News

Please be sure to check back to our website for updates as they become available, or sign up on The Red Masque's email list by emailing theredmasque@theredmasque.com with "Add to Email List" in the subject header. You can also join the band's facebook page here for the most up-to-date announcements.

New Album
12.21.11: The Red Masque are currently working on material in order to start recording a new album in 2012. The band hopes to record an initial four songs in the spring, wtih more songs to be worked on and recorded on an on-going basis. The new album will be a thematic album inspired by various world mythologies and legends.

Update
11.21.11: The Red Masque have uploaded photos of their recent PhilaMOCA show. You can view the pictures here. In addition, a video of the performance will soon be posted on youtube. Please check the multimedia and downloads page for updates.

New "Dark Salt Sea" Video Now Available
9.26.11: TRM's drummer Steve Craig has edited together a new video of the song "Dark Salt Sea " from the band's May 2011 gig at Pyramid Atlantic in Washington DC. Video footage provided by Debi Byrd and Brandon Ross. Steve will be editing together more videos from this show soon. In the meantime, you can see the video here.

Just announced!
11.20.2011: Thinking Plague, Hamster Theater, The Red Masque and Syrrah at the Philadelphia Mausoleum Of Contemporary Art (PhilaMOCA), 531 North 12th St., Philadelphia, PA 19123; 7 PM sharp. $12 in advance, $15 at the door. All Ages. BYOB. Facebook Event Page link.

New Red Masque Performance Video Now Available
8.15.11: TRM have just uploaded a new video from the band's July show at the Telemark Clubhouse in Rockaway, NJ. Please click here to view the video on youtube. The band is also at work on organizing a professionally recorded live show / performance webcast at a studio in Pennsylvania for the Fall. Full details will be provided as soon as they are fleshed out. In the meantime, please enjoy the above video.

New Polphemus Video Now Available
7.04.11: TRM's drummer Steve Craig has edited together a new video of the song "Polyphemus" from the band's recent gig at Pyramid Atlantic in Washington DC. Video footage provided by Debi Byrd and Brandon Ross. Steve will be editing together more videos from this show soon. In the meantime, you can see the video here.

New Shows Added
6.19.11: New shows added to the schedule page. Check it out.

New Live Video from The Red Masque
5.29.11: "Polyphemus" by The Red Masque (live at Pyramid Atlantic on May 21 2011) is now up on Youtube. We still have to edit apart and upload the videos for the rest of the show for youtube so enjoy this song in the meantime! 

Click to view:
"Polyphemus" by The Red Masque

Subscribe to Lynnette’s youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/LynnetteShelley
Link to show photo gallery: http://www.theredmasque.com/gallery05.html<

Art Interview in The Journal Of Unlikely Entomology
The first issue of The Journal of Unlikely Entomology is now online and TRM's Lynnette Shelley is the featured artist for its inaugural issue. This new online magazine is devoted to all things creepy and crawly. Her artwork "The Mosquito" (used on the cover of “Fossil Eyes”) is used to illustrate the short story, "Love in the Absence of Mosquitoes" by Mari Ness. In addition, editor Bernie Mojzes and Art Director Linda Saboe conducted an interview with Lynnette, which you can read here. The interview is mostly about Lynnette’s artwork but also delves a bit into the music of The Red Masque as well.

New Interview
4.28.11: Journalist A.D. Amorosi interviews TRM's Lynnette Shelley about the recent fire, new music and upcoming adventures. See the article here or check out more archived interviews in our new Press section on this website.

Burning Down the House!
04.07.11: Ironically, after our last gig was cancelled due to a fire, our next gig is at The Fire in Philadelphia, along with Moraine and K2. Details:

Sunday, May 1 at 8:00pm
The Fire , 412 W. Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA
$10. Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/fb/3583865
Link to the Facebook Event Page

MORAINE with THE RED MASQUE and K2

MORAINE
Moraine is an omnivorous Seattle-based instrumental quintet made up of guitarist Dennis Rea, violinist Alicia DeJoie, woodwind player James DeJoie, bassist Kevin Millard, and drummer Stephen Cavit. With its several writers and full complement of ace instrumentalists arrayed in striking combination, Moraine achieves a unique sound while drawing on forms ranging from art rock to Chinese folk music to plugged-in power jazz and more. Moraine has been enthusiastically received by audiences ranging from jazz aficionados to progressive rock devotees to metalheads. The band's 2009 release on NYC-based MoonJune Records, manifest deNsity, has received more than 100 glowing reviews in 30 countries, and its set at NEARfest 2010 was considered by many to be a highlight of the festival.

http://www.moraineband.com/about.cfm

THE RED MASQUE
Founded in February 2001 by bassist/keyboardist Brandon Ross and vocalist Lynnette Shelley, the Red Masque went through several lineup changes over the years, but its intent and integrity has always remained the same. The band's goal was, and is, to create original music that pushes the envelope of the listener's expectations. With such influences as Magma, King Crimson, Hawkwind, Gong, Pink Floyd, Bauhaus, Art Bears, and Van Der Graaf Generator, The Red Masque's compositions are as intense as they are unique.

