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Genre: Alternative / Punk / Rock
Location New York, New York, US
Profile Views: 216761
Last Login: 31/10/2010
Member Since 07/07/2005
Website http://www.myspace.com
Type of Label Indie
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.. .. .. .... .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. ...................... .... ....MANAGEMENT:.... .... BACKSTAGE ALLIANCE.. Virpi Immonen.. virpi.immonen@backstagealliance.com.. PH:+358 (41) 518 6243.. Urho Kekkosen katu 4-6 A, 3.krs.. 00100 Helsinki, Finland.. .. .. BOOKING:.. Toni Ritonen.. toni.ritonen@backstagealliance.com.. PH:+358 (50) 404 4573.. .. ..madjuana.com.... ..Reverbnation.com/madjuana.... ..Facebook.com fan page.... ..Twitter @Mad_Juana.... .... ....MAD JUANA BIO.... -------------------------------------------.. 3 Idiots / New York Marvelous Single Now ..Available On iTunes and Digital Music Stores!.. .. Hi Everyone,.. We in MAD JUANA are happy to announce the digital release of the first single from our upcoming new album "Kumpania". ..The songs - "New York Marvelous" and "3 Idiots" - are part of a 12 song story originally intended as a staged musical, telling about life and love of New York City gypsies. The idea was conceived by Andrew Kriss and the story written by Jeff Hoagland. ..Karmen Guy and I wrote the music for it, with Karmen collaborating on the lyrics, with Jeff... .. The recordings were done in my loft/studio in New York City's Hells Kitchen, during winter and early spring 2009. ..We had the pleasure of collaborating with some fantastic musicians from different parts of world, in addition to the regular Mad Juana players. Thank you Marco Aquilar, Fernando Apodaca, Frank London, Sarina Sunno and Zach Brock... .. The albums release date is not yet set, but stay tuned. In the meanwhile, we hope you all will enjoy these songs... .. With love,.. Sami Yaffa, Helsinki 15.8-2010.. --.. 3 Idiots / New York Marvelous single available now in digital music stores!.. Amazon.com.. www.amazon.com/3-Idiots/dp/B003YWEIUY.. iTunes.. http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/storeFront.. Play.com.. www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download-Track/4-/16079461/3-Idiots/Product.html.. Meteli.net.. http://meteli.net/downloads/levy/3-Idiots/86730269.. Cdon.com.. http://downloads.cdon.com/index.phtml?country=fi&page=product&albumid=86730269.. ----------------------------------------.. www.myspace.com/madjuana.. www.reverbnation/madjuana.. www.twitter.com/mad_juana.. www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Mad-Juana/11927457335?ref=ts.. -------------------------------------------.. Mad Juana, spiritually originates from Patti Smith’s 1978 book, “Babel” and ties its disparate musical threads together with an overarching theory of swagger, theatrics and rebelliousness. New York City art rock, Balkan horns meet mariachi horns, Spanish guitar, international reggae, old world tarantella, punk intentional---Mad Juana is the vehicle through which the worlds music is fed, compressed and released as a single new energetic swirl of life--- revolution, diversity, transformation… The band is led by Sami Yaffa, bassist for the NY Dolls and is spearheaded by front-woman Karmen Guy. Guy’s voice---always on edge---evokes the gruff caterwaul of The Slit’s Ari Up. With such sharp teeth, it’s questionable whether or not she’s made a deal with the devil for it! Mad Juana was created for the world’s block party. It’s assorted members have arrived from the thousand directions, but channel its sound into the single message of evolution and ecstasy. Mad Juana is: Sami Yaffa---guitar, Karmen Guy---Vox & Melodica, Danny Ray---Exploding Sax, Marni Rice---Electric Accordion, Brian Newman---Trumpet, Fernando Apodaca---Violin, Dustin Luna & Paul Garisto---Drums and Percussion and Jordan Rodriquez---Bass .... ..Discography:.. "Acoustic Voodoo" was released in Europe thru Diesel Motor Records in 2005 and in U.S. 2007 thru Azra Records to critical acclaim and is available through Azra Records, iTunes and various record stores in Europe and the U.S. “Bruja on the Corner” was released in Europe 8/8/2008 and U.S. 8/12/8 and is available through www.acetaterecords.com, iTunes and various record stores in Europe and the U.S. .... ..Shows:.. The band has toured Europe and U.S. extensively attracting ever growing enthusiastic crowds, playing multi-diverse venues ranging from LES punk dive bars, to Las Vegas street festivals, London art-house parties to theaters in Pais Vasco Spain. Being compared creatively to the likes of Gogol Bordello, (with whom they toured in Oct. 2008) and Manu Chao makes a point but Mad Juana is definitely it's own distinct blend of musical styles mixing Mariachi/New Orleans horns, Balkan/Punk tempos, R'n'R and surreal textures of wall of sound and echoes of dub-reggae to a savory gumbo of pure explosive musical energy. ......Video:.. Director Fernando Apodaca (of Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell fame) directed the band’s most recent video “Valhalla” filmed on location in Zagreb, Croatia and Tijuana River Valley. .... ....NYC DELI REVIEW.... The members of Mad Juana change hats so often – from old-world tarantella to international reggae to downtown NYC art rock to the Eastern European gypsy punk of Gogol Bordello– one finds it difficult to envision a place and time where they don’t fit. The band, led by NY Dolls bassist Sami Yaffa on acoustic guitar, counts instruments varied as tenor saxophone, accordion, violin, trumpet and congas in its 8 member lineup. Front-woman Karmen Guy’s always-on-edge voice evokes the gruff caterwaul of The Slit’s Ari Up with such sharp teeth it’s questionable whether she made a deal with the devil for it. Spiritually, the originator of the band’s name, comes from Patti Smith’s 1978 book “Babel,” ties its disparate threads together with an overarching theory of swagger, theatrics and rebelliousness. Mad Juana is a band created for a block party if there ever was one… by Andrew Frisicano/NYC Deli Magazine ....LA WEEKLY REVIEW.... .. Thursday, Oct.2, 2008 .... EVERY WITCH WAY.. by Falling James.. .... ...."You take the world for granted as you float up on your cake," Karmen Guy purrs with a deceptive sugariness on Mad Juana's new album, Bruja on the Corner (Acetate Records), before digging in the knife. "You think you're some kind of a dignitary, but you're nothing more than a fake," she declares while accordionist Marni Rice, saxist Danny Ray and trumpeter Nico Camargo serenade her with merrily bittersweet, soused and swanky rejoinders straight out of old-time New Orleans. So many musicians invoke witchcraft and voodoo without ever sounding magical, but the New York group are indeed bewitching, with a timelessly exotic blur of Gypsy-punk influences akin to Manu Chao and Gogol Bordello that's taken to another level of enchantment altogether by Guy's sultry chanteuse persona. Her songwriting partner in crime, guitarist-bassist Sami Yaffa, lays down some considerable groovy grooves that go far beyond his previous contributions to Hanoi Rocks and the reconstituted New York Dolls, such as the dreamy dub interlude in the otherwise madcap "Strangers in Paradise" and the stormy acoustic guitars and haunting melodica-flecked sadness of "Circus Downtown." It all culminates most impressively in the sinuously mesmerizing "Revolution Avenue," whose dueling horns, loping dub bass, psychedelic sound effects and Guy's border-dissolving imagery echo the febrile moods of Tijuana No's classic album Contra-Revolucion Avenue. .... ....MAD JUANA-LA WEEKLY TOP PICKS! .... .. August 24, 2008 .... You might remember Sami Yaffa from his days in the early-’80s Finnish hard-rock band Hanoi Rocks (although he’s apparently not involved in their reunion). He recently passed through town as the bassist in the reincarnated New York Dolls, and he wrote the hypnotically descending riff to "We’re All in Love," the catchiest tune on the Dolls’ 2006 comeback CD. But Mad Juana, his ongoing project with his wife, Karmen Guy, is stranger and more exotic than anything else he’s ever done. "Domingo," from the New York band’s upcoming CD, Bruja on the Corner (Azra), starts with mariachi horns and segues into an Old Word vibe with accordion and violin melodies that evoke Manu Chao, Gogol Bordello and Balkan Beat Box. However, Ms. Guy’s bewitching singing takes things to a feverishly madcap place where dub, reggae, flamenco and punk collide seamlessly. It all comes together on "Revolution Avenue," which sounds a little like Nina Hagen fronting Tijuana No! Wicked stuff. (Falling James) .... ....MUSIC CONNECTION REVIEW.... .. Sept. 20, 2005 - Issue ..20 .... Mad Juana.. Viper Room.. West Hollywood, CA.. (Contact: madjuana@gmail.com) .... ..Material:.. There is nothing normal about Mad Juana and their spicy jambalaya of gypsy-bohemian rock. Their material is a bizarre wonderland inhabited by groups such as Gogol Bordello. MJ kick it up a notch by combining European sensibilities with classic American rock. The result is a style of music they call acoustic voodoo. It's a strangely liberating