MUSIC, ART, and CULTURE | Yula & The eXtended Family
Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 08:11PM
"Mouthful of Diamonds," live footage montage at The Highline Ballroom in New York
Music, Art and Culture | Yula & The eXtended Family
YXF is an ever-growing, ever-morphing poetic tribe. We play Ro-Punk... Ro-Punk is what's left after you eliminate all the other definitions. Punk cause life is hard. Romantic cause there should always be hope. What are we doing? Striving for an ideal reality knowing that it's very unlikely to happen in our lifetime, yet it gives us joy to know we're trying...
We buzz around finding others with similar agenda, make friends, barter ideas, and bounce them around. Aside from that we make music, visual art, theater, literature, and mix them all together whenever we get the chance. On this Ship of Fools we---sail! We are...
Yula Be'eri, singer/ songwriter/ pianist/ guitarist/ bassist, who previously played with the World Inferno Friendship Society, Nanuchka, and Star Fucking Hipsters, and alongside members of other bands including Balkan Beatbox, The Dresden Dolls, The Hold Steady, Gato Loco Cococino, and so many others...
Isaac Gardner, drummer/ sound effects artist/ builder/ actor, who recently finished a run of his one-man show, We Are But Dust, and has long crafted the arts of theater and percussion...
Stefan Zeniuk, songwriter/ saxophone/ clarinet/ prankster, who also leads the brass band, Gato Loco Cococino, as well as the sound assault force, The Baritone Army...
Roy Gurel, songwriter/ guitarist/ bassist, who also plays with Electro-Morocco...
Taylor Galassi, songwriter/ accordionist/ cellist, and one-half of the cabaret punk duo, This Way to the Egress...
Kevin Taylor, songwriter/ accordionist/ trombonist, and conductor of fellow ro-punk bands, Torcher Chamber and Kid Twist...
Sarah Zar, songwriter/ musical saw player/ painter/ website designer/ sculptress/ curator of art shows, and a founding member of Row Raven Row and The Marionette Roulette, as well as musical saw player with singer Shayfer James...
Kate Campbell, trumpeteer/ glockenspiel/ storyteller, who plays in Torcher Champer as well as for Kid Twist...
Rob Ussin, trombonist/ agriculturalist/ merman...
Mike Cuttita, cellist/ storyteller...
Kriss Marchena, manager/ poet/ culinary artist...
Daniel J Gerstle, bassist/ guitarist/ writer/ photographer...
Music is often hard to categorize, especially when one is aiming for a new kind of sound. Inspired by everything from hardcore punk to Mediterranean rock to Klezmer to Caribbean brass, The eXtended Family plays music which is punk in spirit and joyous in melody, a new kind of punk we call ro-punk...
Check out our musical performances below...
"Kriss," photo montage from South X Southwest festival in Austin, Texas
"Red" (under previous band name, Nanuchka)
"Mediterranean" (under previous band name, Nanuchka)
"Thumb Cinema" at Le Poisson Rouge, New York
"Barcelona," live in the American South
"Yulix," live at Rockwood in New York's Lower East Side