Amanda Palmersinger and keyboardist of the American dark cabaret duo Dresden Dolls, presents his debut solo album in Milan, entitled 'Who killed Amanda Palmer'scheduled for release in the autumn. He will be on stage at the Music Drome Friday 17 Octoberfollowing a tour that is currently crossing the United States and will be coming to Europe in the coming months.
A creative and multifaceted character, Amanda was born in 1976 in Massachusetts (United States) and began playing and composing songs at the age of four, despite not being able to read sheet music, a shortcoming that would continue for the rest of her life but that did not preclude her career as a composer. After various musical experiences, on Halloween night 2000 she met Brian Viglionewith which it founds the Dresden Dollsduo that defines their music "brechtian punk cabaret"due to influences from the circus, burlesque and rock genres. Brian and Amanda like to enrich their performances with theatrical skits in which they appear in make-up and mimic the movements of puppets and 'living statues', presenting different types of art simultaneously. The Dresden Dolls' success explodes in the 2004 following the publication of the single Coin-operated boyfrom the previous year's album 'Dresden Dolls'. This was followed by a series of dates around the world and the pair's participation in various projects, including a musical a book. Palmer performed three sold-out US concerts in 2007 with the Aberdeen Cityalternative rock band, and then with the EstradasphereThey help her with her long-standing idea of releasing a solo album. He thus enters the recording studio of the American singer-songwriter Ben Folds in Nashville, to realise 'Who Killed Amanda Palmer', an expression borrowed from fans of the 'Twin Peaks' serial who used to say "Who Killed Laura Palmer", referring to the murder of one of the main characters. The release of the album on the Roadrunner label is scheduled for mid-September, but to allay the anticipation Amanda has already revealed that Ben Folds not only produced the album but also recorded percussion and keyboard sections and that Zoë Keating of Rasputina will play cello on it. On the subject of the songs, she has instead declared that many will be piano-ballads that have not found a home in the Dresden Dolls' work, but that it will nonetheless be an energetic and intense record, shaped by woodwinds, timpani and organ, for a result that she herself described as 'almost biblical'.
Amanda Palmer, although appearing for the first time in Italy without the drummer of the Dresden Dolls, will certainly not fail to amaze the audience with an engaging and eclectic performance, whose dark and mystical tones are already inherent, perhaps not by chance, in the date itself:
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER 2008 - MILAN - MUSIC DROME
Concert starts at 9 p.m.
Admission 18€ + prev
