Wednesday, December 28, 2011
We wrote the following blog draft on May 27, 2007 about Ms. Ema prior to her playing one of our 10th Anniversary shows at Mr. T's Bowl. We never posted it:
We don't know much but we know Ema and the Ghosts is a star in the making.
Our first encounter with this young lady was during her short-lived stint with Artichoke, a band known for its innovative songcraft but maybe not-so-innovative career choices... They kicked her out. We won't get into the unfortunate details of the story, but we will say some things were just meant to be. Especially since Ema is just too talented to be a side player in a band who can't appreciate a good thing when they see it.
And there's just too many good things we see about this girl. She has an undeniable giddy charm about her, something that is as pleasant to behold as it is to hear her sing those Peggy Lee-meets-Regina Spektor quirky songs. Armed with just a ukelele for most of her performance, she owns any spotlight within a 100-mile radius of wherever she takes a stage. Now if we can just convince her to do music full-time we'd love her forever...
Ema and the Ghosts perform at la-underground's 10 year anniversary show on 6/12 at Mr. T's Bowl and at the Silverlake Lounge on 6/14.
It's nice to reread this and see that after four years absolutely nothing has changed in our view of this talented, young lady. In fact, the only thing that has changed is that she's four years older (and wiser) and is looking to give this music stuff a go, upgrading her Ema and the Ghosts one-woman act to the all-girl band Ema and Her Lady Parts (featuring members of The Monolators, Moses Campbell, and C-Horse). And after checking out some early shows and demo recordings, we must say that Her Lady Parts have our full and utmost attention. Songs are all in Ema's trademark style of quirky, whimsical, and just plain cute but our favorite "Seafoam" (as seen below from the band's debut show at The Smell) is going to make Phil Spector wish he never went batshit crazy just so he could behind the console on that gem of a song.
The last time we did a show with Ema was last year's New Year's show when we all thought she was leaving Los Angeles for some other non-significant part of the world. Lucky for us, she stayed and is doing her umpteenth la-underground show on 1/6 at pehrspace -- but first with all Her Lady Parts (ok, no more lady parts puns... for now).
Ema and Her Lady Parts perform 1/6 at pehrspace. New record coming soon. Until then go and download all of Ema and the Ghosts EPs for free.
EMA AND HER LADY PARTS:
