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“The Silver Lake Chorus formed in the winter of 2010 through word of mouth, flyers (“can you or anyone you know sing tenor?”) and Facebook. Auditions pared 60 hopeful singers down to a choir of 25 young men and women, many of whom had previous choral experience and most of whom actually reside in Silver Lake and Echo Park.
Founded by Sam Rader and led by choral director Mikey Wells, the group has found a de facto leader in Australian singer/songwriter and longstanding music industry figure Ben Lee, who has become a sort of spiritual shephard for the choir as the executive producer of their debut album and soon to be self-released EP Wreckage, out September 18.
What’s more, the Chorus is currently recording material written especially for them by a host of artists you know including Bon Iver, Beck, Sia, Of Montreal, Tegan and Sara, The Bird and the Bee, Aimee Mann, and Lee himself. Clearly this isn’t your typical group of hipsters getting together to record Bon Jovi covers in jenky harmony before hitting the bar on a Friday night.”
