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Kira Vollman is a breathtaking vocalist with the voice of a fallen angel. “My patience threshold is pretty low”, she reveals. Perhaps this explains her tendency to jump from style to style and sound to sound in her vocalizations. Or does it refer to her sometimes dim view of the rest of humanity? She feels it is her duty to rip the rose-tinted glasses off the delusional and show them exactly how miserable their lives really are. Never without an absurdist’s dark sense of humor, she is an ace at role-playing. She is by turns an operatic soprano, a charming little girl, a guttural demon, a siren seductress, a transvestite monk, sometimes within a single song. Vollman also plays bass guitar, clarinets, keyboards and other assorted devices, and supplies the lyrics for Non Credo’s evocative textures.

 

Aside from Non Credo, Vollman has been involved in several musical projects and bands in her hometown of Los Angeles. She was a member of the improvising chamber ensemble Fat And Fucked Up, she toured and recorded with Kid Congo Powers (ex-Cramps) band Congo Norvell, performed frequently with musical scavengers Stay Home, recorded with slop-rockers Thelonious Monster and sang with micro-tonalist Kraig Grady. She is active in the LA improv scene, having worked with violinist Jeff Gauthier and her vocal duet with Kaoru, Punishment Cookies. Vollman has also produced New Music concerts with a slant towards female performers, her latest being “Women Should Be Seen And Not Heard” in June 2000. Despite being a restless student, she studied with legendary clarinetist John Carter. She has written music for film and dance pieces, and is working on a project involving musical accompaniment to her drawings and illustrations.
 

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