Carrie Beehan & Clinton Curtis-Querci
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
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.
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
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
Saturday, August 11, 2012
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!
Thursday, August 2, 2012
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