Imogen is a band I learned of after listening to my "Last Kiss" soundtrack. Ashley Maher had Imogen on her myspace page as a friend. Apparently they knew eachother when living in London. Anyways, that is besides the point. I added "Hide and Seek" to my mypage, just because Ashley Maher and Imogen are friends, and I would like to honor that. Also Imogen uses "crop circle" in this particular song, and I think that anyone who will sing about crop circles is a friend of mine.
So, last night I went to a show in Alta Dena at this cute little tiny place, with a little tiny stage that had a mural of hay bails and looked like a john steinbeck set.
It kind of felt a little toon townish too I have to admit. But sitting there were three of the most unique female voices. One Adjoa Skinner (a girl from buffalo who went to Bible school in Africa who did an angelic version of a Sarah McLaughlin cover) and lived in Ghana, Ashley Maher (a fiery redhead ENFP in tribal looking garb who is married to a man who she says is purple black), who prides herself on being able to ji-rate (sp?) her hips, and Lisa Lynne a former bass player in a heavy metal band who now wears flowing silk and plays the harp and whose following avgs. 55 yrs.old. Lisa also started a huge program at City of Hope where Cancer patients can learn to play the Harp. So all of them had purpose and meaning towards which they direc their music and out of which their music flows.
Anyways, the venue was so tiny, and the girls flowed so nicely together. Ashley's humor was spot on and the Beatles covers were great. Ashley did a lot of her own music and it was beautiful to see how crazy her lyrics were. She did this one song called "Frank and Loretta." It was about two coffee table books, one about the Gee's Bend quilters, and the other about Frank Sinatra that she found in a house she was house-sitting at. The song is about how she learned the concept of doing things "my way" from Loretta and Frank. It was crazy because Loretta is one of the quilters in Alabama whose work I saw in MOMA in 2004. Her work stuck out to me more than the other quilters because she created her own patterns. I too quilt, and am fascinated by the whole art of quilting. I have been to many shows and done my research, so very few quilters are pattern-free. I wish I could quilt with Loretta...but then again maybe it wouldn't be so much fun, since half the fun is knowing the rules just to break them. If we hung together, there would be no rules...that's no fun to break rules that don't exist.
Anyways, after the concert, a friend of mine is friends with Adjoa and was trying to hook us up for a roomate situation in L.A. So she invited us over to Lisa's house in Alta Dena..which by the way was the most whimisical candle-lit living room full of harps I had ever seen. We ate hummus, sipped on wine, and ate split pea soup as we had a sing-along. It was pretty great. Then I had a conversation with Ashley Maher about what it is like to be an ENFP. What a day, then to Pasadena this morning to work with a clt. Now I am taking a nap, so I can go rollerblading round the lake. Maybe I will bbq after that.
Peace!
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