Hearts Felt Music
Evelyn Evelyn are the Neville sisters from a small town outside Seattle, Washington. Conjoined at the side they share 3 legs, 2 arms, 3 lungs, 2 hearts and 1 liver. Master musicians, together they play guitar, piano, accordion, ukulele and drums. Christened Eva and Lynn in later life they decided they preferred to be addressed as one person. Their first foray into show-business came in 1996 when they appeared as part of Dillard and Fullerton’s Traveling Circus. This taste for performance, circus and the slightly macabre remains a feature of their solo work.
Having left the circus at the age of 19 they were discovered by Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley. Immediately transfixed by the raw and completely genuine sound of the sisters Palmer and Webley tracked them down and persuaded them to work with them and went on to record a 3 track in 2007 and more recently an album. Their sound is Americana meets the the big top via freak-show carnival. The self titled ep is scheduled for double release next month on 11records and 8ft records to coincide with an American and European tour. The album has been engineered and orchestrated by Webley who has given the whole thing a much larger and more fleshed out sound than that of the sisters’ earlier work. Guests on the record include Weird Al Yankovic, Frances Bean Cobain,Neil Gaiman, showing just how much support the sisters are receiving. Their 2007 release Elephant Elephant, which features a fantastic cover of Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Appart, sold out it’s 1111 copies in no time; the album looks set to do just as well with the 3 London dates of the tour already sold out.
Along side the album and touring, Evelyn Evelyn are also set to feature in the literary world; Cynthia von Buhler is creating a graphic novel based on the life of the twins for Dark Horse Books. With such a strong marketing campaign behind them it wont be long before the sisters will be joined by more fans.
Evelyn Evelyn tracks and tour dates
Tags: Amanda Palmer, Circus, Conjoined, Elephant Elephant, Eva, Evelyn Evelyn, Jason Webley, Lynn, Music, Outsider, Siamese, Sisters
