Karin Tatoyan

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Sep 7 2008 7:45P

Tangier Los Feliz, California

 

Sep 20 2008 8:30P

EchoPlex Echo Park, California

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About kárin tatoyan

 

Karin Tatoyan came to life in a small Alabama town. She comes from a long line of Syrian-Armenian actors, musicians & puppeteers. The first years of her life she spent traipsing through the woods and cornfields of Indiana. In fifth grade she suffered the trauma of moving to Los Angeles. Classically trained since the age of seven, Karin taught herself how to play guitar at fifteen, and began using her musicianship to channel the poems of her life. Karin is a field of opposites - a private, demur composer of highly sexual and passionate songs. She possesses a tiny stature with a voice the size of the North Atlantic. She writes songs bursting with joy, yearning, wasted hope, and nostalgia for a lost childhood. They seem to skip to their own time like playful children juxtaposing the ugly and the beautiful until they're a new form unto their own.

 

At only twenty-four, Karin is a veteran of the Los Angeles acoustic scene. She recently removed herself from its strummy environs to concoct the more dynamic and driving electronic sound characteristic of her debut. For her live performances, she has partnered with the multi-instrumentalist The One Second Time Machine as well as a couple classical musicians to create a theatrical, mind-bending act that stands head and shoulders above standard club fare. Think an Armenian-American Björk meets Ziggy Stardust. It's that great and ambitious. The sonic rebirth of this new artist will be a sight to behold.