Carol Lipnik and Spookarama / Villa Delirium

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“The queen of Coney Island phantasmagoria”
-Lucid Culture

“A Coney Island Of The Ear”
-The New York Times

“Lipnik's moody voice conveys the feeling of being stuck at midnight in the middle of the winter in Coney Island, the neighborhood of her youth”
-The New Yorker

Coney Island Siren Carol Lipnik's haunting 4-octave voice and her uniquely theatrical, poetic, genre-defying songs (many from the point of view of lovelorn beasts and freaks) are phantasmagorical, carnivalesque, gleefully macabre, and irresistibly compelling with shades of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Lenya/Brecht/Weill, and the Creature From The Black Lagoon. Her band Spookarama (named after Coney's famed ramshackle spook-house ) is Dred Scott on piano and keyboards, Tim Luntzel on upright bass, Dan Rieser on drums and percussion, and Rob Sudduth on saxophones. Carol has recorded five CDs on Mermaid Alley Music that are available on iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby.

"Very Brechtian!"
-John Densmore - The Doors

Villa Delirium is a five piece ensemble whose uniquely ethereal sound creates a new possibility for acoustic Gothic music. VD's starkly original compositions (written by John Kruth and Tine Kindermann, both together and individually) reveal traces of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, the Incredible String Band and traditional murder ballads of the American South, Germany and Ireland.

Tine Kindermann: Voice, saw and violin. A German chanteuse/visual artist, Tine's recent credits include performing in Germany with Iggy Pop and Marc Ribot.

John Kruth: Voice, guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica and flutes. Kruth has 9 solo albums, co-leads the world music ensemble TriBeCaStan and has worked with Allen Ginsberg and Violent Femmes.

Kenny Margolis: Accordion and keyboards A member of Cracker and TriBeCaStan, Kenny played in the late great Willy Deville's band.

Doug Wieselman: Bass clarinet and clarinet. Doug has worked with Antony and the Johnsons, Lou Reed, Tricky, Laurie Anderson, Syd Straw, Steven Bernstein and Kamikaze Ground Crew.

Steve Bear: Pots, pans, boxes and assorted batterie. Steve played drums in the legendary Wisconsin band Swamp Thing.