Photo Credit: Krys Fox
Portland, OR: On December 2, Brooklyn, NY-based musical duo Charming Disaster will bring their unique style of “goth-folk” to Mississippi Pizza Pub’s Atlantis Lounge, sharing the bill with spooky rockers Strange & the Familiars and accordion diva Jet Black Pearl. Charming Disaster are touring behind their newly released album, Super Natural History. Advance tickets are available at mississippipizza.com.
“Charming Disaster are unusual, spooky, wickedly talented, and completely unafraid to delve deep into the underworld in exploration of all things lurking in the dark…they have a knack for making the macabre fun.” –Mixed Alternative
With their signature ukulele, guitar, foot percussion, and interlocking vocal harmonies, Charming Disaster perform playfully dark original songs inspired by death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Channeling the macabre humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they explore dark subjects with a whimsically macabre sensibility. The duo’s interactive, theatrical performances are participatory experiences that are part concert, part fortune-telling ritual, and part vaudeville show.
“The kind of soundtrack you’d expect to find on a 1930s cartoon about a Prohibition-era Voodoo funeral…just be careful if they offer you a drink.” –Goldmine Magazine
Charming Disaster, formed in 2012 by singer/songwriters Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris, has been featured on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, opened for legendary cello-rock ensemble Rasputina, goth icon Voltaire, and punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, and captivated audiences across the United States at bars, clubs, theaters, festivals, museums, and the occasional historic cemetery. Their most recent album, the critically acclaimed Super Natural History, is a musical cabinet of curiosities, featuring songs inspired by both the natural world and the metaphysical realm, exploring subjects like witchcraft, monsters, and the underworld alongside bats, plants, poisons, pigments, and parasites.
“Charming Disaster sound like the music that Pugsley and Wednesday Addams might have made after listening to the Decemberists, Squeeze and some Chopin.” –Yes! Weekly
Show Info:
What: Strange & The Familiars + Charming Disaster + Jet Black Pearl
When: Saturday, December 2, 7pm doors / 8pm show
Where: Mississippi Pizza Pub / Atlantis Lounge, 3552 N. Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 97227
Venue website: mississippipizza.com
Artist website: charmingdisaster.com
Tickets: https://www.simpletix.com/e/strange-the-familiars-charming-disaster-je-tickets-149043
Admission: $12 advance / $15 at the door
BAND LINKS
Website: www.charmingdisaster.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/charmingdisaster
Instagram: http://instagram.com/charmingdisasterband
YouTube: http://youtube.com/charmingdisasterband
Bandcamp: http://charmingdisaster.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1RjkfhamohczSXjFy5WcZh
