All Girl Summer Fun Band

Because the Portland pop quartet All Girl Summertime Fun Band proclaim within their aptly-titled “Theme Tune”: “They’re absolutely nothing big / But they’re absolutely nothing small / Simply four close friends that you would like to call / With Kathy, Kim, Arirak, and Jen / If you hear their music / You will want to hear them again.” The group contains Kathy Foster (drums, vocals), Jen Sbragia (electric guitar, vocals), and New Mexico transplants Kim Baxter (keyboards, vocals) and Ari Douangpanya (bass, vocals). All also have logged amount of time in various other rings, including Baxter’s stint with Little Astronauts, Cherry Glaciers Cream Smile, and something Two; Sbragia with Pretty Encounter, Kissing Book, as well as the Softies (a duo with Tiger Snare vocalist Rose Melberg); and Foster with Haelah, Hutch and Kathy, as well as the one-woman music group Butterfly Transformation Program. The foursome happened following a Softies display in Portland in 1998, when Baxter contacted Sbragia using a cassette tape of her music. She and Douangpanya acquired recently transferred to city from Albuquerque, where Baxter acquired performed a gig with K Information’ co-founder Calvin Johnson many years prior. Sbragia enjoyed what she noticed, and Baxter presented her to several like-minded souls: Foster and Douangpanya. That summertime, Baxter asked if the ladies wish to make music jointly. The solution was a keen, unequivocal yes. She defined the potential outcomes to be that of an “all female summer fun music group” as well as the name trapped. Claiming several pop purveyors as affects, Baxter and Sbragia started to create the band’s spicy/nice materials while fielding efforts from the complete group. Their 1st solitary was a four-song launch on Magic Marker, released on pink vinyl fabric and having a cartoon-style cover by Sbragia (who also designed the band’s flyers). Next arrived a break up with Japanese music group Picture Jenny on Small Red Wagon, accompanied by contributions to many compilation CDs. All Lady Summer time Fun Band’s 1st full-length recording, a self-titled work on Olympia’s K, premiered in Feb of 2002. Composed of 13 catchy, candy-coated figures about crushes, long-distance associations, and damaged hearts, the record received raves from several publications like the Village Voice as well as the London Times. Over time, the music group has used a great many other impartial performers, including Dub Narcotic AUDIO SYSTEM (which matters K’s Johnson among its rates), C.O.C.O., Mates of Condition, Modest Mouse, and Wayne Mercer from the Shins. Upon the discharge of their 1st long-player, they journeyed round the Northwest before going to California in March. In Sept of 2002, they came back towards the studio to begin with focus on another record, accompanied by an East Coastline tour with Johnson in past due October. In Apr of 2003, girls released the recording they had started working on because the earlier 12 months. 2 was another brief and sweet summer time pop record that extended the band’s pursuing, but Douangpanya bowed out the next year to spotlight motherhood. Another associates soldiered on being a trio, as well as the band’s third work, Looking at It, found its way to Sept 2008.