Moriarty Cross the Atlantic for Performances at Canadian Music Week and SXSW

March 3rd, 2009

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Formed in Paris as the century turned, Moriarty saw five young musicians adopt each other and write songs like novels or short movies. A voice drunk on honey, a double bass, suitcase drums, acoustic and electric guitars and a harmonica. The music of Moriarty floats between folk, country, blues and cabaret set somewhere around Dallas in the 1930′s, the Russian Taïga and Paris. An infectious melody is carried by the luminous Rosemary, supported by unsettling lyrics and oozing train-like beats. Moriarty share their record label, Naive, with the first lady of France, Carla Bruni, and have played shows at mental institutions, ruined castles in Italy, Transatlantic ships and even stranger set-ups.

Be sure to check them out as they come across the Atlantic for performances at more conventional venues during Canadian Music Week and South by Southwest:

Mar 14 2009- 7:00PM- Reverb- Canadian Music Week- Toronto, CA

Mar 21 2009- 12:00PM- Press Here Party- SXSW Music Festival- Austin, Texas

Mar 21 2009- 8:00PM- Victorian room at the Driskill- SXSW Music Festival- Austin, Texas

Here’s how The Sunday Telegraph sums them up:

“Think early Neil Young meets lo-fi Americana fronted by a girl named Rosemary with a sweet and strange, trilingly birdlike folk/blues voice, which has been described plausibly as ‘like Billie Holiday fronting Calexico’.”

Check out the video for “Jimmy”, the lead single off of Gee whiz but this is a lonesome town, which was recently certified Gold in France and grab the PromoTrack below:

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“Jimmy” (mp3)
from “Gee whiz but this is a lonesome town”
(Naive)