Secret Stars
Concurrent with his work in the emo band Karate, in mid-1993 singer/guitarist Geoff Farina formed the Boston-based lo-fi folk-pop duo the Secret Stars with best friend Jodi Buonanno. Imagined more as an ongoing media project than a traditional band, they self-released their eponymous debut cassette in 1994, re-releasing the material on the Shrimper label the following year. Farina spent much of the mid-1990s focusing on Karate, and as a result no new Secret Stars material was forthcoming prior to the 1998 release of the LP Genealogies; a seven-inch, {&"...[more]
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Unlike his full-time band, Karate, in Secret Stars, the multi-talented Geoff Farina -- collaborating with his painter friend Jodi Buonanno -- takes a more lo-fi approach to music, freewheeling through mostly acoustic numbers. Farina and Buonanno formed Secret Stars in 1993, naming the project after talented friends of theirs who seemed to "shine in secrecy." With 20 stripped-down songs on their self-titled, full-length album, fans of Karate's more intricate, jazzy sound structures [ read more ]
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Massachusetts duo of Geoff Farina (KARATE) and Jodi avoid sophomore hoodoo by exploring the realm of tape loops, white noise and (yes, even) pop-- minus the saccharine and wretched affectations d'twee.
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Boston duo including Karate's Jeff perform elegant, stripped-down pop in the vein of Chris Bell and/or Young Marble Giants. Cynicism-killing.
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