Skeleton flower
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LOCATION: Seattle WA
GENRE: Art Rock, Melodic Rock
INFLUENCES: Bjork, Grizzly Bear, Deerhoof, Rubble Bucket, Blonde Redhead, older Dirty Projectors, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, St Vincent, Little Dragon, Anohni
PUBLICIST: Chris Estey / estey@xopublicity.com / 206 728 0457
Bio
Skeleton Flower’s “debut” album is a musical collection filled with gritty honesty, wild imagination, a generous sense of humor, and unleashed artistic expression. It is based on a new performance that is a semi-autobiographical exploration of a creative person’s struggle with identity, depression and the awakening of personal power. As with all of Degenerate Art Ensemble’s work, Director Haruko Crow Nishimura draws on her own difficult and at times violent childhood which led to major breakdowns and years of depression. The work balances compelling supernatural narratives along with exploring how, through creativity, Crow was able to not only survive, but also share the fruits of her imagination with others and transform herself in the process. The piece also deals with the painful and tangled karma that is passed down to us over generations and how we can find ways to untangle that karma and choose our own path for our own lives. It is vibrant with stylistic details and unexpected musical delights, using humor and imagination as it deals with these issues, including casting her family as monsters from a Godzilla movie, and tracing her personal struggle through three fairy tales she was told as a child. The Skeleton Flower dance performance was shown as a work in progress in Bulgaria as part of the Spotlight USA Festival and premiered in Seattle in March of 2019 and they are excited to debut the Skeleton Flower band in September.