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A Little Friction is Amy
Tobin and Kevin
Carnes. He plays drums. She sings. She writes.
He writes. He triggers lots of other sounds. She plays piano.
Together, they make music and tell stories.
Inspired by Tobin’s experiments with
singing a cappella in bars, theatres, and bathhouses, plus
Carnes’ experience playing with scores of electronic,
jazz, and rock bands, A Little Friction mixes it up with
lush arrangements, drama, and collisions between musical
genres.
It's electronic cabaret rock, driven by Tobin's
un-ladylike, to-the-point lyrics and big emotional voice.
Live, A Little Friction has been compared to Lucy and Desi,
Joni Mitchell, and musical theatre, just to confuse you.
The band's fans say it best: "utterly sexy and captivating,"
"sophisticated," "NEW."
Musical collaborators since 1999, A Little
Friction became official in 2005, when Carnes and Tobin
went into the studio (and the kitchen, and the TV room,
and the bedroom) to arrange the songs for their debut album,
When sparks fly.
The CD follows up 4 Choices, the
2003 EP also produced by Tobin and Carnes. That recording
featured songs from Tobin’s cabaret rock opera The
Esther Show, which has played to sold-out crowds
in San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles since
2002. The SF Weekly said The Esther Show, “created
by golden-throated local singer/writer Amy Tobin, is sly,
adult, and refreshingly irreverent.”
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Bios:
Kevin Carnes is a drummer, percussionist, composer, and
producer who has played music ranging from jazz to punk
rock for more than 20 years. Carnes, “widely acknowledged
as the best drummer in San Francisco,” (LA Weekly)
founded several ground-breaking bands, including the political
punk-noise band The Beatnigs and the broun
fellinis, the jazz-roots trio bands that helped to create
San Francisco’s acid jazz scene.He has performed and
recorded with George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars, world
music DJ Cheb i Sabbah, rock band Storm and Her Dirty Mouth,
and electronica-driven Soulstice, as well as Consolidated,
Little White Radio, UAF, Post Junk Trio, Eric McFadden,
Tyler Stone and Sutro, Shaunna Hall of 4 Non Blondes, and
Radioactive of Spearhead fame. Other projects include releasing
a drum sampler, creating and remixing music for commercials
and websites, and acting for both theatre and television.
Amy Tobin has spent nine years singing, writing,
and playing in San Francisco clubs and theatres, performing
in many configurations - lo-fi, hi-fi, all alone, with a
six-piece band, with a sampler, acoustic, electronic, as
rock and as theatre. She created and performs The Esther
Show, a cabaret rock opera and modern interpretation
of the biblical Book of Esther, which has played on an annual
basis since 2002 in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and San
Francisco. She was also a member of the San Francisco band
The Beanweevils, as well as the intercultural spoken-word
collective Dhaia Tribe, and she co-wrote the musical
Lilith in 1996.
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