Zelda and the Unibrows – Museum TV Station
Rare live recordings with rock band, orchestra and chorus!
Lado Darakhvelidze is the mind behind Museum TV Station, and event he held for many years starting in 2010. MTVS features artists performing original works live over Skype to an ever-changing gallery location. Lado invited Zelda and the Unibrows to participate over Skype in 2011 and 2012 and in-person at The Kitchen in New York for 2013. Zelda and the Unibrows has always been a studio project, so playing live is not easy for us to do. A few of our performances were either singing over backing tracks or doing things live that would not translate well to a recording, but for the recordings presented here we assembled bands just to perform these pieces.
The first two tracks were rehearsed with Steve Kowalski and Dan Schnoblen of The Reelers, but there was an 11th-hour emergency that prevented Steve from performing live, and so Dustin Jones swooped in and saved the day at the last moment, learning his parts just in time to perform.
The year after the "Reelers" performance, Lado invited us to do the same again. Excited, I couldn't help but mention it to some musicians I had seen at Thistle Coffeehouse's open mic night, and one of them came back the next day and asked if I wanted to... more
Orchestral Recording Engineer - Scott Koue
Photography - Aislynn Scofield
MTVS drawing - Lado Darakhvelidze
Mixing, Cover collage - Joseph C. Krause
Thanks to John Swain, Nicholi Brossia, James Hentges, Giorgi Tabatadze, Jeff Jablonski, Charles Kelly, Mandy Moran, Sean Barry, Annie Derbabian, Thistle Coffeehouse, and the Wayne State University Music Department, who all helped make the Skypecast and video happen.
This release is dedicated in the memory of Dan Schnoblen.
