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Love!love!love! by La Scala
La Scala
Artist Biography For La Scala
In The Nefarious Areas Of Chicago At An Hour When Nothing Noble Can Happen La Scala Was Formed. Their Trade Is In Fully Blooded Rock Songs Complete With Guitars Drums Hooks And All Sure. But There Is One Important Difference Here For These Are Songs That Are Heavy On The Haunting Melodramatic Air That Used To Be So Common. Yes Yes You Know Quite Well This Type Of Melodrama And This Type Of Song - Anyone With A Pained Heart Surely Does. It Is The Kind Found In The Sicilian Alleys Frequented Only By The Forlorn Street Singer Or In The Smoky Cabarets Of Prewar Paris Or In The Tiny Hillside Villages Of The Eastern Bloc Tucked Away All Those Years Behind That Iron Drapery. It Is This Spirit This Old World Sense Of Melody That La Scala Employs With Such Expert Skill Creating A Sound That Is Equal Parts Rock Eastern European Folk And Saccharine 1960's Continental Pop Music. The Frontman At Work Here Is Balthazar De Ley. A Childhood Split Between Paris France And Champaign USA Taught Him The Art Of Melancholy And The Art Of Song Both Of Which He Honed In His Previous Endeavors With Bands Such As Menthol And Hum. The Driving Rhythms Are Provided By Drummer Joshua Lohr Formerly Of The Dirty Things And Bassist Jacco Kuipers Formerly Of Bird Talk. Piano And Keys Were Added Into The Mix By The Talented Adam Labrada Formerly Of Unicycle Loves You. Rounding Out The Lineup Is Kirk McMahon Responsible For The Tremolo Guitars And The Thick Blanketing Of Reverb. The Band Made Its Live Debut In Early 2007 With A Commanding Performance Chicago's Empty Bottle. This First Live Set And The General Sense Of Elation It Spread Throughout The Club Quickly Earned The Band Invitations To Appear At A Number Of Other Esteemed Chicago Venues Such As Metro The Double Door And The Hideout. Roughly Six Months After This First Performance La Scala Began Work On Its Debut EP The Harlequin Which Was Released In Early 2008 By Highwheel Records. It Was Recorded In One Of Chicago's Dark Corners And Mixed By Renowned Producer Brain Deck Iron & Wine Modest Mouse Etc. . In Summer Of 2010 A Subsequent EP The Last Carousel Was Released. After Various Shows As A Quintet The Band Decided To Pursue Separate Interests At The End Of 2011.
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Biography - La Scala
In The Nefarious Areas Of Chicago At An Hour When Nothing Noble Can Happen La Scala Was Formed. Their Trade Is In Fully Blooded Rock Songs Complete With Guitars Drums Hooks And All Sure. But There Is One Important Difference Here For These Are Songs That Are Heavy On The Haunting Melodramatic Air That Used To Be So Common. Yes Yes You Know Quite Well This Type Of Melodrama And This Type Of Song - Anyone With A Pained Heart Surely Does. It Is The Kind Found In The Sicilian Alleys Frequented Only By The Forlorn Street Singer Or In The Smoky Cabarets Of Prewar Paris Or In The Tiny Hillside Villages Of The Eastern Bloc Tucked Away All Those Years Behind That Iron Drapery. It Is This Spirit This Old World Sense Of Melody That La Scala Employs With Such Expert Skill Creating A Sound That Is Equal Parts Rock Eastern European Folk And Saccharine 1960's Continental Pop Music. The Frontman At Work Here Is Balthazar De Ley. A Childhood Split Between Paris France And Champaign USA Taught Him The Art Of Melancholy And The Art Of Song Both Of Which He Honed In His Previous Endeavors With Bands Such As Menthol And Hum. The Driving Rhythms Are Provided By Drummer Joshua Lohr Formerly Of The Dirty Things And Bassist Jacco Kuipers Formerly Of Bird Talk. Piano And Keys Were Added Into The Mix By The Talented Adam Labrada Formerly Of Unicycle Loves You. Rounding Out The Lineup Is Kirk McMahon Responsible For The Tremolo Guitars And The Thick Blanketing Of Reverb. The Band Made Its Live Debut In Early 2007 With A Commanding Performance Chicago's Empty Bottle. This First Live Set And The General Sense Of Elation It Spread Throughout The Club Quickly Earned The Band Invitations To Appear At A Number Of Other Esteemed Chicago Venues Such As Metro The Double Door And The Hideout. Roughly Six Months After This First Performance La Scala Began Work On Its Debut EP The Harlequin Which Was Released In Early 2008 By Highwheel Records. It Was Recorded In One Of Chicago's Dark Corners And Mixed By Renowned Producer Brain Deck Iron & Wine Modest Mouse Etc. . In Summer Of 2010 A Subsequent EP The Last Carousel Was Released. After Various Shows As A Quintet The Band Decided To Pursue Separate Interests At The End Of 2011.
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