Alexander Trocchi (with Tod Browning's FREAKS) by Tosh Berman

 

Alexander Trocchi (With Tod Browning's "Freaks") by Tosh Berman. Read it here:  

Alexander Trocchi (with Tod Browning's FREAKS) by Tosh Berman

Les Sewing Sisters' Live Stream Show July 30, 2021. 7PM PDT/10 PM ET

 

Grab your tickets to see Lun*na's Les Sewing Sisters perform their live streaming set - TOMORROW Fri July 30th at 7pm PDT / 10pm ET. Watch from anywhere!

Tickets here:

Tickets for Les Sewing Sisters' live streaming show

"Martini" by Tosh Berman

 

Tosh Berman on William Powell's The Thin Man, Booth Tarkington, Irwin Corey, Thelma Todd, and The Thin Man's Martini: Read it here: 

Martini by Tosh Berman

Les Sewing Sisters - Fashionable Nonsense (Official Video)

Les Sewing Sisters will be doing a live streaming show on Friday July 30 at 7PM pacific coast time. 

Tickets and information here: 

Tickets to live streaming Les Sewing Sisters show

John Ashbery & Marcel Duchamp (& Me) by Tosh Berman

 

"John Ashbery & Marcel Duchamp (& Me) by Tosh Berman. Read it here: 

John Ashbery & Marcel Duchamp (& Me)

Inside Café Tosh's Thoughts by Tosh Berman

 

Inside Café Tosh's Thoughts by Tosh Berman

Read it here

My Peter Gunn by Tosh Berman

 

"My Peter Gunn" by Tosh Berman.  

Read it here: My Peter Gunn

In Praise of Shadows by Tosh Berman

 

"In Praise of Shadows" by Tosh Berman. Read it here: 

In Praise of Shadows by Tosh Berman

Tosh Berman's Liner Notes for Les Sewing Sisters' Album

 

Here is my liner notes for the debut Les Sewing Sisters' album "Les Sewing Sisters." Read it here: Tosh's Liner Notes for Les Sewing Sisters' album

Les Sewing Sisters' New Album "Les Sewing Sisters"

 

The new and the very first album by Les Sewing Sisters is released today. On all of your favorite streaming sites, but also here on Bandcamp. You can purchase and listen to this masterpiece digital album for $10. Buy it here:

Les Sewing Sisters Digital album

My Melancholy Life by Tosh Berman

 

"My Melancholy Life" by Tosh Berman. Read it here: 

My Melancholy Life by Tosh Berman

The World of Tosh Berman, Wednesday July 21, 2021 (Pandora's Box)

 

Tosh Berman's Pandora Box with Poetic Realism/Jean Vigo. Read it here: 

Pandora Opening Her Box by Tosh Berman

SPELLLING: The Turning Wheel (Sacred Bone)

 

Read the review here!

Tosh Berman on SPELLLING's "The Turning Wheel" album. A remarkable work.

"BOLERO Sewing Machine" Lun*na Menoh highlights, de-fashion show + Les S...

this Maurice Ravel 's Bolero made by all sewing machine noise sampling. Lun*na Menoh is a Japanese born Renaissance artist who lives in Los Angeles. Her work deals with fashion, clothing and exposing the invisible thread between performance and fabric by making sculpturesque dresses, paintings, and a series of fashion shows with her conceptual but wearable outfits. she started creating music since early 2000. her most recent band is Les Sewing Sisters which is the first sewing machine band in the history.

Les Sewing Sisters's new album "Les Sewing Sisters"

 

Our new album is produced by Adam Lee Miller (ADULT.)!!

will be out July 23rd! @ band camp

About Streaming Live Show on July 30th

https://bit.ly/3hgIogR

Buy "Sparks-Tastic" by Tosh Berman here!

 

In 2008, Tosh Berman—author and publisher of TamTam Books—got on a plane with a single motive: Sparks Spectacular. It had been announced that the band Sparks would perform all twenty-one of their albums in a succession of twenty-one nights in London...a monumental experience for any Sparks fanatic, which Tosh certainly is. Part travel journal, part personal memoir, Berman takes us through the streets of London and Paris, observing each city's history and culture through the eye of an obsessive Sparks fan. Including album-by-album reviews of all twenty-one shows and beyond, Sparks-Tastic defines a place and time in music history that's too defining to be ignored.  

Get the book here: 

Buy "Sparks-Tastic" here

Tosh Berman on Shaun Cassidy's "Wasp" (1980, Warner Brothers Records)

 

Tosh Berman on Shaun Cassidy's "Wasp." Made and recorded in 1980. But now reissued in 2021 for Record Store Day. 

Read it here!

The Needle Is Damaged by Les Sewing Sisters

here are no guitars, drums, synths - just voices and the beautiful sounds of the sewing machine fine-tuned via computer. new album- July 23rd @ band camp About Streaming Live Show on July 30th

Book Musik (No. 50) Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall with guest Dave Ehrlich

 

Book Musik 050 – Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall with guest Dave Ehrlich

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Book Musik

Tosh and Kimley discuss Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (ed. by Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley) with special guest, number one fan of The Fall, Dave Ehrlich. We are neophytes to the forbidding and frankly overwhelming world of The Fall, so we’ve enlisted Dave to be our Sherpa. Dave’s been a super fan since the 80s and guides us through The Fall’s mysterious landscape. This is not a band for the faint of heart and their prodigious output means there’s some work to be done to explore their universe, but we’ve found that the rewards are more than worth it. We’re quickly becoming super fans as well.

Les Sewing Sisters Live from their closet via Moment House Friday July 30 7PM (Pacific Coast Time)

 

Les Sewing Sisters are Lun*na Menoh and Saori Mitome. On their upcoming self-titled debut, you hear noise from sewing machines fine-tuned via computer and the human voice. There are no guitars, drums, synths - just voices and the beautiful sound of the sewing machine.

Lun*na and Saori looked back to the industrial age when the sewing machine came into existence and looked onward to making the ‘now’ sound of Les Sewing Sisters.

Lun*na first started using her sewing machines as an instrument when she did a version of Maurice Ravel’s Bolero performed and premiered at the sold out Valaslavasay Panorama in 2016.

Les Sewing Sisters opened up for the band Sparks in 2017 and 2018. In 2019, they did the Les Sewing Sisters home tour, where they did 22 performances in people’s closet space.

On Friday July 30, you can virtually experience the band LIVE from their closet via Moment House!

Get tickets:

https://www.momenthouse.com/co/lessewingsistershometour

Photos by Theo Rasmussen