MCB highly suggests checking out this show - WOW!
LOLA MORALES, “WRITE MY STORY” CD RELEASE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2nd 8 PM
THE MAGIC BAG THEATRE
FERNDALE MI
On Thursday, October 2nd, in Ferndale’s Magic Bag Theatre, a talented singer/ songwriter will make her mark in Detroit music history when she releases her first full-length CD, with a release party that will also include an electrifying performance to celebrate the self-release of, “Write My Story”.
Her Story-Lola Morales is the singer/songwriter’s name, and one you will be hearing quite a lot from in the future. Lola Morales’ music, which has been-categorized as “World Music”, creates a seamless blend of Salsa, Funk, R & B, Pop and even Jazz- and just about every strain of North and South American popular music into something quite, well…American.
Sung in both Spanish and English, Lola Morales’ music is more than Latin Pop - it’s is a melting pot of the entire Americas, North and South, from Argentina to the coldest climes of North America. Lola Morales is the product of immigrant Nicaraguan parents, whose father played Salsa piano, and grew up living in predominately Black neighborhoods of San Francisco.A stunning beauty with her trademark corkscrew hair, which only adds another element to the mix -a sultry and exotic sexuality, has resided in Hamtramck for the past two years, while electrifying audiences and critics alike as she crafted both her EP, “Luna Nova” in 2006 and her latest, ‘Write My Story” at Rust Belt Studios in Royal Oak.
American Music-The face of America is changing- and Lola Morales is a musical vindication of this reality. Lola Morales music is a Pan American sound, where indie rock feels right at home with Salsa or Norteno, and Soul commingles with decidedly Brasilliano rhythm to create this collection of first rate New American music. It’s an undeniable synthesis of hybrid cultural genetics. For her, Detroit represented an edge, a fertile bed of Proto-punk, techno and soulful Hip Hop that cover this town like a sheet, blanket and comforter. Lola Morales has reveled in this bed of talent and styles that is Detroit. She likens her residence here, to her “Post Graduate” work.
From Berkeley To Buenos Aires-“Write My Story” is an appropriate CD title for this globe-trotting Troubadora, seeing as Morales has lived and worked everywhere from her native San Francisco to Quito, Ecuador, Tokyo, Japan to London England, Singapore and now Detroit, where she’s soaked up this region’s rich musical heritage – and their world-class musicians, at the behest of her Step-father, who happens to live in Hamtramck.Gaining a degree from Berkeley (CA) in Rhetoric it’s no surprise that she pens such smart and incisive lyrics, delivered in both Spanish and English- depending on the music, is a testament to her love of language as well as music.Write My Story defies simple categorization. Like a rhythmic rubber band, Morales and her crack outfit including bassist, Paul Randolph and Eric Hogemeyer on keyboards, segue imperceptibly from middle eastern to a salsa beat in such a slippery fashion that it’ll leave you shaking your head as well as your body, as evidenced in the superb album opener, Enciedeme.
The sensual, jazzy groove of “Sunrise”, is Urban R & B with a twist of Steely Dan sprinkled with Morales’ powerful phrasing and knack for a sticky sweet hook, is another stunner. A lot of the credit goes Rustbelt Studios, Al Sutton and Eric Hoegemeyer’s sympathetic and unobtrusive production to this eclectic buffet of styles and choice rhythms. It just might be some of the best work of their career’s, as well as their most challenging.Morales also won the 2007 Detroit Music Award for Best World Vocalist in addition to 2 other nominations. Opening the party will be, Pathe Jassi ‘s World Experience, an amazing band with a Senegalese front man, adding to this evening of exotic and rhythmic music.
The Magic Bag 22920 Woodward Avenue Ferndale, MI 48220
Event Hotline: (248) 544-3030
http://www.themagicbag.com/
More Lola on the Web:
www.myspace.com/lolamorales
http://www.lolamoralesmusic.com/