La Dee Da has been hibernating a bit lately, playing mostly underground shows and woodshedding hard in preparation for recording our third full length album this winter. It’s been a while coming…Distracted by the silver linings of a new era, we’ve been having fun outdoors at DIY music events lately. Please send an email to selkiefest @ gmail.com if you want invites to such events. And if you haven’t heard it yet check out this strange holiday release, a satirical jam from Rosie’s home studio:
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La Dee Da began when Rosie Steffy wrote her first song at age seventeen. She met Aaron Handler in Oakland’s thriving warehouse music scene in 2006 and invited him to play bass on an early La Dee Da cassette release called “Goaty”. A few years later she moved into a tool shed behind Oakland’s DIY house venue The Speakeasy where Fletch lived and, following a terrific living room jam session, a trio was formed: Rosie’s lilting vocals, Fletch’s creature-like drums, Aaron’s acoustic bass and the milky sound of the Speakeasy’s loud old upright piano. Late in the night a few years down the road, Rebecca Kleinmann’s flute wafted across a lake to Rosie’s admiring ears at a party in the woods and after a few hours communing at the piano the two were mutually enchanted. Lewis Patzner began as a guest collaborator in the studio. The interplay between Rebecca’s soaring flute lines and Lewis’s cello was too exhilarating; a mysterious magnetism soon drew him into the fold. The five-piece improv-oriented chamber pop version of La Dee Da is immortalized on their first full length album “A Day in the Park”. Ever exploring new terrain, the band has since shifted back into its original trio form. Rosie, Fletch and Aaron are now crystallizing their powers, delving into new songs with grooves ranging from Art Rock to R&B. “Under Weather” (released 12.02.18) exemplifies this shift into spacious, reverb-soaked rock-n-roll territory. “A Day in the Park”, La Dee Da’s debut album, was released on vinyl and cassette in autumn of 2013. (Non-analog fans have no worries – it’s also available in digital form.) Both albums were recorded to tape by local legend Greg Ashley at Creamery Studio in Oakland, California.
“Under Weather“
