Karin Tatoyan. FUCK. Seriously, if you haven't seen this woman perform live, or visited her
myspace page (there's a brand new track listed!) or have
heard me rave about her then you need to get familiar. She is a force to be reckoned with. I have some Karin related goodies for you all this afternoon: The first, an lil interview that we conducted with the muse, herself. The second, some information on the show that she has coming up this week, August 8th, at
Spaceland. She'll be playing with an awesome line up, featuring The Sad Solids (Sarah of
The Happy Hollows) and a special guest!! People, I'm super excited...won't you join me? Well, you will if you know what's good for you. I'll even let you buy me a drink!
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KTM: What made you decide to do a cover of Wilco's Radio Cures?
Karin: I wanted to do a cover, but when it came down to deciding what song to do I was lost. The only thing I knew was that the song had to make me feel something. This song was a suggestion made by my manager,
Joshua Fisher. If it was left up to me I might have covered a Nat King Cole song but when I listened to the lyrics I automatically knew it was the one. I felt like those words could have been my own, speaking about the happenings in my brain. I think Joshua felt completely confident that I could take a song like Radio Cure and make it my own or at least not botch it. I of course had to add an S to the title just so I could botch it a little. Botched up things are beautiful, too. So yes, I have had a lot of positive feed back when it comes to this cover, so i think i may have chosen the right song.
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KTM: Seriously, it doesn't get any better than that. Beautiful answer. What are you currently listening to?
Karin: Hmm...well honestly I've been listening to my band mate Andrew Carter's beautiful Found Sound compositions. They're so magical and superimposed.
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KTM: Who is
The One Second Time Machine? How did you two meet and come to collaborate?
Karin: The One Second Time Machine, a.k.a. Thomas Greene, is a multi-instrumentalist who was recommended by the label I just released my EP on. He's pretty rad because he is a time machine that makes things happen. I say, "Oh my god I want the beat to sound like this and go like that" and then he sits there with me and we make it happen. He's a visionaries wet dream come true because he'll make whatever ridiculous idea I have possible and if we don't know how we're going to do it, he'll have it figured out by the end of the day with three different options. The vision I had in mind for my music is pretty ambitious and wouldn't be possible without my nerdy boys One Sec and Andrew Carter (cello player/Found Sound extraordinare) who are able to understand my music and see my vision through.
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KTM: What are your plans for the rest of 2008?
Karin: As far as 2008 is concerned, right now I am only concentrating on one thing, and that is playing as many shows as possible and getting my music out there. I also really hope to tour, tour, tour.
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KTM: What's your favorite show that you've played so far?
Karin: Opening for Auvoir Simone was so cool. The crowd was so generous and really got into it and the girls from Auvoir were really supportive, so I found myself in beautiful company and rolling around in glee. And then there was the Spaceland show opening for
The Pity Party (who's music I love) which was grand because the sound system allowed for the intricacies of the electronics to be heard. That's really important or else there's no point.
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KTM: What's your favorite venue in and outside of L.A.?
Karin: Right now, I have a few favorite venues. As far as playing, I love the Troubadour. I think my sound is quite big, and personally, I think I have sounded my best at the Troubadour. As far as a scene goes, you can't really beat Spaceland and The Echo. I have already been apart of some amazing shows at these venues and will continuing playing them.
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KTM: I read a funny blog about you posted about opening up for Kate Nash and your experience. Wanna talk about it? (hehehehe)
Karin: Uhhhhh... Hmmm... Well...I opened for her and that was so exciting and amazing because she's a strong talented female performer and to me, that's an experience I wanted to positively remember. BUT after the show I went up to her to tell her how great she was and to thank her for the opportunity and she was blatantly insincere and rude. And I've gotten some shit for publicly being honest about this experience but I won't sensor my life or my words in my OWN blog just because 'people'
expect a certain etiquette. I am an honest human and I will tell you how life feels whether or not it appears as though I am the ass for saying so. It hurt my feelings- so i named her Kate Ass in a blog I wrote. LOL. She's exactly the kind of humble and down to earth artist I want to be like. My manager won't let you print this. Hahaha
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Be sure to get your little asses to Spaceland on FRIDAY. I love you. You're beautiful. Thank you for reading and for your continued support.
One last thing: Visit
Web In Front for an listen of an exclusive new track mentioned earlier in this post and other Karin related goodies.
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