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experimental folk music with a dash of feminista witch banter and poetic transcendance
Genre:
Country: Country Folk
Release Date:
2006
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© Copyright-Kristen Hart aka. Malcolm Rollick
(783707306506)
Record Label: Malcolm Rollick
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Malcolm Rollick started playing on New York sidewalks at the age of seventeen. She then headed off to college, collected degrees in Music and in Literature, and graduated to late night subway entertaining with friend and co-writer Gerard Smith (TV on the Radio). Malcolm and Gerard held a summer long residency at the now forgotten 'Stinger' club in Williamsburg in 2000. Their music was performed with and by members of 'Coco Rosie' and 'TV on the Radio'. Most memorably Tundai (TV...) and Malcolm screamed angry jazz down each other's throats until Malcolm got distracted and began reading aloud from Moby Dick. She apologizes to Jason Sitek... yes, i still have your book. Ian Coletti wrote the first four songs for his project "Angriest Pussycat" with Malcolm's voice in mind. Over four years she quit the band twice because no one could hear the lyrics (which are really good) but eventually she laid her four tracks to rest on the EP. She still misses screaming, and rock and roll sometimes, but not enough to go backwards. Ian dubbed her the cult character that kept vanishing from the band to go meditate, but she got kicked out of meditation camp in 2003. She worked for two awkward and potent years with the grassroots misfit band 'Dufus', singing in the choir and dancing like a robot. (this move is called "picking up a piece of paper and exiting stage left..." Lucas Crane, circa. 2001) In 2004 she played the lead in Gina Young's most recent rock musical "God in a Girl". She has shared the stage with the likes of Diane Cluck, Mary Timony, Kyp Malone, Pamela Means, Kimya Dawson and Chris Pureka. These days she can be found singing backup vocals and little tiny arias in Julia Frodhal's 'Edison Woods' (www.edisonwoods.net), and managing a small, community-based, queer d.i.y venue of her own invention (www.myspace.com/crowspace). She currently out on national tour promoing her second solo record "Scaffolds", and looks forward to her quiet return to her home and the NYC subways. Her music was a gift from her father and her god-father alike, and it carries her close.
booking: mlklm_rollick@yahoo.com / 347 244 0579
listen: www.myspace.com/malcolmrollick
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Ginger Ale for the Soul
author: Cynthia Markey
I found out about Malcolm Rollick when a friend of mine playing locally was unfortunately double booked with her. I liked what I heard so much that I bought a copy of Scaffolds and took it home, with very little expectation set. Scaffolds is Experimental Folk filled with songs that you wish you had written but would never be so bold as to cover. The nice thing about Scaffolds as an album is that it truly operates as one piece, as opposed to a bunch of unrelated songs strung together in random order. The songs flow into each other and even though I've had it in my walkman quite a few times, I've rarely, if ever, felt the desire to skip to the next track.
Lyrically, Scaffolds is inventive and original. In "Crackwhore", she is "freshly in love with a schizophrenic crayon weilding witch." The song "Mary", which early on tricks the listener into thinking it's about Mary Magdalene is in fact about a great deal more which is revealed as it steps proudly on it's soapbox to declare that "love is poison for the ones who hide behind the church."
The opening track "Glue" sets the tone for the whole album with the seeming random double tracking and sound quality changes, each change made to the sound has a slightly different effect, using not just word but sound to guide the listener emotionally. There is an intimacy on this album that absolutely can't be ignored. When the album ends, it's as though you've paid the tab and have bid your friends farewell at the end of the night.
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crinkly elf leaves and moon kisses and water slaps
author: Gala Magick
MLKLM's music is always inspirational and soothing and full of raging stars. This record is song after song of raw energy, raw love, raw goodness.
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