helo this
section of the website for the musical group health&beauty is for
members of the press or venue/promoter folks to get some photos and
text and such. here is a litle place where some things about health&beauty
get said that may be fit for consumption by a person who hasn't been
paying attention to health&beauty for too long, so they can kind
of get a rough idea of what it is he/we is/are up to in a general sense,
like in a 2-year plan kind of sense, whereas someone who wanted to know
that in a more specific sense as in like 'what are you up to right
now' might go to the news page for just
one example. ok have fun i hope you like the text and the album comver!
cover
of It Was Almost Certainly a Small Child [IWACaSC]
by Jordan Paul De Santo Mitchell
photos
by chris noonan
Health&Beauty
brian j sulpizio
nick morrison
dan siakel
Health&Beauty
dan siakel
brian j sulpizio
nick morrison
Health&Beauty
brian j sulpizio
Health&Beauty
dan siakel
brian j sulpizio
Health&Beauty
brian j sulpizio
nick morrison
press
release text by Adam Starr Weg / BJS (download
word doc)
Health&Beauty
is a Chicago power trio of considerable stylistic range & ambition.
Begun in 2004 & steered throughout by Brian J Sulpizio's songwriting
& arrangements, the ensemble passed through various formations before
reaching its current order featuring the caring musicianship of Dan
Siakel on drums and Nick Morrison on bass, who together accompany Sulpizio's
guitar & voice. The melodies themselves tend toward inflicted lullaby,
reaching for languor mid meant pain only to arrive on refrains that
nod austerely at popular form—yet the songs end up ancillary to
the occasion for the group, which works through improvised approaches
toward a prized component of deliberation, a kind of ever compounding
cause for some energy.
Taken in part, the band can evoke the frenetic, transcendental angst
of Sonny Sharrock, the deliberate & variant sharp noise of Derek
Bailey, the hitting blues-rock of JSBX and drive of Cheetah Chrome,
the entrancing sustain of Sunn 0))), the compositional dexterity of
the Dirty Projectors, the ephemera & pulse of the Sea and Cake,
& the harmonic tendencies of the Smashing Pumpkins, but the show
really moves through these things.
Health&Beauty has played and headlined venues all around Chicago
like the old Fireside Bowl, the Subterranean, the Empty Bottle, the
Metro, the Double Door, the Hideout. It has also traveled to Cincinnati,
Minneapolis, Bloomington and St Louis once or twice. It has a song called
Too Boring which is set to appear on the DVD extras to the movie Good
Dick. It has another song called King of Interpol that is featured in
the documentary Thax, about Thax Douglas, Chicago’s rock&roll
poet, who has read a poem called Health&Beauty for Health&Beauty
on a number of occasions. It was picked as one of the Illinois Entertainer’s
“Top Ten” of 2004. It has a song called Dust that was played
regularly on Q101’s local show, which also accompanies an elaborately
animated short film made by Ryan William Sigg of Portland, Oregon.
Health&Beauty is currently available for performances between Chicago
and the north-east coast of the USA from October 3 – 19, 2008.
This marks the first in a series of tours behind the recently released
It Was Almost Certainly a Small Child (included) and the upcoming The
Cottonwood Leaf, Fallen, Likens to a Rat Having Died.
for
booking, comprehensive recorded music, and any other concerns, please
e.mail
healthandbeauty@indiecred.com
also see myspace
