Shilpa Ray To Release New Record on Northern Spy + Chris Gethard Show Performance
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
photo by Ebru Yildiz
“Shilpa Ray makes music like a dog biting an electric fence.” — The Village Voice
Northern Spy Records announces a two record deal with the extraordinary singer and songwriter Shilpa Ray. The label will release Last Year’s Savage in 2015. The full-length is eleven songs and follows the brilliant four song EP It’s All Self Fellatio released on Nick Cave’s Bad Seed Ltd. imprint.
Album details are forthcoming. In the meantime, Shilpa Ray performs at Cake Shop on December 19th. Details for the show are below along with a link to watch Shilpa Ray’s performance on The Chris Gethard Show in November. Finally, the video for “Nocturnal Emissions”, released in 2012 after a successful Kickstarter campaign, was recently featured in the Impose Week in Pop column.
Fri 12.19 New York, NY — Cake Shop — ticket price TBA — with Wild Bore
Fri 12.19 New York, NY — Cake Shop — ticket price TBA — with Wild Bore
VIDEO: Shilpa Ray on The Chris Gethard Show
Shilpa Ray performed "Johnny Thunders' Fantasy Space Camp" on Season 2, Episode 7 of The Chris Gethard Show. Check out the whole episode (which was really funny) here. Shilpa performs two songs in the episode, both are featured on the forthcoming LP.
VIDEO: Shilpa Ray “Nocturnal Emissions” on Impose
IMPOSE featured “Nocturnal Emissions” in the latest edition of their This Week in Pop column.
“Shilpa Ray‘s forearms bulge with blood when she plays her harmonium. “I have strange musical injuries,” she explains, referring to the blisters on her fingers. “Nocturnal Emissions” is a track off of Shilpa Ray’s upcoming album Last Year’s Savage, to be release on Northern Spy in 2015.”
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