Madeline Tasquin + Ama Trio at The Royal Room

Madeline Tasquin
6:00 pm
Singing in both English and French, Canadian-Californian Madeline Tasquin’s songs dip from jazz-tinged folk to odd-meter soul, to twisted pop ballad and delicately dark fairy-tale. Raised in Northern British Columbia by her opera singer mother and Austrian gold-miner father, Tasquin began playing the piano as soon as she could reach the keys and developed an acute sense of melody and harmony by singing on long car trips with her mother and two younger sisters. In her teenagehood, Primus and Mr.Bungle played on repeat alongside Rachmaninoff, Satie and Chopin. She returned to her musical roots through an unexpected relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, after completing a degree in Architecture in Sydney Australia. ...

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Madeline Tasquin
6:00 pm
Singing in both English and French, Canadian-Californian Madeline Tasquin’s songs dip from jazz-tinged folk to odd-meter soul, to twisted pop ballad and delicately dark fairy-tale. Raised in Northern British Columbia by her opera singer mother and Austrian gold-miner father, Tasquin began playing the piano as soon as she could reach the keys and developed an acute sense of melody and harmony by singing on long car trips with her mother and two younger sisters. In her teenagehood, Primus and Mr.Bungle played on repeat alongside Rachmaninoff, Satie and Chopin. She returned to her musical roots through an unexpected relocation to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, after completing a degree in Architecture in Sydney Australia.

Since the 2012 release of her EP Another Trip Around the Sun, Madeline has spent her time developing and touring a repertoire that leans closer to soul and blues than the orchestral-pop flavor of her debut recording. In “The Acorn and the Oak,” a romantically wandering melody reminiscent of a Chopin nocturne is woven through a driving blues ballad in compound meter. In “Twinkle Twinkle Little Satellite” she quotes the familiar nursery song melody and then corrupts it in chromatic fashion, resolving into a doo-wop anthem about relativity. The thread that ultimately weaves it all together is a nimble 3-octave voice that adapts gracefully to the musical whims, and her disarmingly big, bold and heart-driven stage presence.
"...a creative tour de force."
—Tony DuShane, [Bandwidth] SF Chronicle
"Her songs are at once delicate and exuberant, misty and adventurous, like a ride in a hot air balloon."
—Oaktown Indie Mayhem
"A sophistication and a range of style that is positively captivating."
—Dirty Impound Music Blog, Top 12 Debuts of 2012
"A creative torrent on the verge of breaking free..."
—Dennis Cook, Jambase.com

Ama Trio
8:00pm
Seattle-based Ama Trio, the "rarely yodeling, always scintillating latin american afro sephardic eastern european gypsy circus chamber band" with multi-talented composer/producer Amy Denio alongside award-winning latin duo Correo Aereo (Madeleine Sosin and Abel Rocha).
Amy Denio: accordion, clarinet, voice; Madeleine Sosin: violin, bombo, maracas, voice; Abel Rocha: guitar, cuatro, voice.

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