JOYCE ROOKS
performing with various youth orchestras and ensembles until the age of 18 at which time her musical career took a different turn.While not able to continue a formal music education, her informal music studies began.
A child of rhythm and blues, jazz and rock & roll, as well as other musical influences,
at the urging of friends she began playing jam sessions with guitars and other instruments.Along with cello, Joyce also played guitar and sang in various bands over the years.These ranged from an all-female punk rock band (The Dinettes) to ska (the Trowsers) to New Wave (the Penetrators.)
With the advent of digital technology and better cello pick-ups, her cello has been electrified and treated with effects
to help bring the instrument to an ever-widening range of venues.She has performed and recorded locally in San Diego, Los Angeles, across the U.S. and in Europe with artists such as David J
(of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets), folk-pop chanteuse Cindy Lee Berryhill, The Beat Farmers, The Black Heart Procession,
Hal Wilner’s Edgar Allen Poe Project and many others.
In the past several years she has been composing and recording with the computer
in an attempt to bring acoustic instrumentation and vocals together with the electronic.
Web site url :
http://www.myspace.com/joycerooks
Complete discografy on discogs.com
Releases on label :
[did-016] Joyce Rooks - Composure EP
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