Cari Palazollo is from Austin, TX and part of Belaire along with her twin sister Christa and Voxtrot's Matt Simon and Jason Chronis. She has a solo project called Fancy Feast, yup, just like the cat food. Go ahead and google "Fancy Feast" and you'll see many results for the food instead of her. She's also been part of other bands such as Fozlur, Arkay, and Flashlight Fiction.
Fancy Feast has released one EP titled Nagasaki Hiroshima Raver Ghost Dance Remixxxx, which features the track below, "Whatcha Need Girl", and is worth picking up since it packs so much awesome into six songs. There are also two tracks available for your listening pleasure over at Judah Records' audio page that were taken from this EP. She also has a self-released album of 20 tracks, which includes the songs from the EP. As of right now, the only way to purchase the cd is by sending her a message through Belaire's MySpace page or emailing her (belairemusic [at] gmail.com).
Belaire will be releasing their debut LP, Exploding / Impacting, sometime in July. But if that seems too far away to satisfy your ears, they have a self-titled EP available that comes with hand-crafted cd cover art and a 7" vinyl, Haunted Castle, featuring 4 tracks with a ghouly, spooky, Halloween theme.
In addition to the EPs, Belaire and Fancy Feast were part of the Kanye West tribute album, Indie Translations of The College Dropout. Belaire covered "Through the Wire"; the song that launched Kanye's rapping career and featured samples from Aretha Franklin's "Through the Fire", but this version is far from that. It's free of samples and full of synths and keyboard action. Fancy Feast covered the final track, appropriately titled "Last Call". It's a synth-filled, female-vocaled version sans the Jay-Z intro and Kanye's lengthy story.
And Cari was also in a band called Fozlur which consisted of 5 members. I couldn't find much information about the band since their bio consists of an odd story about the Fozlur Institute and not them in general, but they do have a website and their releases are freely available for downloading.
As for the other members of Belaire...
Christa Palazzolo is also a painter from Queens, NY and has had exhibitions at galleries in Texas as well as New York. Her and Cari were part of the band Arkay along with Richard Kentopp. He's in a "band" called Books Died On and the EPs Summer and Fall and Love Me, Hate Me feature vocals by Christa, which can be streamed on Last.fm. I put "band" in quotation marks because Books Died On isn't exactly a band; it's basically him and other members who he feels like playing with, which includes Cari and Christa. Cari and Richard were part of an instrumental band called Flashlight Fiction with their friend Reed Chapman. They created two albums/EPs; the first was self-titled and the second was called The Production Cycle and both releases contained seven tracks and are available from Judah Records.
And the guys from Voxtrot are set to release their self-titled debut album on May 22 featuring all new songs. So if you have their other releases, you'll be happy to hear that there won't be any re-recorded versions of those songs.
Since I compacted so much info up there, here's a list of Belaire's projects/bands:
Cari Palazzolo - Fancy Feast, Belaire, Flashlight Fiction, Arkay, Fozlur
Christa Palazzolo - Belaire, Books Died On
Matt Simon - Belaire, Voxtrot
Jason Chronis - Belaire, Voxtrot
Books Died On: | |||||
Books Died On Summer and Fall EP 2004 |
Books Died On Love Me Hate Me EP 2005 |
(I didn't include the other 2 releases by Books Died On because Christa doesn't appear on them)
Jason :: Fancy Feast | Belaire | Voxtrot | Arkay | Flashlight Fiction | Fozlur | Books Died On | KVRX | Christa Palazzolo
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