Haale, Saturday 29 March at Kinetic Playground

Haale is one of those performers I missed seeing last year when she played Chicago last year during the World Music Festival. I even missed her free performance at Borders on Broadway, by a few minutes. I bought her two eps right there because I liked what I read about her in the Reader. I heard the CDs in the car while on the way home and it hurt that I could not see her play, because I had to be at work. Her music would sound great in Nocturna in a set that includes Dead Can Dance, Rhea's Obsession, Vas, Hungry Lucy, This Ascension..and so on. This is just the artist the goth crowd should just claim right there. Goth culture is not a scene that Haale is deliberately playing for. It's a crowd that would truely appreciate her music. For those of you goths that miss dancing to that one long 10 minute song from Dead Can Dance. This girl Haale is for you. Do you guys miss hearing Monica Richards sing anything from Anwyn Beneath The Waves. Ms Haale is for you. She is Iranian and a New Yorker I believe. I think she once described her music as sufi psychedelic rock. That is the text that convinced me to see her. Sufi's know their music and I've been listening to some before I knew of Haale. She does have her Sufi music down. She rocks like PJ Harvey. The two eps , one is called "Paratrooper", the other I just forgot, have the impact of two full CD's. They don't feel like singles, with just one song worth hearing. There are at least 3 songs on each ep that I like. The new full CD that she is touring for "No Ceiling" I can not give enough praise for. Off the top of my head I like "Off Duty Fortune Teller'. There is something about that song that reminds me of Aimee Mann. It strikes me that she chose to highlight this fortune teller's off- time. Away from all the materials that identify her duty, she still has this power. The song goes that she needs nothing but what's inside. The way the song was put together, everything reminded me of Aimee Mann....a very good thing. Writing this blog for the moment still feels like I'm writing to myself, but for those that do read....Go SEE Haale!!!
Zig
P.S.
There are lots of youtube coverage on her already, go do some research.