Sabrina Chap Concert - We are The Parade!
Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:15pm
- 18+
We are thrilled to have the amazing, the talented, the sexy and the twisted Sabrina Chap back at the Center for Sex Positive Culture for an early evening of music and fun. If you missed her the last year she, don’t miss her this time. And for those of you who saw her last time, I’m sure you remember her nasty and sexy songs and will want to see what she’s come up with for this year.
Doors will open at 6:15 PM and performance will start at 6:45.
(Admission includes a $5 discount for the Power Play Mixed Tape party following, if you’re a member or a guest of a member).
SABRINA CHAP'S got classical piano skills, the ballad lyrics of Tom Waits, the onstage antics of Phyllis Diller and the voice of a whiskey angel. Her sets are a ragtime stompin' good time, full of laughs, heart-breaks, and just plain good songwriting. Chap tours nationally and internationally as a cabaret chanteuse and raconteur, playing alongside some of burlesque/variety entertainment's biggest acts - including World Famous *Bob*, Helen Pontani, the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, Trixie Little and Evil Hate Monkey, Miss Ekaterina, and Tigger. Her first album, "Oompa!" was lauded as a "...knee slapping, bawdy good time" (Sepiachord). Her latest album "We Are the Parade" is inspired by her time in burlesque and cirkus scene, and has been called 'Joyous' by the Advocate. She has the honor of having burlesque ladies across the nation dance to her tunes, while variety artists such as Pinch & Squeal and The Pickwick Frolic Revue, have performed them. A true entertainer, which the New Yorker has called her 'Rousing' and by Go Magazine has called "...guaranteeably vaudevillian chic and undeniably impressive", Sabrina Chap simply wants to make you smile. sabrinachap.com
Watch Sabrina’s new video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg4ODQhdwTw
ABOUT THE NEW ALBUM
Sabrina Chap has been called many things. A mix between Julie Andrews and Divine. A sexy Tom Lehrer. A post-modern Cirkus MILF. Whatever you call her, this insane sex bomb of hilarity is bringing her whiskey soaked vocals and piano driven tunes to her second studio album, a ridiculous explosion of politics, horns and wit called, ‘We Are the Parade’.?
‘We Are the Parade’ was inspired by a failed photo shoot for Chap’s previous album, ‘Oompa!’, an album filled with piano bar ragtime & heartbreak. After the initial shoot, Chap (a former drum major) took a look at the photos and said, “These photos don’t look like piano ragtime tunes. These photos look like my next album.”
Armed with the cover art, Chap turned her inner band geek on high and started writing. She turned her pen to the wildly absurd, matters of the heart and the insanity of American politics. From the Prop 8 inspired anthem, “We are the Parade” to the driving tune, “Everything’s Great”, which touches on America’s obsession with self-denial, this witty, political and personal album catches an artist on the verge of an artistic break-through.
Inspired by the music of Jacques Brel and the incidental music on 30 Rock, Chap took her music compositional skills to the test, orchestrating 10 of the 13 tunes. Drummer Lee Free (MEN) anchored the beats through a range of styles including Dixie, Latin and soul. The girls of Brooklyn post- punk soul band, Ava Luna lent their doo-wop vocal stylings, while Corn Mo (Polyphonic Spree) added accordion behind a Julliard trained string trio on the more orchestral tunes. Three different sets of brass (members from Gato Loco, Red Hook Ramblers, Sonia Leigh) retained their original brass flavors on separate tracks, while joining to create a big band sound. Though the album features over 25 musicians, the orchestral sounds on We Are the Parade were often created by recording an instrument at a time.
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