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| Bio of the Artist |
If I think I am being honest, then I try to be even a little more honest. Greater and greater honesty is my main goal in life and music. Like a shaman, I do not know the way things are "supposed" to be.
Being extremely sensitive is my gift or curse depending on how you look at it.
I feel almost everything times a hundred.
I write songs to express what is beyond words, and that's a lot.
Loss and hardship is the sand that makes the pearl.
Music, the healing arts, and lovemaking, are the only forms of communication that make any kind of sense to me. Words feel clonky and abrasive most of the time:)
I grew up in Chicago with the music scene in the early 70's. It was a thrilling time to be alive. I loved every minute of it. I was in love with life. I hitch-hiked to the Auditorium, Arie Crown, Aragon, Kinetic Playground to see all the great acts, like the Kinks, King Crimson, Neil Young, Todd Rundgren, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Iggy Pop. Then when I moved to New York City I practically lived at CBGB's and Max's Kansas City. Devo played their first show at Max's. Great artists came to hear great artists, so Bowie was there. Talking Heads, The Ramones, N. Y. Dolls, Blondie, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, and Brian Eno were part of the "Village" scene. My best friends were Michael Brown from The Left Banke, and Joe Stefko from Meatloaf back then. John Lennon hung out at a place called Home. Woody Allen played clarinet every Monday at Michael's Pub. I worked at the Bottom Line Theater, where Lou Reed for example, would call and ask, "If there's nothing booked, can we play?". In a matter of 3 hours, the place would be packed. Back then word travelled fast on the streets. I worked backstage for many of the shows at the Bottom Line. I learned alongside the best artists in the world, helping them with whatever they needed, before and after they climbed onto the stage. I remember when Todd Rundgren presented the very first music video ever, called "All the Children Sing", and Elvis Costello played his very first show in the States, "My Aim Is True". Meatloaf performed his rock opera "Bat Out of Hell", and Carly Simon and James Taylor performed "Mockingbird" there together. Backstage that evening looked like a funeral parlor there were so many red roses. On any given night, the audience was also amazing. Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, Dick Cavette, Jackie Onassis, Brian Eno, John Lennon, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens, Keith Richards, to name a few... And later on, well then there was The Mudd Club...
REVIEWS:
Not only a musical talent, but a healer. LA-based Charisse Landise's positive songs will leave you feeling sunny. With a sweet voice she delivers winsome, unpretentious, melodic tunes. The arrangements benefit from just the right amount of quirkiness. There's an openness and honesty about these songs. "Come Home" is inviting indeed. The environmentally friendly "Sacred Forest", has a '60s vibrancy. "Telepathic Stargirl", the title track of her CD, confirms that Charisse is an utterly charming original. Paul Freeman Entertainment Writer, San Francisco Daily News.
Most unpredictable pop urgency of Charisse Landise is the sonorous voicing of the celestial, the melody of the unrestrained natural world clamoring about refusing to be ignored. Hers is music of grace and promise and attention. Charisse sings prayers of thanks and of warnings urgently necessary to absent-minded times.
Charisse Landise's previous collaborations have been smashing, as in Percussionist/Producer Kerry Brown (Smashing Pumpkins), Songwriter Michael Brown (The Left Banke), Singer/Songwriter Syd Straw, and has also shared bills with pal Loudon Wainwright III, JohnTrudell. |
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