Presenting: How do Monarch Butterflies tell forgotten stories?

Presenting: How do Monarch Butterflies tell forgotten stories?

How do Monarch Butterflies tell forgotten stories?

Once upon a time a New Zealander, named oddly enough Carrie Beehan, left the shore of her island home filled with the songs of drunken sailors and headed to the home of non-funky but precise musicians-Berlin, Germany.

TIP: Say Carrie Beehan very fast

There she recorded Folk Songs with a plethora of gifted folks with swift, nimble and natural fingering on their instruments, nothing funky mind-you.  She stuck to Urban Folk, because her ancestral roots were mostly Irish, and that was the natural inherent rhythm her body-clock wanted to play back then.

She got turned upside down by the arrival of electronic dance club music first contained by the Berliners in the basement vaults of large concrete former-industrial buildings. Taking her lyrics, and setting them not-so sparingly to this happy Love Parade, in a thriving, throbbing, techno-industry, she got a record deal.

But when she landed in New York the big boys turned up. They taught her how to claim the stage, entertain and bring it Big Apple style! She shared the fun, her electronic folk songs imbibing these get-up-all-upside-down-inside-your-head late night shots of soul, funk and jazz.  She created ragga-scatter weirdly-wonderful music. And even got her Berlin cabaret dance shoes on again for a minute.

But something was eating away at her as she planned her next re-invention of the id, lost dreams and haunting memories; sometimes it is worth going back to where you started and reflecting.  And she did. 

She discovered a splendid Monarch butterfly in a vault, wrapped in the magnetic tape of an old cassette and released to fly free twenty years later by a magic-man of film, sound and couture-Clinton Curtis-Querci. There was a story to tell, a fair-weather and high-seas stormy story still untold. We all love stories.

Folk Tales of The Monarch - is an EP of stories, songs, crafted in innocence, polished in experience and sensually varnished in the gold light of reflection of another time and place, Berlin 1991.

               OUT NOW!  FOLK TALES OF THE MONARCH  5 SONGS

TAKE ME TO EP

All paint images are details from Carrie Beehan's latest fused media painting in progress, 2012

EP Folk Tales of The Monarch, Photo & Design - Clinton Curtis-Querci 2012 © Trystette & THL

Folk Tale Tea Leaf Fortunes

Oh YES! You too can own a "Folk Tales Tea Leaf Fortune Telling Kit" with tea leaves for two, customized instructions for fortune reading and a magnifying glass (the type is quite small).. You'll see the future and get a caffeine buzz!

WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE

OUR NEW STORE FOR TEA, TOTES, TUNES = TASTEFUL!

SADO Film #2 from Folk Tales of The Monarch

http://youtu.be/LvelwdLRlek

Official Selection - Art Video Film Festival, Cannes, France, May 2012

 TrystetteMusic.com

    Proudly announces...

 

 Folk Tales of The Monarch  (Tina B - Group)

A short film featuring the performance & music of Carrie Beehan

Directed by Clinton Curtis-Querci 

Visuals, Staging & Sound Design by Clinton Curtis-Querci 

Producers: Carrie Beehan, Clinton Curtis-Querci 

Folk Tales of the Monarch, a "folk opera" of sorts, speaks of the classic human struggle within all of us. Loosely conceptualized within the Victorian era, Carrie Beehan portrays 7 characters of both genders, many of which are interchangeable and could be seen as either internal voices within her psyche, life-like depictions of family, lovers, misogynists, society in general, or traits of these

combined. 

 Running time: 18 minutes

Carrie Beehan: Singer/Songwriter/Performance-Artist/Painter, is an established international performer and artist residing in New York City. With a style that combines songs, sound-scapes, film and paint media with performance and video, she exhibits and performs regularly in New York galleries and venues. Her music pseudonym is Trystette. Double-edged expressionist film-maker, Clinton Curtis-Querci, visually created and directed Carrie's newest performance piece, combining her music and characterizations in the film, Folk Tales of the Monarch

This is official selection is made possible with the support of :
(Czech Republic) TINA B Festival: Jana Tomášková & Monika Burian, 
 (New York, USA) Fusion Arts: Shalom Neuman, Deborah Fries.

 Bonnie Sue Stein and Vit Horjes of GOH Productions  aka Seven Loaves, Inc. 
Thanks to Lambert Fine Arts, Marco Querci and Change of Season Boutique 9th Street NYC.

Fountain Art Fair at The Armory - Carrie Beehan/Shalom Neuman & FusionArt Steam

Fountain Art fair at The Armory March 10, 2012, New York: Carrie Beehan (Trystette) with Shalom Neuman and FusionArts Steam - Lambert Fine Arts.

An exhibition known for its vibrant energy, focus on daring emerging art, and disregard for convention, Fountain Art Fair took over the historic 69th Armory on March 9-11, representing today’s most cutting-edge independent galleries and artists.