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

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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