Mute Socialite is: Moe! Staiano: Drums, Percussive guitar, Guitar; Ava Mendoza: Guitar; Alee Karim: Bass, Shayna Dunkleman: DrumsDrummer/percussionist Moe! Staiano had always wanted to have a band of his own. Finding suitable candidates in the young talents of guitarist Ava Mendoza and bassist Alee Karim, together they began in 2006 to create bizarre instrumental fleshings-out of Moe!'s compositional frameworks as Mute Socialite. In January of 2007, 2nd drummer Shayna Dunkleman joined the ran...
Mute Socialite is: Moe! Staiano: Drums, Percussive guitar, Guitar; Ava Mendoza: Guitar; Alee Karim: Bass, Shayna Dunkleman: DrumsDrummer/percussionist Moe! Staiano had always wanted to have a band of his own. Finding suitable candidates in the young talents of guitarist Ava Mendoza and bassist Alee Karim, together they began in 2006 to create bizarre instrumental fleshings-out of Moe!'s compositional frameworks as Mute Socialite. In January of 2007, 2nd drummer Shayna Dunkleman joined the ranks and augmented the volume and overall goodness. Mute Socialite gives the diverse backgrounds of its players free rein--Moe!'s driving post-punk drumming and percussion guitar, Ava's free jazz sensibility and mangled country and black metal riffage, Alee's sub-bass, grinding harmonic interplay, and Shayna's prismatic sense of percussive dynamics. Jolting, hocketing rhythms, atonal surf riffs, and blackened salsa grooves combine to create a singular brutal, polyrhythmic spasmathon. A primordial beastie unleashed on the world in either fury or love! As of September 2007, we have finished recording our first full-length album, tentatively titled ‘More Popular Than Presidents and Generals,’ samples from which can be heard above. Mixing and mastering are soon to follow but we are still seeking potential outlets for its CD/LP release. Any interested parties/labels/distributors may contact us here or at mutesocialite@gmail.com.
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