{"id":32638,"date":"2019-10-30T12:15:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32638"},"modified":"2019-10-22T07:59:21","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T11:59:21","slug":"sylvia-black-releases-new-album-featuring-lydia-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=32638","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Black releases new album featuring Lydia Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">Multi-faceted vocalist\/songwriter\/musician\/performer\/producer and restlessly creative femme fatale\u00a0Sylvia Black\u00a0has released\u00a0her new album,\u00a0&#8216;Twilight Animals (Originals and Covers for Tortured Lovers)&#8217;. You can listen to the full album stream via\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/girlieaction.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1d59aca4aeedaab429816159e&amp;id=f999eb8378&amp;e=3a430a552a\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/girlieaction.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1d59aca4aeedaab429816159e&amp;id=c8b4b2457d&amp;e=3a430a552a\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Music<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has also shared the video for <em>Walking With Fire<\/em> featuring Lydia Lunch. Check out the video clip via YouTube below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MhYbHgt6xoQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sylvia Black&#8217;s &#8216;Twilight Animals (Originals and Covers for Tortured Lovers)&#8217;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>sums up many of\u00a0her musical loves in\u00a012 songs.\u00a0&#8216;Twilight Animals&#8217; gleefully style hops from electronic to jazz-noir, sonic jaunts to the East by way of Morocco and India, and always some hometown Texas blues and twang, Sylvia manages to create haunting and authentic music from a wide spectrum of styles most probably due to her tumultuous and gypsy-like upbringing. Never one to sit still, it is no wonder\u00a0Sylvia Black and Lydia Lunch<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>have found a kinship, friendship, and have collaborated not only on\u00a0<strong>&#8216;<\/strong>Twilight<strong> <\/strong>Animals<strong>&#8216;\u00a0<\/strong>but have yet another album, featuring much more of the No-Wave pioneer&#8217;s presence, waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first half of the\u00a0<strong>&#8216;<\/strong>Twilight<strong> <\/strong>Animals<strong>&#8216;\u00a0<\/strong>pulls you into the shadows of a low lit lounge. As the smoke dissipates you find yourself in a mysterious scene from a\u00a0David Lynch\u00a0film where an amalgamation of\u00a0Koko Taylor&#8217;s &#8216;Up In Flames&#8217;\u00a0plays against a Blue Velvet backdrop while a tortured\u00a0Isabella Rossellini\u00a0opens to an audience of Lynch&#8217;s most seductive and dark characters. You are handed an unfamiliar cocktail that begins to bubble and effervesce. And just as you hit peak hallucination with a bit of paranoia, the 2nd half of the album then pulls you out through that back door to the other side relieving you onto a foreign tropical shore where campy\u00a0John Water&#8217;s\u00a0characters swing and play as the sun fades away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On\u00a0&#8216;Twilight Animals&#8217;,\u00a0Sylvia crafts energetic and haunting originals but also bows deeply to some of her favorite artists by covering some of her favorite songs from cult faves,\u00a0Fat<strong> <\/strong>White<strong> <\/strong>Family, The Horrors, and Psychedelic<strong> <\/strong>Furs<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to surprising renditions by 80&#8217;s musical monsters\u00a0Van Halen\u00a0and\u00a0Huey Lewis and the News&#8230;twisting the originals to her will and making them into something very different from where they started &#8211; the only way Sylvia considers doing a cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sylvia Black is vocalist with styles ranging from jazz to country to gospel to opera. A US Patent owner, bassist, video editor, and video director\/motion graphics artist hobbiest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Multi-faceted vocalist\/songwriter\/musician\/performer\/producer and restlessly creative femme fatale\u00a0Sylvia Black<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>is hard to pin down. You may have last\u00a0heard\u00a0Sylvia&#8217;s rendition of the classic,\u00a0<em>I Put A Spell On You<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>for\u00a0Netflix hit series &#8216;Chilling Adventures of Sabrina&#8217;\u00a0on their premiere episode. Or, you may have last\u00a0seen\u00a0her singing and cutting up in the lounge of the\u00a0Roxy Hotel in New York City\u00a0during her much loved Friday night residency. But from the beginning, born bi-racial in Alabama, Sylvia turned her observations and experiences of riding the line between worlds, and feeling at times very outside of both, into a well of emotions from which to draw upon for character work and soon took to the stage. By age 5, acting was her passion. But even eventually landing in the epicenter of film and tv land as a child, Los Angeles, Sylvia found many limitations imposed upon her because of her &#8216;type&#8217; at that time. Her focus stayed mostly in the theater but music was always the vehicle. Sylvia&#8217;s first job took her to Japan at age 17 to sing in a resort hotel for 3 months and music has been with her ever since. A background and passion for punk, jazz, new-wave, and metal during her formidable years led her in many directions. Intensity and quality being the only framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She may be once best known as the voice of New York\u2019s fiery electronic pop-rock trio\u00a0KUDU, along with partners Deantoni Parks ( Mars Volta, John Cale, Flying Lotus, Me-Shell N&#8217;Degeocello)\u00a0and\u00a0Nicci Kasper.\u00a0Lauded by The NY Times\u00a0and many other notable publications,\u00a0KUDU\u00a0were poised for success based on a fiercely current sound Sylvia curated to pay homage to the true New Yorkers she had longed to be around since she was stuck in Jr. High School dreaming in Texas<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>Fresh from her school days in Boston, where Sylvia received her degree, with honors, in Bass Performance, from the hands of\u00a0David Bowie\u00a0and\u00a0Wayne Shorter,\u00a0Sylvia made a bee line for New York City. Sylvia had brief bass playing stints with the likes of\u00a0N&#8217;Dea Davenport (Brand New Heavies), Kamaal The Abtract (Q Tip), and Muzz Skillings (Living Color)\u00a0before she put aside her bass for a considerable time. Sylvia has an impressive knack for writing engaging rhyme schemes and poetic lyrics but find interest in mostly underground, unsung musical heroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Multi-faceted vocalist\/songwriter\/musician\/performer\/producer and restlessly creative femme fatale\u00a0Sylvia Black\u00a0has released\u00a0her new album,\u00a0&#8216;Twilight Animals (Originals and Covers for Tortured Lovers)&#8217;. 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