Featured Artist: JOEMCA
Brooklyn-based electronic/indie songwriter Joemca presents his debut EP, out this winter on One Stone Records. This brilliant young artist crafts dreamy hypnotic beats with lush walls-of-sound and occasional accents of distortion. The JOEMCA(jum + ka) EP, which he co- produced with producer/mixer Rob Stevens (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Yoko Ono, Toshi Reagon), employs the catchiest of vocal melodies with dynamic and memorable song structures. It's one of the the coolest five-song debuts out this year, with its first single being “Strangers”.While Joemca's overall sound is admittedly hard to pinpoint, with songs like the lushly sonic “Ode to the Sea” and the sublimely heartbreaking “Panic Friend”, Joemca has been compared to a diverse selection of artists, including Bjork, Rufus Wainwright & Bono.
Joemca has been classically trained in violin and piano. Occasionally, he moonlights as a Composer/Sound Designer/SoundEngineer for various experimental theater-based companies which feature Joemca's unique soundscores. These works include an original score for a re-envisioned ancient Chinese opera, soundscore/music for Audiomatic Theater's original & adapted audioplays, soundscore for various puppet show adaptations including Gogol's The Nose, and several Murakami-inspired short pieces. Joemca performs his scores live.
Joemca - "Strangers"
Featured Artist: Noctaluca
I received an email from Dick yesterday about Cincy's own Noctaluca yesterday.
Noctaluca is described by Cincy Music Online as "A fusion of sound, love, and fury. It's rock that sticks to your fingertips. You will go home from a show with pieces of it in you hair."
Noctaluca is the brainchild of Jason Ludwig, winner of last year's Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Singer/Songwriter of the Year (2003). Pell Mell, Ludwig's debut album, also recieved a nomination for Album of the Year. Citybeat magazine called the album "a masterpiece."
Noctaluca website