Who the hell is the Space Lady? Is she an outsider; in terms of oddballs, the real thing? I didn't know who she was an hour ago and after hearing her and reading a bio I'm kind of thinking that she wasn't all that aware of how unusual she seemed to "normal" people. But she was aware enough to know that people watching buskers like buskers who do songs that the recognize, and if they like buskers they're more likely to toss some loose change in the hat. She's done more than a few covers. "Ballroom Blitz", "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night", "Across the Universe", "Born To Be Wild", "Fly Like An Eagle", you know, heavy on the shit sounds of the seventies. Sell out.
What's she sound like? Picture, if you will, a woman with the low energy delivery of Cat Power, armed with a Casio keyboard more drone than something like Wesley Willis's recycled rhythms. She wears novel head gear, though nowhere near Sun Ra's fanciful lids. But at the end of the day she's that square peg that there just aren't enough of. What the hell: viva the Space Lady. Let it fly sister.
The Space Lady - Ghost Riders In the Sky mp3 at Art Decade
The Space Lady - Ballroom Blitz (streaming) at Bandcamp
The Space Lady - Radar Love (streaming) at Bandcamp
Visit:
The Space Lady In Her Own Words at Red Bull Academy
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