as hazily morph and deconstruct them: a kind of a Portishead + Massive attack thing, with some really convincing injections of a raw soul Janis-Joplin-y kind of sound.
In 2008, Lucibel released their debut record, “The Family Album” to critical success. Vogue Italia described The Family Album, as "Perpetually oscillating between analogue and digital, Bjork crossed with The White Stripes, ...a schizoid, unpredictable sound made of both live improvisations and thoughtful studio recordings." Lou Reed helped out on The Family Album by playing guitar on the ballad, “threadbare funeral”.
Sarth Calhoun has been expanding his electronic, improvisational skills with Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger playing in Metal Machine Trio, a deep noise experience based on Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. He claims to be the world’s premiere continuum fingerboard player and to have invented a new kind of synthesis.
Leah Coloff, cellist and vocalist, was last seen at Galapagos Art Space as part of an evening, 21C Liederabend; voted one of the best classical performances of 2009 by Time Out New York.
Paul Chuffo (formerly of the punk rock free jazz band, Gutbucket) is recently been making the world a better place producing an consciousness raising PBS special, “Go Greener”.
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