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Simona Castricum | |
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 Simona Castricum, playing live | |
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| Born | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Website | simonacastricum |
Simona Castricum is a singer, songwriter, producer, DJ and designer from Melbourne, Australia.
She has stated that her biographical song writing is influenced by her life as a transgender woman, both openly and closeted.[1] Musically, she has said that her influences have come from interactions between electronic and shoegaze genres and cites bands like Depeche Mode,[2] New Order, My Bloody Valentine, Curve (band) and both Detroit techno and Belgian New Beat[3] genres as influences.
Live, Harry Hughes of The Music, says she, "commands... attention with her pseudo-militaristic movements and bold style".[4]
She has previously recorded under the names Simona Kapitolina and Fluorescent and is a member of synth rock outfit Ana Nicole. Simona was also the founder of the influential Melbourne record label Girls Who Smoke Poke and club night The Shock of The New.[5]
As a writer, Simona Castricum has contributed articles to publications such as Vice Magazine and Thump on visibility and access for queer and transgender performers.[6][7][8] She has also had personal memoirs published in The Guardian[9] and Archer Magazine.[10]
Graduating from RMIT University with a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) in 2001, Simona was an exhibition designer at the Jewish Museum of Australia[11] and was a graphic designer for influential Melbourne designers Tom Kovac[12] and ARM Architecture.[13]
Discography
| As Fluorescent[14] | |
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| Albums | Singles |
| Post Nuclear (2005) | Cattle Brand (2006) EP |
| Winter(2008) | Unfamiliar (2009) |
| With Ana Nicole[15] | |
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| Albums | Singles |
| Twinkie (2010) | Mainlining (2011) |
| As Simona Kapitolina and/or Simona Castricum[16] | |
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| Albums | Singles |
| Trouble In Utopia (2013) | Sand (2013) |
| Exotic Ladies of Birobidzahn (2014) | Still (2014) |
| Trigger Warning #40 (2016) | Own (2015) |
| No Allegiance (2015) | |
| Ennis House Pool (2015) | |
References
- ^ Daniel, Kane (August 1, 2014). "Caught Between the Exotic and the Grotesque". THUMP. Vice. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Hughes, Harry (August 1, 2014). "Donny Benet, Electric Sea Spider, Simon TK, Simona Kapitolina - Ferdydurke". The Music. The Music. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ "TECHNOPHILIA – SIMONA KAPITOLINA". Poncho. February 16, 2015. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Hughes, Harry (1 August 2014). "Donny Benet, Electric Sea Spider, Simon TK, Simona Kapitolina - Ferdydurke". The Music. The Music. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
- ^ Daniel, Kane (August 1, 2014). "Caught Between the Exotic and the Grotesque". THUMP. Vice. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Kapitolina, Simona (February 3, 2015). "Pride Is The Next Stage: Midsumma Represent". THUMP. Vice. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Kapitolina, Simona (June 15, 2015). "I'm Proud of Being Trans, and I Don't Care About Passing". Vice. Vice. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Mendelson, Winter. "Interview with Girls Who Smoke Poke, Melbourne-based Record Label that supports LGBTQI musicians". Posture. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
- ^ Castricum, Simona (November 19, 2015). "A letter to everything I've lost and found". Guardian. Guardian. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ^ "Archer Magazine". Archer. December 3, 2015. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ^ "Mameloshn – How Yiddish Made a Home in Melbourne" (PDF). Jewish Museum of Australia. July 10, 2011. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ^ Kovac, Tom (2014). "The State of the Art of Practice in Tom Kovac's Architecture of the Real and Virtual" (PDF). RMIT. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ^ Critchley, Cheryl (May 17, 2013). "Stopping all design stations". The Weekly Review. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ^ "Fluorescent". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
- ^ "Ana Nicole". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-08-06.
- ^ "Simona Kapitolina". Discogs. Retrieved 2015-08-06.