One of the group's first concerts was at the Prelude to the North East Art Rock Festival (NEARFest) in 2001. Other notable shows include the 2005 Rogue Independent Music Festival in Atlanta, the 2001 World Con Science Fiction Convention, the New Jersey proghouse series, Orion Studios in Baltimore; the Philadelphia Landing Pad Space Rock Festival; and The Gate to Moonbase Alpha concert series at the Rotunda in Philadelphia. The Red Masque also organized and performed in the 2002 and 2003 Philadelphia Underground Music and Culture Festival. The Red Masque have also opened up for notable performers and musicians such as Chris Cutler (Henry Cow, Art Bears), The Muffins, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and Present. They have also performed on stage with such well-regarded drummers and percussionists as David Kerman (5UUs, Present, Thinking Plague) and Paul Sears (The Muffins, Thee Maximalists).

Steadily growing an audience within the underground progressive and psychedelic music communities for their uncompromising and intense style of music, The Red Masque have released to date one EP ("Death of the Red Masque" in 2001), and three albums ("Victoria and the Haruspex" in 2002, "Feathers for Flesh" in 2004, and "Fossil Eyes" in 2008), as well as one single (2003). "Feathers for Flesh" was released through the Big Balloon Music label out of Washington state and garnered critical reviews in the press, including Wire Magazine, Harmonie Magazine, Progresiste Magazine, iO Pages, Colussus Magazine, Tarkus Magazine, Progression Magazine, Expose Magazine, the Philadelphia City Paper, Metro Philadelphia, and various online newsletters, blogs, and review sites. Interviews in various progressive music media also followed, including Progression Magazine and Expose Magazine.

http://www.theredmasque.com/

K2
K2 began quite by accident in May of 2001 when bassist Ken Jaquess asked drummer Doug Sanborn to play on some new music he was working on. Having no idea if anything would come of these sessions, they set out to record a bold and daring project that would soon take on a life all its own. After only 4 rehearsals and 5 hours of recording, Ken and Doug had laid the foundation for an incredible epic album of high musicianship, complex compositions and haunting themes. What happened next was completely unexpected. Over the next 4 years,fellow musicians Allan Holdsworth, Ryo Okumoto, Shaun Guerin, Yvette Devereaux & John Miner added layer upon layer of unique, signature sounds that resulted in K2's first album "Book of the Dead". Critically acclaimed around the world, K2 went on to perform BOTD live with a new line-up consisting of Ken and Doug, Ryo Okumoto (keyboards), Karl Johnson (guitar), and Josh Gleason (vocals). In 2006, K2 filmed their first gig, which was released on their 2008 concert DVD, "K2 Live in Hollywood". In 2007, this lineup went back to the drawing board to create what would become their long overdue 2nd release, "Black Garden". The new K2 album to be released September 21st, 2010 on Magna Carta Records, showcases this modern rock quintet in an entirely new setting. With a central theme of Oceania, K2 explores the hidden depths of this mysterious region and take the listener on a dark, sonic journey to places rarely visited, and offers a glimpse of a people unlike any other on earth.

http://www.reverbnation.com/k2band


Upcoming Shows
03.2011: Hello from The Red Masque! We have several upcoming shows that we would like to share with you. We hope to see you at some of them. (and more are in the works).

THIS SATURDAY!
03.26.2011: The Red Masque & Radio Eris plus David S. Aponte DJing from his eclectic, and exotic collection of music between sets. At Hoi Polloi Studios, (in the Amber Street Studios Building), 3240 Collins Street, Philadelphia, PA. $8 door donation. 8 PM. See the facebook event page here

Come early as this will be a very intimate space with limited capacity to see the Red Masque. We will be performing for over an hour in this BYOB arts space.

05.01.2011: Moraine, The Red Masque and K2 at The Fire, 412 W Girard Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19123; 267-671-9298. $10. More details to come.

05.21.2011: Sonic Circuits Experimental Music Series at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD. $8. 8 PM. With Mary Kavalauskas. Link to show Details

08.06.2011: Elephant Talk Music Festival, Atlantic City, NJ. Details

For the latest details, please visit our schedule page or join our fan page on facebook:

Check out a youtube clip from our last show that a fan took:



Happy Anniversary
02.2011: It's the Red Masque's ten year anniversary. Although it's been a long strange trip, we have had a lot of fun along the way. We have revamped the band website, as the old one was getting a bit long in the tooth and out-of-shape. We hope you enjoy our new website and find it easier to use and navigate. If you have any technical issues, please email Lynnette at lynnette@theredmasque.com.

Please check out our concert schedule page as we are busy booking shows and have some exciting ones coming up. We also have new band promo photos to be posted soon on our gallery page, taken by the talented David Pym (who played guitar on our live album, Stars Fall On Me). You may also want to check out this new interview, recently posted online at The Rocktologist.

We are also hard at work working on new material, and hope to record a new album in the future. In the meantime, we will continue to offer live recordings via our multimedia and downloads page. We hope to offer even more selection of video and audio recordings in the future. If anybody has taken any bootleg video or audio recordings at any of our shows, please contact the band at theredmasque@theredmasque.com


The Red Masque at Orion Studios, November 1, 2008. Photo by Debbie Sears