Khaela Maricich

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The Blow
Background information
Origin	Portland, Oregon United States
Genre(s)	Lo-fi Electro
Years active	2001 – present
Label(s)	K Records (US) Tomlab (Europe) Popfrenzy (Australia)
Website	Official site
Members
Khaela Maricich Jona Bechtolt

Khaela Maricich is a K Records pop musician, visual artist, and performer. She is formerly of the band The Microphones. For the most part she has been the sole member of her "group" The Blow; however since 2004 she has been working collaboratively with Jona Bechtolt. Maricich has released four albums and two EPs, using and combining genres that include folk and electronic music. She creates operatic performance pieces using the conversational style of popular music. She has toured the United States extensively performing her monologue-based solo opera, "Blue Sky versus Night Sky", as well as giving traditional concerts of dance-party music with her band.

She has held a number of exhibitions of drawings and illuminated paper sculptures in Seattle, Olympia, and Portland. A native of Queen Anne Hill, Maricich spent an incubative decade in Olympia, but recently moved to Portland, in order to be the artist-in-residence at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art.

Maricich was also previously known as Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano. Her album Everyday Examples of Humans Facing Straight into the Blow was originally released under this name with hand silk-screened and letter pressed packaging. It was subsequently re-released in 2004 by "The Blow" with different packaging and slightly modified song titles.

1 Discography
2 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Look for It in the Sky It Will Always Be There (2001, Knw-Yr-Own) released as "Khaela Maricich"
Everyday Examples of Humans Facing Straight into the Blow (2001, 2004 K Records) originally released under the name “Get the hell out of the way of the volcano"
Bonus Album ep (2002, K Records)
The Concussive Caress (2003, K Records)
Poor Aim:Love Songs ep (2005, Slender Means Society/States Rights Records)
Paper Television (2006, K Records)

[edit] Singles

Alphabet Series K 7"(2006, Tomlab)

[edit] Compilations

Yoyo a Go Go (1997, Yoyo) A compilation of live performances from various artists at the Yoyo A Gogo music festival. Khaela performs "A Girl in the Sky" with Jean Kliese.
Projector (1998, Yoyo) Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano "Bagfull of Spiders."
Remote Wing (2001,Knw-Yr-Own), an alternate version of "That Boy Makes me Want Things" from Everyday Examples…, retitled simply "That Boy".
Shipwreck Day (2002,Knw-Yr-Own), a cover of the Little Wings’ "Faith Children".
Own Zone (2004, States Rights Records), remix of “Hey Boy”.
Invisible Shield(2004, K Records), "The Democracy of Small Things"
Trust in Sirens (2005,Knw-Yr-Own), a cover of Devo's "Snowball"
2005 PDX Pop Now! (2005, PDX Pop), "Pile of Gold"
Free The Bird (2005, Knw-Yr-Own), "The Sky Opened Wide Like The Tide (Lucky Dragons New Age Power Mix)"
2006 PDX Pop Now! (2006, PDX Pop), "Babay (Eat a Critter, Feel its Wrath)"
"Yeti #4" (2006, Yeti Publishing), "Get Around"