music and tales
Just fyi, i finished the music for the first act last night. But since i won’t be posting anything on that today, let’s take a look at another awesome Dark Cabaret band. Birdeatsbaby is self described as alt-classical-prog-punks, the description […]
Let’s talk design for a moment. As far the show goes, the set and costume design is not in my area of expertise, and i will be leaving it to the professionals. I hope to give a juicy story and […]
Vermillion Lies is a sister act made up of Zoe and Kim Boekbinder. They, to quote, “have spent their lives honing their craft at clown boot camp and the local dump, where they found their favorite instruments like toy piano, […]
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 […]