Sister City

BOISTER is part of the burgeoning Baltimore music scene that has nurtured the likes of TV On the Radio's Dave Sitek, Celebration, Wilderness, Lungfish, Cass McCombs, Entrance, and More Dogs. Boister (according to Radar magazine) “meshes diverse traditions into something distinctly other, leaving critics groping for adjectives.” The press has been especially enthusiastic in France, where Jade magazine called Boister's 1997 debut disc “the album of the decade” and critics lined up to praise the group's subsequent recordings (Song of the Smoke, Pieces of Milk, and Les Foules en Amour), comparing vocalist/keyboardist Anne Watts to the likes of Edith Piaf and Tom Waits. The band's music has also gotten airplay in the U.S., on radio stations such as WXPN in Philadelphia, and throughout Europe.

Boister is currently promoting its much-anticipated double album, Sister City, the band's most artistically ambitious release to date. Comprised of songs ranging from the eerie, mysterious “Demons Come” to the rambunctious, frenetic “Math Polka,” Boister explores the full range of its influences, including the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Thelonious Monk, and Wilco. Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) says of Sister City: “Really beautiful. It makes me sway.” Three songs from Sister City, in the first month of its release, have been featured on NPR's Morning Edition.

Boister's spirited live shows have quickened pulses up and down the East Coast, and the band has appeared at a variety of venues, including the World Café, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian, Toronto's NXNE Music Festival, and numerous college campuses.

Beyond that, Boister's silent film scores have won widespread praise from critics such as Roger Ebert and The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday. Boister has premiered original scores at the Maryland and Virginia Film Festivals and been commissioned for work by the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

We hope you'll give the new disc a listen and help spread the word. Call 410-330-4339 for more information and don't forget to visit www.boister.net for news, press, photos, and music.
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