“Dreamy and soulful shuffles that have all the
night-kissed grace of Julee Cruise and the poetic finesse of The Jazz Butcher.”
— Stereo
Embers
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Dani Meza of the crushedvelvets as photographed by Cristopher Cichocki
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the crushedvelvets | “Intertwined” (Live In Studio)
Track Listing:
02. A Hero’s Sin (Live In Studio)
03. Mambo Sun (T-Rex Cover) (Live In Studio)
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Throughout 2022, Dani
Meza released a series of three-song EPs under the dark and sexy name the crushedvelvets.
Described by Stereo
Embers as “dreamy and soulful shuffles that have all the night-kissed grace
of Julee Cruise and the poetic
finesse of The Jazz Butcher,” Ghettoblaster proclaimed that “the vibe
is reaching levels of ultimate leisure.”
It was as if Meza’s
physical need, following his recovery from aneurysm and two strokes, to
approach music from a more relaxed perspective had allowed him to relax his
listeners as well.
“These songs are all about the groove,” Meza said at the time, citing Al Green, Marvin Gaye, and Prince
as primary influences.
Meza has now wrapped up a full-length debut album with
veteran producer Chris Schlarb (Mike Watt, Nels Cline, Sufjan Stevens)
at the helm. While working in Schlarb’s
Big Ego Studios, Meza decided to cap his 2022 series of
EPs as the crushedvelvets with one
more.
“Live In
Studio” will be released on Dec. 15, 2023 and is a unique companion
to Meza’s previous releases in that
it was recorded live on the Big Ego
studio floor accompanied by a professional multi-camera video shoot.
“We perform two of the song taken from two of the
earlier EPs that people liked the most,” Meza
says of “Intertwined” and “A Hero’s Sin.” The band also lends its
signature sound to a cover of the T. Rex
classic “Mambo Sun.”
“‘Mambo Sun’
was just for our pleasure, and to show the diversity of influences on the music
I write,” Meza explains. “This song
kept coming up in conversation when I would share some of the new music we were
recording for the album. I couldn’t ignore the sign when more than a handful of
people took it up.”
The musicians joining Meza for this live session comprise the same band that accompanies
him on the album he tracked the week after the “Live In Studio” shoot and session went down.
These include Ben
Lumsdaine on Drums (Durand Jones),
Danny Frankel on Percussion (Lou Reed, Fiona Apple, She and Him),
Heather Sommerhauser on Synth (Junatime), and Max Diaz on Bass (scarypoolparty,
W I R E S, Broken Baby.)
“This live EP is the closing of a book in order to
move on to the next one,” Meza
states.
“Live In
Studio,” arriving Dec. 15 with visually stunning
performance videos to accompany each of its three tracks, is the fourth and
final EP in the crushedvelvets
series by Dani Meza.
The debut album by the crushedvelvets is scheduled for release in 2024.
Dani Meza of the
crushedvelvets is available for interviews. Contact Josh
Bloom at Fanatic for
more information.
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