The Lovers With My Gay Banjo June 1, 2011

Lovers (celebrated lyricist Berk, synth-programmer and performance artist Kerby Ferris, and sequencer and percussionist Emily Kingan) craft an intimate portrait of female friendship, sexuality, and evolution as an infinite process. The three first encountered in 2002 after Berk's near-fatal van explosion while on tour with an earlier incarnation of the band. Emily Kingan, then on tour with classic Portland feminist hardcore band The Haggard, invited Berk to join the bill. Ferris was their roadie. Years later, Kingan organized a meeting for her two friends and future band-mates in South America, where Berk was travelling and Ferris was living at the time, performing in various experimental electronic projects in Sao Paulo's thriving music scene. The result was sisterly love at second site, and prophetic premonitions of the creative collaborations to come. Says Berk about Lovers presently: "We are like sisters. We are sisters."

Air Waves features Schneits vocals across walking bass lines, big cymbals and brassy guitars. Her songs are universally described as warm, inviting and bittersweet. Nicole's pop reaches great depths, enticing all who hear to stay and listen. Dungeon Dots, came out on November 30th and features Sharon Van Etten, as well as YellowFever's Jennifer Moore. "casually poignant" Gorilla vs. Bear, "a melancholy insta-nostalgia stirring vessel" Impose Magazine,"her songs dig in and don't let go" Luxury Wafers

Singing homespun gay-themed duets and occasional queered-up mash-ups, My Gay Banjo plays songs for you and your kind.

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