Drums – Matt Saccuccimorano (tracks: 5 to 8, 11). Producer – Billy Coté, Mary Lorson.
Piano Creeps is a collection of these cinematic ditties. Here violins, Moogs and spare beats roll downhill at varying speeds, while tweaked guitars and ivory keys are picked, plunked and tinkled leisurely yet deliberately to create sounds that are slow-soaked in ambience. Aside from the title track, Piano Creeps is not that creepy. The audible sighs and cavernous reverb on Newfield Baptist Church and King Brothers may have an eerie air, but it comes across more sad than spooky. On the whole, the album rarely steers toward any strong emotions
Mary Lorson and Billy Cote released this song on their 2003 Cooking Vinyl disc, "Piano Creeps".
Mary Lorson, Billy Cote, Johnny Kick, Matt Verta-Ray. Madder Rose was a New York City-based alternative rock band who recorded in the 1990s. The two singer/songwriters continued their collaboration, Coté as guest producer on Lorson's three discs with Saint Low, Lorson as guest vocalist on Coté's Jazz Cannon disc. Coté and Lorson together released a largely instrumental album "Piano Creeps" under their own names on Cooking Vinyl in 2003 Currently, Madder Rose founder Billy Coté works occasionally with Johnny Dowd. He has guested on guitar on each of Dowd's last two records.
Lorson and Madder Rose bandmate BIlly Coté also began working on film music around this time and in 2003 released Piano Creeps, an album derived from their work in the cinematic realm. In 2006, the duo (and a cast of many) released Realistic under the Mary Lorson & Saint Low moniker. MacKenzie Wilson & Tim Sendra.
Responsible for some of the sweetest and, unfortunately, most overlooked indie rock of the '90s, New York City's Madder Rose featured guitarist Billy Coté, drummer Johnny Kick, bassist Matt Verta-Ray, and guitarist/vocalist Mary Lorson. Their lovely 1993 debut album, Bring It Down, introduced the band's winning combination of Lorson's dulcet voice and Coté and Lorson's eloquent songs; while it was a critical success, that album and its equally graceful 1994 follow-up, Panic On, both eluded commercial success. In 2003 Coté and Lorson also released an album of their other work together, Piano Creeps.
Madder Rose members included Billy Coté (guitar), Mary Lorson (vocals, guitar), Matt Verta-Ray (bass, vocals), Rick Kubic aka Johnny Kick (drums, vocals) and Chris Giammalvo (bass). After the breakup, Lorson founded the alt-folk outfit Saint Low, which featured Coté on guitar and production duties, releasing its eponymous debut in 2000. This was followed, under the name Mary Larson & Saint Low, by Tricks For Dawn (2002) and Realistic (2006). Coté and Lorson together released a largely instrumental album Piano Creeps under their own names on Cooking Vinyl in 2003. Coté, Lorson and t Kathy Zeigler then released an album as The Piano Creeps in 2008, called Future Blues (For Me and You), on The Kora Records. Currently, Madder Rose founder Billy Coté works occasionally with Johnny Dowd. He has guested on guitar on each of Dowd’s last two records.
The two singer/songwriters continued their collaboration after Madder Rose disbanded, Coté as guest producer on Lorson's three discs with Saint Low, Lorson as guest vocalist on Coté's Jazz Cannon disc. Lorson and Cote have also created the original scores to several films, notably HBO's documentary of Sally Mann, and in 2008 released a disc with Kathy Ziegler as The Piano Creeps
