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PINK
MARTINI
Album
« Sympathique »
Single
« Je ne veux pas travailler »
Pink
Martini blends influences
from classical chamber music to Cuban, from French music halls
to foreign films, resulting in a dynamic frenzy of percussion,
brass, strings and lyrics that span the continents. This is
dazzling and graceful music.
Pink
Martini's concerts and appearances are a moving experience,
drawing a loyal and widely diverse crowd. The band has packed
houses up and down the West Coast and in France, and has
played in all sorts of venues, from art museums to airport
hangers to concert halls. Pink Martini takes its music
seriously, but it also embodies a keen sense of fabulousness.
Thomas
M. Lauderdale, the band
leader and an accomplished classical pianist, has been
featured with The Oregon Symphony, The Seattle
Symphony and the Oregon Ballet Theatre. He has
appeared in recital in Boston and New York. Vocalist China
Forbes lives in New York and recently recorded the title
song for UPN's sitcom "Clueless".
Comprised
of 10 musicians, the Oregon-based Pink Martini was a
fortuitous accident, thrown together as the opener for the 3-gal,
3-guitar ensemble The Del Rubio Triplets in the Fall of
1994. Since then, the band has opened for Squirrel Nut
Zippers and Eartha Kitt, among others. Pink
Martini's live performances have included special guest vocal
appearances by Kim Coles, Queen Latifah and Gus
Van Sant. Pink Martini members sat in on "Twist and
Shout" with Elton John and Ringo Starr at
the AmFAR Cinema Against Aids Fundraiser at the 1998 and 1999
Cannes Film Festival,
Pink
Martini represents what is refreshing and new in pop music,
respecting the traditions of classical, jazz and Latin, and
inspiring a new amalgamation that is hypnotic, cinematic and
above all else beautiful.
Selected
press quotes :
« Sizzling! »
- Esquire Magazine
« Intoxicating! »
- San Francisco Examiner
« Serious
in its musical intent and unafraid to experiment at the nexus
of the classical, Latin and jazz traditions. » - The
Oregonian
« If
life is a cabaret, Pink Martini is the band in the existential
orchestra pit. » -
CMJ
New Music Monthly
« Sympathique
is breathtaking » - The
New Yorker
Recent
appearances :
They
are on tour in 2001 Spring and will have concerts in many
European Countries
France
2000 : 2 planned tours in July and October / November in
the most important festivals in France, Switzerland, Belgium,
Germany and Spain.
March
2000 : 2 nominations for the Victory of Music in France
France
1999 : Cannes Film Festival (Raoul RUIZ Party "Le Temps
retrouvé",
AMfar
evening, American Pavillon); Rouen, Nancy Jazz Pulsations,
Albi Jazz Festival, Paris
France
1998 : Cannes Film Festival; Paris,
Paper
Magazine's 15th Anniversary party at the Chateau Marmont in
Los Angeles
The
William Morris Agency's Centennial Anniversary in Los Angeles
(backing soul legend Al Green for three songs)
Recordings
:
Pink
Martini's first album, entitled Sympathique, was
released in November 1997
Pink
Martini recorded the George of the Jungle theme for Warner
Bros. Cartoon Network
Pink
Martini's song Sympathique appears on the Patio Music
compilation Heavy Rotation with artists such as Lenny
Kravitz, Massive Attack, Spiritualized and
Van
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