Artist Info: Moritat

1. Moritat is the hard-grooving, avant-rock trio from Chicago behind the 2012 studio LP Clill Blanzin, which the Chicago Reader hailed as "full of serious earworms". The group is composed of vocalist and keyboardist Venus Laurel, bassist/guitarist Konstantin Jace, and drummer Corey McCafferty. Their first EP, One Minute Fade, was released in the summer of 2010.

Venus met Konstantin and Corey in Chicago, and their subsequent contributions to her solo piano project quickly blossomed into a full musical collaboration. [read more...]