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Let Me Introduce The Rainbow Girls
Indie | Tuesday 11th June 2013 | Abby
Brace yourselves people! Get ready to become acquainted with a fun-loving, eclectic, and lively girl-gang.
Bring some colour into your music library with the all-girl group, Rainbow Girls. If you have not been acquainted with Rainbow Girls, well, prepare yourself for music that is full of attitude and colour. Founded in December 2010, Rainbow Girls has since developed into what they call a five-piece ‘Electric All-Lady Stomp-Folk Grand Band’. This band has fused pop-rock, gypsy-Americana, electric, stomp, and folk-indie into one genre a result of the bands collective vivacious personality and music. Rainbow Girls is a charismatic girl group who have not only created an inventive genre of music, but they have also constructed an imaginative background story. Instead of just reiterating the story of how the band was formed, the narrative is exaggerated and given a descriptive and into a narrative personifying colour, as each member becomes identifiable as a colour. This is Rainbow Girls background story:
“Rainbow Girls formed in the bottom of a radioactive crater. The first two colours to explode grinning from the mud were Red and Yellow, who soon realized that in order to fulfil their destiny, they needed to find the rest of the colours and join together to create an Electric All-Lady Stomp-Folk Grand Band. Green was discovered practicing voodoo in a barn in Carpinteria, while Violet was drawn to the harmonious, soul lifting shrieks of a particularly festive Monday night ritual known as BEAN NIGHT. The four immediately took off on a gust of wind to Joshua Tree and Big Bear Mountain, and travelled through Europe by the skin of their teeth, couch-surfing, playing music on the streets, staying in art squats and getting deported from London. When they returned, bursting with rock but lacking a drummer, Blue, carrying an entire drum kit around her body like a huge metal cloak, trampolined forth from inside a stand at the Farmers Market and Rainbow Girls was formed.”
A creative bunch, this band with their crazy imagination and a wicked fun-loving side, is evident in their music style, use of instruments, and lyrical composition, leaving no space for a dull moment. Every member of Rainbow Girls is equally important because each contribute to uniqueness of the band, and each are multi-instrumentalists, except for Orange, Hannah Jewel, who only plays one instrument – but arguably the most difficult and crucial instrument part of the Rainbow Girls inimitable sound, the cello. The variety of instruments used by the band is exhaustive, from the acoustic guitar, to the intricate accordion, to the rare use of the washboard. As emerging artists, the band still enjoys busking at the Santa Barbara Farmers Market in California, and this and their Californian roots is reflected in their gypsy-Americana beats.
These girls have conjured up a playful, frivolous, and impressive 17 track album called The Sound Of Light, released on 26th May 2013. The album track-list is composed of outstanding songs! This album is worth getting a hold of!
So, what exactly does the fusion genre of gypsy-Americana, electric, rock, stomp-folk sound like, you ask? Well, here is one of Rainbow Girls tracks to find out. Get ready, have a listen, and see what you think.
Written By Abby
