music and tales
I sit here in a tine old, village house in the mountains of southern Serbia madly composing away. My wife has taken our beautiful little toddler to Belgrade in order for me to work uninterupted. I rise each morning, eat, […]
Annabel McAlistair: As the 3rd song opens, we are in Annabel’s private lab, where she is about to attempt to animate a mannequin construct. Who is she? Annabel definitely has the neurotic (mad) scientist thing going on. But this is […]
Let’s have a little Dresden Dolls in our day, shall we? A great live recording, here’s the song Sex Changes. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV0hAA_VdRE] Self described as Brechtian Punk Cabaret, the duo of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione came up with the description out of […]
After deciding on a steampunk opera, i had the small issue of coming up with a plot. A friend was visiting from the states and together we went to Belgrade for a few days. While there i saw a book […]
I am starting this blog in order to declare my intention to make a Steampunk Opera and to document the process. Hi. My name is Paul Shapera and I make music under the name Mocha Lab. I will be posting […]