Christopher Shillock Tabatha Predovich
He's called the underground poet laureate of downtown Minneapolis. She is an internationally starring avant-garde singer/songwriter. With his gritty, street-wise verse and her dark, lush voice, they are forging , words and music that meld ancient Alexandria and medieval Paris with Neo-Platonism and baseball in a lyrical crucible fired by love and war and the mystical vision - with Rich Patterson on guitar, David Gullickson on drums.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
- an improvisational unit that performed with a rotating line-up of musicians. She was recruited by the English band, Elysium and relocated to London in 1993. She wrote, recorded and toured with the band for 3 years, taking them from the lofty realms of ethereal pop to a provocative world of post-modern techno-funk.
spoken word.
Your musical influences
Siouxsie & the Banshees, Throbbing Gristle, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen. Emma Goldman, Villon, Blake, Timbuktu, Heathen, Eddie and the Cruisers, Kavafis, Lawrence Durrell, Django, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa and Stravinsky.
