"she didn't mean to please you, you've always been a maniac..."
"Hook" by the potent cross generational / genre blended 8 piece New Orleans based Tasche and the Psychedelic Roses is so divergent, so stunning different that if it was a movie it would feel like an amalgam of Michel Gondry, John Waters, Tim Burton and Baz Luhrmann. Key in the transformative trip is primary songwriter and singer Tasche de la Rocha whose jazz dipped singing style feels very 40's to me and exists somewhere between Helen Humes and Valaida Snow (sans trumpet) but more feral, more saturated in ID. Of Hook, Tasche shares:
“This song is based on a dream about astral projecting to a feminist dimension full of departed women laughing and dancing in black. It is about escaping this misogynistic world and becoming music without a body. It’s about being totally free. It’s a feminist song about how powerful women really are and there being no intention of pleasing the male eye.”
The exquisite progressive art rock meets oompah is not only fun but rocks so hard. There are nods to surf punk to psych and stoner rock and at around 1 minute in a musical breakdown that feels like two Brian May's throwing down. There is also a beautifully odd sensibility, a touch of 80's caberet and punk / new wave, artists like Sparks, Oingo Boingo, Human Sexual Response and Siouxsie and the Banshees.
“Hook” is from Tasche and the Psychedelic Roses' upcoming self-titled album dropping 10/21/22.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Forged in the rhythm, joy, and despair of New Orleans, Tasche and the Psychedelic Roses, deploy four part vocal harmonies, grunge guitar riffs, and elements of punk, doo wop, surf, cabaret, and psychedelia, all the while swaying on a thin wire between sweetness and destruction. This unique and powerful sound is evident on their new single, “Hook” (8/26/22) from their upcoming self-titled album due out 10/21/22. Central songwriter Tasche de la Rocha states, “This song is based on a dream about astral projecting to a feminist dimension full of departed women laughing and dancing in black. It is about escaping this misogynistic world and becoming music without a body. It’s about being totally free. It’s a feminist song about how powerful women really are and there being no intention of pleasing the male eye.”
The self-titled album will be released on New Orleans label Sinking City Records. It was recorded at the Studio In The Country in Bogalusa and Wixmix in New Orleans, and is produced by Tasche de la Rocha and Eric Heigle. Heigle, who also engineered the album, is known for his work with Arcade Fire, Dr. John, 79rs Gang, Soul Rebels, and Lost Bayou Ramblers amongst others.
Tasche and the Psychedelic Roses self titled album is about a life of unapologetic transformation. It is about coming into your own power and learning to say goodbye to the things that damage you. It encapsulates life’s ups and downs. A hellish rollercoaster at times, and other times a beautiful dream. It is a feminist album that beleives women and opens a window to the opposite side of a man’s world. It tells the tale of a woman becoming her own person despite everything that slays her day after day. It's about following your golden path no matter how painful it is. It enters her mind and tells her story, the hard blows and rising from the ashes time and time again. It’s about keeping faith in the dark. It’s gutted feelings that we are afraid to feel. It dabbles in trauma but pokes fun at it and evolves into something much stronger than before. It’s a triumph that battles our demons in a blaze of fire.
Throughout the 10 tracks on their self-titled album, band leader and producer, Tasche de la Rocha guides the Psychedelic Roses as they build, burn, and rise again. She is equally at home with the Angels (as her three backup singers are known) coming together in close harmony as she is shredding over waves of distortion as one of three guitarists in the group.
De la Rocha began her music career as a teen busking solo on the streets of New Orleans, and quickly found recognition for her singular voice and guitar sound, even being invited to play solo house concerts for Laurie Anderson and Jennifer Coolidge. On her acclaimed solo debut album, 2016’s Gold Rose, Tasche collaborated with Joseph Faison, out of which grew the full 8-piece band Psychedelic Roses.
Tasche and the Psychedelic Roses rock with a wild abandon and channel a feminist alchemy. It’s a soundtrack for the moment - make out sessions, quiet contemplation, and fighting the demons around us.
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