The Sills (CD Release Party) w/ The Old Sewing Machine - $6

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Sills new self-titled CD marries the city and the country with just a touch of skid row. This first release for the six local musicians has a strange genre-bending sound full of Gospel turned road house, Folk dressed up as Jazz standards and barely concealing a tainted gypsy ancestry. Just when \"Stars in Your Eyes\" gets you feeling all wholesome and endearing it turns into a stalkers daydream. Blair Clark\'s words and music interpreted by the groups eclectic tastes and made respectable by Claire Kia\'s all grown up vocal style lead you on a wild ride through town, down back alleys and then dumps you out somewhere in the country. Recorded in town at The Sound Garden Studio the CD is down home and up town, local, regional, and universal.

Old Sewing Machine
This acoustically based duo blends roots of folk, pop, and blues to form simple sounds and words woven without cause or abandonment.