Edie Sedgwick
Biography
Edie composes and performs all of the instruments on his/her albums. However, the live set features collaborations with musicians such as Melissa Quinley (Soccer team), Chad Molter (Faraquet, Medications), Jason Hutto (Aquarium), Ben Azzara (The Capitol City Dusters), Amy Farina (The Evens) and more. Edie will be touring with some of the aforementioned artists in the United States in November 2008.
EXCERPT OF CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED AT DISCHORD RECORDS WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE May 15, 2008:
"Dear Dischord Records:
From the results of a painstaking Google search, I recently learned that you release music by popular, independent, forward-thinking rock-and-roll musicians. I myself am a popular, independent, forward-thinking rock-and-roll musician. Thus, I write to insist that you release my third full-length album, Things Are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer, as soon as possible.
As you may be aware, my aesthetic coalesced at the end of the 20th century when I discovered that I am the transgendered reincarnation of Andy Warhol Superstar Edith Minturn Sedgwick (1943-1971). Recognizing that my unusual birthright would bring notoriety and financial gain, I began producing pamphlets, video installations, haikus, short lectures, comedy routines, blogs, long-form non-fiction essays, and (of course) music about mass media and the American culture of celebrity. I released my first full-length record, [TITLE REDACTED], on [LABEL REDACTED] Records in 2000. My sophomore effort, [TITLE REDACTED] on [LABEL REDACTED] Records in 2005, came fast on my first record's heels. Between albums, I have laid my soul bare for audiences who have paid to see and hear my art in nightclubs, on the campuses of colleges and universities, and on the European continent. Risking humiliation, arrest, and deportation, I have delivered my singular creative vision - Fela Kuti meets Screaming Jay Hawkins meets the Ol' Dirty Bastard at a Warhol exhibition - to the world. I have broken 1,000 hearts, and earned millions. I call upon you now to recognize the genius of Things Are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer and offer the opportunity to share the artistic and financial profits from this masterwork's immediate release.
According to Wikipedia, you have built an unimpeachable catalogue around intellectual honesty, integrity in business affairs, and a do-it-yourself ethic. Though I myself am not honest, lack integrity, and am reluctant to 'do things myself', I trust you will overlook these alleged shortcomings in the name of my new record's undeniable artistry, sheer danceability, and overwhelming panache. In this cold world, great men must sometimes call upon great men in the name of a great cause. Today, as Winston Churchill called upon Franklin Delano Roosevelt; as Fidel Castro called upon Che Guevara; and as Clint Eastwood called upon Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby, I, Edie Sedgwick, call upon you, Dischord Records, in the name of Things Are Getting Sinister and Sinisterer.
I eagerly await your reply.
Yours in struggle,
Edie Sedgwick