Mark's Monster Drawing

We’re in the process of rebuilding our website now. This wordpress site will suffice until we find the time to code and design something proper.

We moved to a new rehearsal space in March. Our new headquarters overlooks the greenish brown southern branch of the Chicago River, midway between the former Czech (now Mexican, soon to be bourgeois) ghetto of Pilsen and Chinatown, in a weathered room of an old lumber warehouse. We’ve spent the last two months rebuilding our repertoire and planning to record an album this summer. We immersed ourselves in the tale of “Frankenstein”, Thursday Night Horror Movies, the music of Bach, Berg, Beethoven, Ayumi Hamasaki and German expressionism. In what seemed like the longest winter of all, we set out to tell a story about a girl who becomes a monster; a monster that breaks the world in twain.

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