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tommy on 05/13/2009 at 10:57AM
The Shivers, NYC
FMA Curator Nadav Carmel has been steadily uploading gems from the WBSR/WMBR/KDVS lo-fi radio show Phoning It In. I've been loving this program since catching a live session back in 2005 featuring Queens, NY-based musician Keith Zarriello, a.k.a., The Shivers.
I was first introduced to Keith's music with the 2004 freeform anti-folk album Charades. Five years and innumerable line-up changes later, The Shivers unique marriage of songwriting technique and live performance has remained intact. Zarriello often provokes his audiences with a direct and unwavering emotional intensity that is part farcical melodrama, part earnest sincerity. Live performances of songs about critical self-awareness and the challenges of integrity seem to simultaneously ridicule taking oneself too seriously while praising the ability to feel comfortable with your own shadow at your feet. See them live, and let the catharsis begin!
They'll be launching their new album In the Morning (as a duo, maybe a trio) with Peter & the Wolf and others TBD on May 18 at the Blender Theater at Gramercy in NY. Enjoy a track from 2008's Beaks to the Moon.
