Artist description Bridging the gap between spirit and flesh, man and machine, horror and beauty...MiLkBabY mixes ancient world traditions with the most modern of trip-hop sounds to create its soundscapes through improvisation and without the use of overdubs or sequencing.

Music Style Trance-organic Tribal Groove

Musical Influences Dead Can Dance, King Crimson, Brian Eno, The The

Similar Artists Dead Can Dance,Cocteau Twins, Portishead, Nurse With Wound, Coil, Brian Eno

Artist History MiLkBabY has been thrilling audiences since 1997 and already have a number of world premiere theatre and dance scores under their belt including work with: National Pastime, PROP THTR, A.K.A., Aardvark, Chicago Moving Company, Mordine and Company, World Dance Day (Salzburg, Austria), and others. The group also spent 18 weeks serving as musical backbone to jazz great Kahil El Zabar's multi-disciplinary event, Monologues & Martinis, which played to packed houses throughout its run at the Chicago venue, 'Rituals'.

Group Members Tracee Westmoreland (vocals, treatments) Barry Bennett(djembe, congas, keyboards, treatments) David Lee Smith (electric pads,drum kit, treatments)

Instruments djembe, congas, keyboards, vocals, electric pads, drum kit

Albums implied muse-iks, hUmaN

Press Reviews "the trippiest of trip hop" - Chicago Reader "primal, memorable and ominous" - New City "it calls to mind never visited places that are somehow still familar" - Centerstage Chicago "best of the esoteric realm" - Illinois Entertainer "a weird wonderful mixture of world music" - Chicago Daily Herald "haunting" - Chicago Tribune

Location Chicago, IL - USA

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