Black Flamingo
'Rethinking the River with a Gothic love song,’

There are reports of sounds echoing off the banks of the concrete channel the L.A. River
flows through on it’s fixed course. Described by residents as a hymn of quiet notes, a vapor
sometimes like that of a tiger, or a soft flutter of a pinned butterfly beating it’s wings against the
wall. These sounds seem to be traveling with a velocity different from that of other sound
waves, due to the huge amount of energy that they contain. A harmony with a warning, dusted
with a pretty pain.

Traveling through their waves, these sounds have been collecting in the spaces between
us, where reason ends and sins are saving. They have been stealing the swans’ songs, shining on
in the dark, and again giving our skulls a chance of peace, the notes cutting through the cartilage
down to a clean marrow core, leaving a bone with only its pure stone honesty.

There is a spell upon the L.A. River. Cast into our ears, a lullaby to give a voice to
secrets, a beet for the forgotten, a time to know the history of just one particular tear. This is it’s
story. One night, beneath a visiting moon, two witches moved in. The L.A.River is where they
now call home, balancing between the hunted and the hauntings. The girls are from an afterlife
of beauty. They are responsible for the sounds we have been hearing, conducting the love we
have been making. No one asked for names, the addiction to their noise has begun. A tattoo
across both witches' chests, BLACK FLAMINGO, is all.

BLACK FLAMINGO inked into hearts of the unknown. Where they came from, Jesus or
the most modern hover craft ever built, does not matter - they are here to stay. Just like Bashful,
Sleepy, Dopey, and the Third Monkey - ‘Speak Evil'-we happily accepted our fate and let
BLACK FLAMINGO play on.


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We are Tropical Goth.

Camerin Kelly of LANTVRN.  From the mountains of Northern California.  Now residing in Los Angeles.  Studying terminator drone malfunction at Caltech and carrying freedom as a two edged sword.

LANTVRN

"Like Syd Barrett through some 90's grunge filter" - Tony Presedo (Tee Pee Records Founder)

"Raw power that you don't find anymore." - (Joe Foster, Creation Records, Poppydisk)

"Killer, the best band in Los Angeles today"  - Dave D former manager of The Brian Jonestown Massacre

LANTVRN became real when I recorded a demo called “Danger Is Needed Sometimes”. This chaotically troubled lady who lived with Dave D (Brian Jonestown Massacre’s ex manager) had been asking about my music. I gave it to her and told her I wrote it for her. She didn’t believe me, but later that night she called me and was ecstatic. “Wait, did you really write this song about me, were you joking?” I said “I don’t joke about love”. She booked our ﬁrst show at Three Clubs in Hollywood opening for Jason Simon (Dead Meadow).

Q. How do you describe LANTVRN´ sounds?

TD: It's Folklore. Ha. We have a hard time describing Lantvrn but we can give you a list of nouns to describe it. it's definitely droney, moody, heavy and chaotic at times and also spooky, melodic and very minimalist at other times. They're songs to listen to rather than have on in the background.  


HIDDEN DOOR EP: May 12th 2015

LANTVRN:
Camerin Kelly: vocals and guitar
Alex Quinn: drums


WEB SITES:
lantvrn.bandcamp.com




BOOKING/LABEL INFO: 
Lantvrn@gmail.com
(323)533.0652

HI-RES PHOTOS:



Put your hands over your eyes and feel me touch your neck with the sharp tip of a Knife.

Now working as STUDDED LEFT.  Check it out: https://studdedleft.bandcamp.com/album/studded-lefts-western-groove


"Doing Easy" lp
https://indianjewelry.bandcamp.com

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