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Moshe · 01.13.2007, 05:50 AM

http://www.myspace.com/misshighheel

Miss High Heel was founded in Chicago, Illinois in late 1995 by Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A., OHNE, Peach of Immortality, Pussy Galore, Boat Of, etc.), Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, Weasel Walter Quartet, Lake of Dracula, TLASILA 2, Hatewave, Strawberry, Vanilla, etc.), and James Marlon Magas (Magas, Lake of Dracula, Couch, The Many Moods of Marlon Magas, etc.).
Joining the no-everything troika were Azita Youseffi (Scissor Girls, Bride of NoNo, Azita, etc.), Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth), Jodi McCann (Monotrona, Duotron, Math, etc.), Chuck Falzone and Bill Pisarri (of the mid-90s incarnation of the Luttenbachers), Mike Green (Boat Of, Wyfe, The Fans, Her Hair Jelly, etc.), and Nandor Nevai (_, The Restaurants, other nefarious aggregations). Everyone involved was/is insanely ambitious and/or ambitiously insane.
They recorded one radio session (at WZRD-FM), performed one live performance (at the Magnatroid, New Year's Eve '95), and spent three months obsessively recording, mixing, and remixing The Family's Hot Daughter, an album that was to have been issued by the storied Skin Graft imprint. When that label lost an important domestic distribution deal, funding for the MHH collection was lost, and the project was shelved.
Tiny noise indie B.Sides released the lone Miss High Heel radio session as Split Wax Cylinder (insc: "Beast 661") in 1998, but the antic tone of the recordings ultimately displeased the group's principals. (Goofing around on a suburban Chicago FM outlet in the middle of a blizzard was one thing, but as the MHH album represented antipodal orders of disquiet and revulsion, profound dissatisfaction with the B.Sides disc was predictable.)
Eleven years passed. The original mixes, long vouchsafed within Tom Smith's personal archive, were finally unearthed in 2006. Graham Moore of Blossoming Noise was within earshot, and a deal was quickly struck. The Family's Hot Daughter is scheduled to sneak out of her room and go on a goddamned wild-eyed slaughter spree later in 2007!
Miss High Heel:
James Marlon Magas: voice; Weasel Walter: drums, sax; Azita Youseffi: synthesizer; Jim O'Rourke: bass guitar, trumpet, synthesizer; Jodie McCann: voice; Chuck Falzone: bass guitar (live only); Bill Pisarri: clarinet, bass guitar (studio only); Nandor Nevai: voice; Mike Green: compere, hermeneutics; Tom Smith: voice, black metal tape edits, mix, production.

01.13.2007, 05:50 AM	#1
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,928	http://www.myspace.com/misshighheel Miss High Heel was founded in Chicago, Illinois in late 1995 by Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in L.A., OHNE, Peach of Immortality, Pussy Galore, Boat Of, etc.), Weasel Walter (Flying Luttenbachers, Weasel Walter Quartet, Lake of Dracula, TLASILA 2, Hatewave, Strawberry, Vanilla, etc.), and James Marlon Magas (Magas, Lake of Dracula, Couch, The Many Moods of Marlon Magas, etc.). Joining the no-everything troika were Azita Youseffi (Scissor Girls, Bride of NoNo, Azita, etc.), Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth), Jodi McCann (Monotrona, Duotron, Math, etc.), Chuck Falzone and Bill Pisarri (of the mid-90s incarnation of the Luttenbachers), Mike Green (Boat Of, Wyfe, The Fans, Her Hair Jelly, etc.), and Nandor Nevai (_, The Restaurants, other nefarious aggregations). Everyone involved was/is insanely ambitious and/or ambitiously insane. They recorded one radio session (at WZRD-FM), performed one live performance (at the Magnatroid, New Year's Eve '95), and spent three months obsessively recording, mixing, and remixing The Family's Hot Daughter, an album that was to have been issued by the storied Skin Graft imprint. When that label lost an important domestic distribution deal, funding for the MHH collection was lost, and the project was shelved. Tiny noise indie B.Sides released the lone Miss High Heel radio session as Split Wax Cylinder (insc: "Beast 661") in 1998, but the antic tone of the recordings ultimately displeased the group's principals. (Goofing around on a suburban Chicago FM outlet in the middle of a blizzard was one thing, but as the MHH album represented antipodal orders of disquiet and revulsion, profound dissatisfaction with the B.Sides disc was predictable.) Eleven years passed. The original mixes, long vouchsafed within Tom Smith's personal archive, were finally unearthed in 2006. Graham Moore of Blossoming Noise was within earshot, and a deal was quickly struck. The Family's Hot Daughter is scheduled to sneak out of her room and go on a goddamned wild-eyed slaughter spree later in 2007! Miss High Heel: James Marlon Magas: voice; Weasel Walter: drums, sax; Azita Youseffi: synthesizer; Jim O'Rourke: bass guitar, trumpet, synthesizer; Jodie McCann: voice; Chuck Falzone: bass guitar (live only); Bill Pisarri: clarinet, bass guitar (studio only); Nandor Nevai: voice; Mike Green: compere, hermeneutics; Tom Smith: voice, black metal tape edits, mix, production.
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