Bleeding Fields
BLEEDING FIELDS
FEMALE TRANSATLANTIC DARK WAVE DUO
Blancah Black
Blancah Black was raised in Los Angeles, USA on Classical and Jazz ballads, as the phonograph had been around for some time and music was a big part of family life.
She was also drawn to Opera such as La Bohème and the schmalz of Tony Perkins and Doris Day played innumerable times on Mama’s turntable.
Inspired by these masterpieces, she acquired a taste for the tragic at an early age. She took up the ukulele and treholipee at age 8 and wrote her first song, “Once There was a Horse and His Name was Clop.”
Suddenly one day there was punk and by this time she had been playing electric guitar for several years. Blancah Black woke up one morning in Santa Cruz, CA, and with Maryjean Shaffer started HoLY SIstERs of the GAga DaDA
She was is definitely in too many bands:
Fascion
Vulneraries
The Philosophers
Ovaryaction
Go Go to Go
Venus Envy
Feathered Edge
The Eddie Gale Ensemble
Dangerous Mother
Ololo
bleeding fields
Instruments Played:
Voice, Language, Noise, Aguitar, Eguitar, Electronics, Soprano Saxophone, Manmade Objects, Natural World Objects, Ableton.
Several hundred songs later she’s still at it...
The girl can’t help it.
Chrissie Caulfield
Chrissie Caulfield was born at a very young age and was obviously going to be a musician as she started playing Beatles songs on an out-of-tune guitar before she was 5. Oh actually no, everyone did that. Her musical career took off when she discovered that with sufficient amplification and and inordinate amount of effects pedals, a violin could actually make interesting noises without all that tedious messing about with conservatoire training.
During a brief spell touring she learned the value of 'swagging' alcohol off the band's rider, how to be "not entirely useless" at supermariokart, and just how big Poland actually is. Her time with the ill-fated band Catscans featured headlining performances in obscure Leeds pubs with audiences that sometimes even turned up.
Her highest accolade was being described, in 2011, as "…the first person ever to play on one of my albums who is not from Rushden". Since then her career has not looked back, or forward, or indeed sideways.
Chrissie also plays violin for dark ambient band Helicopter Quartet & Harrogate Philharmonic Orchestra, and synthesizers for synth modernists CSMA as well as both for her own projects. She has played sessions for many other people including Crippled Black Phoenix, Matt Stevens
and Se Delan.