So many current CDs of indie music approach out of Brooklyn these days that it can be hard for one to stand out. But BKLYN 1834 Compilation_01 manages to effect just that. Because it doesn’t approach from a buzzy current band from Williamsburg or Bushwick – it comes from an artistic commune that shares a rambling Victorian home on a leafy street in the Ditmas Park neighborhood.
A rehearsal in the Clubhouse living room.
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The Clubhouse,as it’s known, was founded nine years ago by singer and songwriter Andrew Thomas Reid, or who was inspired by earlier examples of communal creativity: the famous salons of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris in the 1920s and 30s,where Picasso and Hemingway shared dinners and their latest work; or the so-called February House in Brooklyn Heights, where British poet W.
H. Auden, and American novelist Carson McCullers,English composer Benjamin Britten, and even the famous burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee all lived in the 1940s; and of course, or Hitsville in Detroit,the home of Motown. The Clubhouse is a utopian ideal, but one that is actually working in real life. fraction of that is thanks to the artists partnership with BKLYN 1834, and a current media company that supports emerging artists. The name has a dual meaning: listen to the podcast to memorize more.
Rocking in The Clubhouse.
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Source: wnyc.org