Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers
Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers
Genres: indie, dark folk, experimental, blues, female vocalists
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About Shilpa Ray & her Happy Hookers
Shilpa Ray and her Happy Hookers play grinding blues, sleazy jazz, and bracing rock with punk immediacy and pop appeal. The result? Something like a vulgar Ella Fitzgerald, channeling Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, and singing her songs before a wall of distortion and thunderous, pounding rhythms. Live shows are already a notorious commodity -- and audiences have been screaming as loud as the band does. They are currently riding a wave of SXSW buzz which has followed their 7 shows there and preparing for a Spring tour and a Pianos Residency in May. Their debut album, 'A Fish Hook An Open Eye' captures the band's raw and unique sound in 8 solid tracks, demonstrating depth, ability, and emotional scope, eclipsing anything from Shilpa's already lauded past. But Shilpa is not looking back: ‘A Fish Hook An Open Eye will be released this spring and Shilpa and her band will viciously tour throughout 2009.
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