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Sat 11th

Knom Music & Hungry Hill present
LISA GERMANO
+ Amandine
+ Memory Band

Doors 7.30
£11.00 via WeGotTickets

Lisa Germano began releasing her music in the '90s, first on Capitol Records, and then several more albums through 4AD. Perhaps most notable among them were the fantastic 'Geek', 'The Girl' and 'Excerpts From A Love Circus'. These records created a very special "antique", lost carnival atmosphere - extremely personal, simultaneously self-effacing and confrontational missives of emotional damage and impossible love. She received a fair amount of acclaim at the time in publications ranging from independent-oriented fanzines and magazines and on to Spin, Rolling Stone etc.
In 2003 Lisa released the absolutely beautiful and wrenching audio journey 'Lullaby For Liquid Pig', featuring woozy paeans to alcohol, fantasy landscapes and out-of-focus dreams. Her side projects/collaborations include the album OP8 (with Giant Sand and Calexico) in which she is the featured singer, and diverse hired side-person stints with David Bowie, Neil Finn, John Mellencamp, Simple Minds, Iggy Pop, Sheryl Crow and others. As an artist/performer she's right up there with the cadre of strong, emotionally raw challenging and original women singers such as PJ Harvey, Maryanne Faithful, Cat Power and Bjork, and it’s about time Lisa had her due.
Typically, her (self) production and arrangements are inventive and completely unique, the words cut right to the core and her voice carries you gently off into a world where the distinctions between beauty, loss, love and pain tend to blur. The songs are immediately gratifying and sensual, but are also ultimately complicated and reward repeated listening.