and totally compelling concoction that takes the listener on a wild ride, as it annihilates convention and alters everyone's consciousness. .... ..Musicianship: ..With exotic instrumentation and maddening skills, these players are outstanding. Each musician seems to have a unique approach that gives the music a deep, dark patina. Karmen Guy's vocals blend Cajun inflections with a bluesy bayou sound that makes her voice come across like a humid summer - swampy, sweaty and devastatingly sexy. For a couple of tunes, she even stretched her range into Edith Piaf territory and nailed that French songbird quality. .... ..Performance:.. Normally, with musicality so high any action onstage is like icing on a cake. But Mad Juana obviously refused to settle for anything as simple as that. Instead, their show was a cabaret of warped dimensions and hypnotic visions. Indeed, magical hardly begins to describe it. Intense and spellbinding, their performance was more than memorable. .... ..Summary:.. Hailing from New York's East Village, Mad Juana are like a band of gypsies intent on entertaining the villagers. Breathtaking in execution, their music stirs the soul and inflames passion. And, though some may see them as quirky and strange, this act has created their own genre, and could easily become a niche-market phenomenon. .... ..-Bernard Baur.... ....MAD JUANA "Acoustic Voodoo" Gaz-Eta Review.... ..[Azra, www.azrarecords.com],Gaz-Eta, Polish online magazine.. .... If Concrete Blonde were more blues oriented or did mariachi music and had a sex goddess as their lead vocalist, they may sound something like Mad Juana. Former glam rock [Hanoi Rocks] bassist Sami Yaffa [he actually plays acoustic guitar in this formation] joins powers with accordion player Marni Rice, tenor saxophonist Danny Ray, trumpeter Jimmy Vespa and percussionist Paul Garisto. Let's not forget the star at the centre of attention, vocalist Karmen Guy, who also takes turns playing melodica and percussion. First off, the sound the sextet makes is spectacular. Without a doubt, their low-key acoustic approach is both raunchy as well as quite risqu__. Provocative phrasings and sultry lyrics escape from Guy's mouth. More often than not, her phrases are stretched out in that sex-me-over devilish sort of manner. Save for a few pieces where he wails, saxophonist Danny Ray is underused and when he's used, his work tends to get rather conformist. Yaffa's guitar work is all over the place. This is blues stuff, mean and rotten to the core. The trumpet and accordion add for some nice colouring, but it's the percussion that is absolutely thrilling. The congas played by Paul Garisto are multi-layered as is the percussive shtick. The band's version of "Venus in Furs" is unlike anything you may remember from Velvet Underground. Its acoustic bareness and wailing tenor sax just scream with intensity. Guy being the centre of attention gets star billing. Those stretched-out phrases are intoned just right. Emotion is inserted in all the right places. The place just rocks solid. "Acoustic Voodoo" is one of the more pleasant surprises so far this year. - Tom Sekowski .... ...... ...... ........ .. .. .. I got my layout at ..Cleanupmyspace.com.. ..
Members
Sami Yaffa (acoustic guitar)..Karmen Guy (vox, melodica and other shakers & finger bells)..Danny Ray (tenor saxophone)..Frank London (trumpet)..Mal Stein (drums,)..Marni Rice (electric accordion,vocals)..Zach Brock (violin)..George DeVoe (bass). .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Video--"VALHALLA" directed by Fernando Apodaca.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
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26 Feb

Mad Juana

Tonight our final show @ Bowery Electric in NYC! Last night was an amazing show! Thanks all for coming down. But, the party begins, tonight.
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26 Feb

Mad Juana

Thanks to everyone who came to last night's show at Bowery Electric in NYC!
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25 Feb

Mad Juana

TONITE and TOMORROW we're at BOWERY ELECTRIC 10 sharp!!! Heads up; come early.
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25 Feb

Mad Juana

Wonderful show @ Record Collector last night! Thanks to all! TONITE and TOMORROW we're at BOWERY ELECTRIC 10 sharp!!! Heads up; come early.
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24 Feb

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MAD JUANA in South NJ and New York City this Weekend! http://lnk.ms/YxlDz
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