Brooklyn-based Charming Disaster is an eclectic duo steeped in the gothic humor of Edward Gorey and the story telling of folks like Tim Burton!

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Brooklyn-based musical duo Charming Disaster was formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker (of Sweet Soubrette and Funkrust Brass Band) and Jeff Morris (of Kotorino). Inspired by the gothic humor of Edward Gorey, Charles Addams, and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories about death, crime, myth, magic, science, and the occult. Charming Disaster's music has been featured on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, they have toured the United States and Europe, and have opened for Rasputina, Aurelio Voltaire, and The Dresden Dolls. Recent appearances include Dragon Con, Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre in NYC, the Rochester Fringe Festival, and the Coney Island Sideshow stage. Their critically acclaimed albums include Love, Crime & Other Trouble (2015), Cautionary Tales (2017), Spells + Rituals (2019), Our Lady of Radium (2022), Super Natural History (2023), and the singles collection Time Ghost (2024). website www.CharmingDisaster.com social media www.Instagram.com/charmingdisasterband www.Facebook.com/charmingdisaster About Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris The Music Matters Podcast is hosted by Darrell Craig Harris, a globally published music journalist, professional musician, and Getty Images photographer. Music Matters is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, and more. Each week, Darrell interviews renowned artists, musicians, music journalists, and insiders from the music industry. Visit us at: www.MusicMattersPodcast.com Follow us on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/musicmattersdh For inquiries, contact: [email protected] Support our mission via PayPal: www.paypal.me/payDarrell

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0:00.0	Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris,
0:07.1	talking about all things music with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.
0:23.1	Alia and Jeff, how are you doing today?
0:24.0	Good.
0:25.4	Nice to see you.
0:26.2	Nice to be here.
0:27.5	Yeah, great to be here.
0:28.2	Awesome.
0:32.9	So you have a band or duo, I should say, Charming Disaster, which is really cool. And it's really fun music, very story-driven, kind of like dark Gothic.
0:38.8	I don't know. You guys will have to describe what you, how you feel about it. But I was checking out your music. It's really fun.
0:43.5	Like I said, a lot of kind of story stuff. It reminds me kind of Vincent Price meets, I don't know,
0:49.7	Tim Burton, I like that. Yeah. I like that.
0:52.3	So tell me about you guys. So you have your seventh albums coming out.
0:55.3	You just had, I think you had a release party last night.
0:57.7	Is that right?
0:58.0	We did.
0:58.6	We're like still in the afterglow of the album release party.
1:02.8	Awesome.
1:04.0	So tell me, tell me about the band and how you guys got together and all that stuff.
1:07.8	13 years ago.
1:10.2	Once upon a time, 13 years ago. Once upon a time, 13 years ago, Jeff and I Etow had a large band of our own.
1:15.6	And we met in a bar one night by chance. I caught Jeff's band Coderino, and I thought,
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