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JAGGERY with very special guest MARY OCHER
Tuesday April 15
JAGGERY with very special guest MARY OCHER
$10 advance / $12 at the door
7:30 doors / 8:00 show
www.jaggery.org
www.maryocher.com
JAGGERY
"Jaggery audiences go silent and still like people appreciating raw, scary, beautiful wildlife." That observation was made by web magazine, Cambridge Day, in reaction to the Boston-based five-piece, who work the dark edge of a genre-defying musical style (darkwave jazz? ethereal avant-rock? chamber art-pop?) Moving from haunting lullabies to intricately-woven mixed-meter rants to catharsis-inducing mini-epics, the band borrows pages out of the books of both Kate Bush and Alice Coltrane, suggesting a classical, organic, avant-jazz-oriented Cocteau Twins or a "white witch" counter to the haunting Diamanda Galas.
Jaggery found its footing in New York, writing and performing under different monikers until 2004 when the band began to take its current shape: singer/songstress/pianist Singer Mali is flanked by a rotating lineup of musicians and instrumentation, including Daniel Schubmehl's West African and jazz approach to the drum kit, Tony Leva's often prepared upright bass, Rachel Jayson's avant-classical viola, and Petaluma Vale's glistening Celtic harp and backing vocals.
Jaggery have brought their dark and dramatic sound to the stage of Boston's NEMO conference in 2005, Toronto's NXNE in 2011, and have opened for Amanda Palmer and Wye Oak. Their live show has become as much a theatrical performance as an audio one, with the band often accompanied by dancers, aerialists, and film.
Jaggery (the word comes from the dark brown, Indian sugar) has toured up and down the east coast, and has released four recordings: 2004's In Lethe EP, 2006's Polyhymnia, 2010's Upon A Penumbra, and their most recent release, 2012's Private Violence EP, which garnered international praise. Jaggery's first music video ("O Scorpio") won their director "Most Promising New England Filmmaker 2009" at the Boston Underground Film Festival. Their second ("Sea of Sideways) was featured at BUFF 2011.
MARY OCHER
"Singer-songwriter, poet, artist and ocassional dj, Born Maria Ocheretianskaya (Russian: Мария Очеретянская, Hebrew: מאריה אוצ'רטיאנסקי) an only child, to a voice and puppet theater actor father and an unemployed engineer Mother, on November 10 1986, in Moscow, Russia, then part of the Soviet Union. Her family immigrated to Israel on February 21 1991. first to a kibbutz in the Negev, in the southof Israel and several months later to Tel Aviv. Later forced to change her name to Miriam, while studying at a religious Jewish school in Israel. studied film in an art high school in Tel-Aviv, from which she had dropped out at the beginning of the 12th grade. At the age of 18 she adopted Ocher as a last name.
In December 2006 formed Mary and The Baby Cheeses, a highly noted band in the Israeli underground circles and media in 2007, in October of the following year the band has moved to Berlin, where later she had changed the entire line-up.
In December 2008 released "War songs" with 13 acoustic apocalyptic folk songs (and a single "bonus" track) about war, crime and related murder. which was rereleased through Haute Areal on March 11 2011.
In mid 2009 several of her poems and "the origins of evil" photography project have been published in several on-line and printed magazines.
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1667 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambrdge, MA 02138
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