Send Medicine have been a staple of the Los Angeles wider Psychedelic music scene for over a decade. Originally hailing from Toronto, lead singer and primary songwriter Julian Hacquebard formed the LA outfit in 2013. Across their four albums they have reimagined and reinterpreted a plethora of influences ranging from The 60s San Francisco scene, Canterbury Folk, Glam Rock, Proto-Punk as well as Britpop and The Madchester scene. They have opened for the likes of Psych Rock heavyweights The Warlocks and Indie/Electronic staples like Toro Y Moi. Their music has been featured in Lionsgate Produced films, Vice Television and elsewhere. They are known for their heart felt and wild live performances, and have been praised on their sophisticated and original songwriting from publications stretching from Mexico to Germany.
Andrew Pitrone, Andrew the Artist, puts the journey - in journeyman, filling his time with song and art-by-hand. “Many times I find that when I’m doing manual work, poems, melodies, and songs come in,” says Pitrone. His duty to his muse in all artistic facets presents a remarkable examination of an artist who’s very life is the gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork). “Sometimes I feel that I am the medium for the product and the tools are using me.”
Andrew Pitrone’s new album “Mr. Melody” out now on Lolipop Records is not out-of-place in this new folk era but, rather, gently lends a lesson in lineage to a time when creativity abounded in the genre. When the head that expanded the farthest wore the crown. By today’s measure that leaves Andrew Pitrone as one uniquely positioned to revitalize and reinvigorate, at the very least decorate jubilantly, the path to folk and back. Of his songs he says, “I’m not sure who the songs are for, if not for me, [but] I hope they find their way to whomever they were meant for.”
Dr Monika Demmler (PhD) is a Los Angeles based award-winning (2 REMI, Global Music Award) pioneering composer, multi-instrumentalist, djane, speaker, and official voter for the Grammys, who channels her research in Solfeggio frequencies into her musical artworks, blending genres in a new and captivating way: Her latest releases (2022) are Zucker (avant-garde techno-deep house) with Holzkopfkinder and Princess - a feline mix of krautrock, shoegaze, punk. Currently, she is working on her third album Love Bomb as an an antidote to the prevalent global political/social situation.
