interview: Shilpa Ray
Tune into WMSE as DJ Rich Mars talks with New Jersey x New York musician, Shilpa Ray, in advance of her show at Company Brewing on Thursday, May 24th with Milwaukee’s Red Stuff and Amanda Huff. Shilpa Ray’s newest EP, Nihilism, is out on Northern Spy Records.
“Shilpa Ray is a wailing, fire breathing Cyclops. She tornadoes everything in her path: small towns, big cities, and children’s dreams.
“Shilpa Ray is, through no fault of her own, one of our unsung great artists. Having made her bones with the gothic Sturm und Drang of Beat The Devil and moving forward to the blues erosion of “…and The Happy Hookers” Shilpa Ray has been, armed only with an incomparable voice and harmonium haunted by the ghosts of dead lovers, perpetually crying in the wind, hoisting both middle fingers in the general direction of god. It’s not a life a wise man would choose. But, again, what can you do?”