Les Sewing Sisters Record Read-lease Party

Album Release Party Without Live Music

Saturday, December 10, 2022 - 8:00pm

 

Les Sewing Sisters Record Read-lease Party: Album Release Party Without Live Music

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Doors open at 7:30 pm - Event begins at 8:00 pm

Tickets $22 ($10 VPES Members)

 

Les Sewing Sisters are Lun*na Menoh and Saori Mitome. The music of Les Sewing Sisters are sounds from sewing machines recorded and electronically filtered. The lyrics deal with the nature of making clothing, sewing, and designing costumes.

This Record Read-lease Party will showcase spoken-word iterations of Les Sewing Sisters songs to highlight the sewing-filled lyrics.

Following the reading is a screening of the film "Les Sewing Sisters Home Tour", directed by Jeff Mizushia. Made during the pandemic, Les Sewing Sisters traveled to many closets around Los Angeles to perform for and in front of people’s clothes.

Jeff Mizushia also directed the documentary "Who Is Lun*na Menoh?" (2022), now available to rent & purchase online.

 

Les Sewing Sisters are Lun*na Menoh and Saori Mitome.  Both are from Japan. Their primary instruments are the noise from the sewing machines put through various sound devices as well as the computer.  It’s pop meets Musique Concréte.  Every lyric in their songs deals with the subject matter of clothing, such as the making of clothes, sewing clothes, and wearing clothes.  The unique focus comes from Lun*na Menoh’s visual art which deals with the issue of clothing - in its history and the political juxtaposition between manufacturing and the Western & Eastern class system.   In a nutshell, pop songs but performed on the sewing machine.

Lun*na Menoh is a visual artist, composer, clothes-maker, performer, singer, and painter.   Previously she was in the band Seksu Roba and Jean Paul Yamamoto.  She also participated and collaborated with the band ADULT. on their album video project: "Detroit House Guests" (Mute Records, 2017).

Saori Mitome is a musician, singer, costume designer, and wardrobe stylist.

 

LES SEWING SISTERS LIMITED EDITION 12" VINYL ALBUM

WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT THE EVENT

 

 Author Tosh Berman holds Les Sewing Sisters album