Lisa Poushinsky packs a “stiletto punch”
PRESS RELEASE – Ottawa-based singer-songwriter, L. Poushinsky, is already well known for her hallmark dramatic vibrato and rich, lyric-driven song-writing. Self-styled, “feverish cabaret folk rock for lovers and wolves,” as she calls her material, she combines intimacy and naivety – in the French chanteuse tradition – with a stiletto punch.
Her 3rd CD, “Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter,” to be released with a live performance in Ottawa (at the Ecclesiax Church, 2 Monk Street) on Friday, Nov 13th with many special guests, and cookies too.
Ottawa’s excellent country crooner Trevor Alguire will open the show.
Doors open at 8:30, music starts at 9.
Tickets will be sold at the Monk St entrance. $10 per ticket, and $20 at the door gets you a CD too.
Like her previous releases and more than 100 live performances (with bands Red Fey, Hollow Water, and as a solo performer,) Poushinsky delivers deliciously interesting compositions about love and life that are musically textured and emotionally exposed.
But there’s no self-indulgence here.
Poushinky does not wallow.
With a subtle touch, Poushinsky navigates her audience through a raw emotional landscape with a quirky, flirty, even frolicky bounce. The complex jazz-fusion instrumentation throughout “Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter” provides a sweetness to the vulnerable femme fatale vocals that are powerful.
Her band is first-rate, and includes many notable Canadian musicians, including:
Adam Fogo (upright electric Zeta bass and bass guitar); Craig Pederson (trumpet); Brian Simms (electric lead guitar and b.u. vox); Brendan Allistone (electric lead guitar and b.u. vox); Mike Schultz (trombone); Ashley Newall (bass guitar and b.u. vox); Evan Runge (violin); Kader Blaine (banjo and b.u. vox), Tim Watson (drums), and even Bova chips in with hand claps, back up vocals, and maracas.
Now Poushinsky is taking her new material on the road in her CD Release tour, first to Ottawa, where she’ll recreate the CD in its entirety with 12 accompanying musicians at the Ecclesiax Church (on Monk St. in the Glebe); she’ll share the bill with Ottawa alt-country crooner Trevor Alguire.
Then Poushinsky will take the show on the road and tour Southern Ontario with Dave Norris and Local Ivan for a series of double CD release parties that promise to be a true musical tour de force.
Ottawatonite will be sharing in the Ottawa performance and bringing some special moments from the show to YOU. Come on down to the Glebe on Friday November 13th and take in Lisa’s show, share in her spirit and cookies too!
To hear sample tracks from “Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter,” and a regularly updated tour calendar, visit:
www.myspace.com/lpoushinsky
Tags: CD release, Music, Ottawa Tonite
November 21st, 2009 at 11:12 pm
When I saw this poster, I thought, “What a fabulous book cover!” That does it; she has to write a novel.