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SHILPA RAY – ” Nihilism EP “

Posted: April 26, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The ‘Nihilism’ EP comes hot on the heels of 2017’s critically acclaimed LP ‘Door Girl.’ Inspired by and written after binge watching the Grateful Dead documentary series Long Strange Trip, her original song “Shoot This Dying Horse” is a rainy day waltz about how bad things can happen to anyone, at any time in the most random and meaningless ways. More specifically, it’s about getting dumped at a bar two days before Christmas. No horses were harmed during the writing and recording of this track. Musically this was a lot of fun to write and arrange.

Shilpa comments “I had binge watched Long Strange Trip, the Grateful Dead documentary series, and immediately began to mess around with the chord changes for “Shoot This Dying Horse.” I’ve never considered myself to be a dead head but there is something in their music that makes me want to write.

Additionally, Shilpa decided to cover Alice Cooper’s “Is It My Body” after spinning a lot of Cooper in the tour van while on tour in support of ‘Door Girl.’ She explains, “When I paid closer attention to the lyrics, I realized if sung by a woman this song could be a feminist anthem. Who knew Alice Cooper wrote feminist anthems?”

releases May 16th, 2018

“Shoot This Dying Horse” written by Shilpa Ray 2018
“Is It My Body” written by Alice Cooper, Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce, Neal Smith + Glen Buxton 1971

Music performed by

Shilpa Ray , Vocals, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, Farfisa

Alistair Paxton, Guitar

Turner Stough, Bass

Richard Hutchins, Drums, Percussion

Christian Lee Buss,Backing vocals, Farfisa, Synth

SHILPA RAY – ” Pop Song For Euthanasia “

Posted: April 1, 2017 in MUSIC
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Shilpa Rays first solo album, It’s All Self Fellatio, hit stores back in 2013, issued via longtime fan Nick Cave’s own Bad Seed LTD. Now, the Brooklyn singer-songwriter is back with a followup LP due on May 19th through Northern Spy Records. “Last Year’s Savage” spans 11 tracks and is previewed today with the powerful opening number “Burning Bride”.

Here, Ray’s vocals glow like smoldering embers, as she leads an eerie mix of organ, guitar, and glockenspiel. The palpable darkness that emanates from the track can be traced back to a fiendish, forbidden ritual which Ray tackles head-on. “Bride-burning is a banned practice in Hindu culture where they burn the wife alive after her husband has died,” .

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“In the olden days, priests set up some rules about a woman’s role and duties to her husband and god as a way to manipulate people into honoring this ritual, however the actual reason the priests did it was to obtain the wealth and property of the deceased. I had to take this story — the image of it — and use it to write about getting fucked in the ass during modern times.”

Last Year’s Savage Tracklist:
01. Burning Bride
02. Pop Song for Euthanasia
03. On Broadway
04. Johnny Thunder’s Fantasy Space Camp
05. Oh My Northern Soul
06. Nocturnal Emissions
07. Colonel Mustard in the Billiard Room
08. Sanitary iPad
09. Moksha
10. Pipe Dreams Ponzi Schemes
11. Hymn

SHILPA RAY – ” Last Years Savage “

Posted: December 7, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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I first stumbled upon Shilpa Ray when she was still roaming the circuit with her band “Happy Hookers” in tow. My first Shilpa Ray live experience was nothing short of a religious one at the summer festival event in Leicester. Rarely had I experienced such a combination of power and emotion that Ray spewed that day at a festival that doesn’t even exist anymore. Her newest album takes the dirty, bluesy, cacophonous rock that Ray perfected on previous releases and strips it down, at times, more lucid trajectory. But that rocket ship is still aimed at the sun no matter what speed it’s traveling at and the more ethereal aesthetic of this album just seems to make Ray’s music slightly more unnerving in its honesty and grit. This album is a triumph and how Ray hasn’t already become the darling of the entire indie rock world is absolutely beyond me.

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Nobody grows up wanting to be an artist’s artist. Appreciated by the sub sect of other musicians is like being the beauty queen at the leper colony.  Shilpa Ray is, through no fault of her own, one of our unsung great artists. Having made her bones with the gothic Sturm und Drang of Beat The Devil and moving forward to the blues erosion of “…and The Happy Hookers” Shilpa Ray has been, armed only with an incomparable voice and harmonium haunted by the ghosts of dead lovers, perpetually crying in the wind, hoisting both middle fingers in the general direction of god. It’s not a life a wise man would choose. Shilpa Ray kicks against the pricks but the pricks keep coming. But, again, what can you do?

The obsessions with sex, death, bodily functions, and betrayal (not necessarily in that order) remain but Shilpa has expanded the palate to convey the resignation, the simmering discontent of an artist disenfranchised and held down. This is a quieter rage than the music Shilpa Ray has made before, more plaintive and considered.

Shilpa Ray has, up till this, point, yes, been an “artist’s artist.” Just about every musician in New York City, who doesn’t hate her, loves her. Nick Cave sings her praises to all with the ears to listen (he brought her along a European tour as an opener and as a backup singer in the States).

SHILPA RAY – “Nocturnal Emissions

Posted: October 29, 2014 in MUSIC
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Far away from the howls of Ridgewood Queens, while the band played a punk rhythm Shilpa Ray was hunched over her harmonium pushing and pulling getting weird sounds out of the little box Shilpa has toured with Nick Cave as a backing vocalist plus with two full length albums released with her band “The Happy Hookers which had a lot of commercial acclaim, She has been compared to Blondie and the Cramps with her flavoured gothic burlesque look. A new album is said to be underway