Lenchantin and Blakeslee met in Chicago, during the strange (and uncharacteristically high-profile) phase in her career when she joined the Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin, Chavez's Matt Sweeney and Slint's David Pajo in the doomed Zwan project. Before that, between 1999 and 2002, she was recruited by Tool's Maynard James Keenan for A Perfect Circle.
"A Perfect Circle did a tour with Smashing Pumpkins and then Billy Corgan thought I was good. I ran into him at a birthday party and said hello, and he was starting a new project with Matt Sweeney, the guitar player. I was very interested in Matt Sweeney — I loved his background and I think he's a music genius! He knows so much about music, and I thought, 'This is something I could do,' mainly because of Matt Sweeney. He is quite a musician and I knew there was something he could bring for me to further my love for music. I wanted to know more. I didn't want to be stuck in any way.
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"Matt Sweeney was the one that handed me Guy Blakeslee's Entrance demos. Just gave them to me and said, 'Tell me what you think about this.' He would always say that, and it was always extraordinary the things he would give to me. I was in music heaven, just hearing things that I never had been exposed to."
Lenchantin was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina, to two concert pianists. She was classically trained from a very early age. "My mother gave concerts while I was in the womb," she explained. "With my parents, it was very classically based — tangos as well. But mainly classical."
In the late 1970s, the Lenchantins emigrated to Los Angeles. While Paz and siblings Ana and Luciano continued to work on classical instruments — she would eventually attend the prestigious art school at Idyllwild — Paz also taught herself to play bass. "My mother had her father's guitar in the house and it was missing two strings, so I just turned it into a bass and played along to my favorite records— Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd. Nonstop." She also developed a love for jazz. "I started listening to a lot of John Coltrane and I would play violin to his saxophone."
Unbeknownst to her, this sui generis way of engaging with popular music as an improviser made her an ideal partner for the kinds of psychedelic explorations that Blakeslee's originally solo Entrance project was mutating into. "When I got his demos I thought he was just brilliant, incredible. The first Entrance record I worked on is called Wandering Stranger [2004], came out on Fat Possum. That's just Guy by himself with a drummer and I'm playing violin only. Then Prayer of Death [2006], and that came out first on our own and then on Tee Pee. By the third one we did together, Entrance became the Entrance Band. That one was through [Thurston Moore's label] Ecstatic Peace [2009]. That's when we started playing together, and then we moved here."
After a long, exhausting tour promoting the Ecstatic Peace album, the band started work on the new material they'll premiere at the Satellite. "We're kind of free agents," she said. "We want to maybe put it out ourselves. Times are different. The previous album was through Ecstatic Peace/Universal, so there were a couple of things that, personally, the approach is different."
The fundamental Entrance Band experience, though, remains the small-venue live gig. The band has done some live recordings that they sell at shows. "We put out actually our own bootlegs of the live shows. We really like the live sound of what we do. We're always doing something different."
For Lenchantin, one of the most memorable shows was here in L.A. at the Bootleg Theater, "because it was very electric, meaning fiery. It was so fiery I ended up jumping off the stage and doing stage dives. That was the last show of the tour that we started for the last record. We started it with Sonic Youth, we did a lot of touring, we were touring so much, and it was all of our friends we hadn't seen in a long time. It was fire. That's how I refer to it. I won't forget that show."
Fire. Yes, you want to catch the Entrance Band's Satellite residency to revel in the 21st-century take on the psychedelic blues. And yes, you'll be enthralled by the pyrotechnic energy Lenchantin can conjure out of a humble bass. But there's another, more contemplative side to her music that, in yet another unlikely turn of events, soon will make its way, almost subconsciously, into the world.
"My brother passed away a little while ago and it was a great shock to my family," she said, still tearing up a bit about the 2003 death of her brother Luciano. "So I couldn't stay around here and I went to Kentucky, and while I was there, just healing, you know, just playing the violin, I just thought I would learn to play fiddle. While I was there I was just recording myself, I didn't think too much about what I was doing. I wanted to continue playing music, but just not the bass at that moment. And then someone heard these tapes I had made, really liked them. A solo album came out, Songs for Luci [2006]. I sing too, but it's mainly violin, drums here and there. To tell you the truth, I didn't know what I was doing. I did whatever was natural to me. Never thinking no one was ever gonna hear it. I did it to keep my senses occupied and for my healing, to get on with that.
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Thurs. Mar. 31st, 7p and 8p, sign-up 7:30p (multi-genre/Blues/Cabaret/Classical/Nu-Stans/Jazz/Latin/Pop/R&B/Rock 'n Roll)JENNY RIEU & D'ANGELO JUSTICE "Shape of Cabaret to Come" and JAM... SHOWCASE: and OPEN MIC / JAM: "Companion Events" (vocalists/instrumentalists)DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood.
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Thurs. Mar. 31st, 7p and 8p, sign-up 7:30p (multi-genre/Cabaret/Nu-Stans/Jazz/Pop/R&B)JENNY RIEU & D'ANGELO JUSTICE "Shape of Cabaret to Come" and JAM... SHOWCASE: and OPEN MIC / JAM: "Companion Events" (vocalists/instrumentalists)DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood.
ROBERTA FREEMAN & Guests - Experienced w/ a plethora of legendary Rock bands. "Back-It-Up" and JAM... SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: "Companion Events" Thurs. Mar. 24th, 7p and 8p (sign-up 7:30p)Note - both "Companion Events" accompanied by D'z In-House Live Jazz Trio DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood
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Fri. Mar. 25th 7-10:30pm (multi-genre/Jazz/Nu-Stans · vocalists/instrumentalists)CHAMBERS, HERBERT & ELLIS w/ Karen HERNANDEZ (p) & Tony DUMAS (b) "The offspring w/ legendary surnames, vocalize their fathers' tradition in trio."DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ Duna Csárda 5820 Melrose Ave Hollywood
[Unlisted]ROBERTA FREEMAN - "Experienced w/ a plethora of legendary Rock bands."Guests - Monica REED, Sharon STANLEY - "Back-It-Up" and JAM... SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: "Companion Events" DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd. HollywoodMar. 24th, 7p and 8p (sign-up 7:30p)
[Unlisted]"St. Patty's Nite Partay" & JAM... Thurs. Mar. 17th, 7p & 8p (sign-up 7:30p)ROCKET CALCUTTA + "Guest Soloist" CARLOS GUITARLOS* SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: "Companion Events" DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood.
[Unlisted *]"Companion Events" Thursday Nights (multi-genre - instrumental/vocal)> SHOWCASE: Pro-Vocalist - ROCKET CALCUTTA - "A sky-rocketing crooner" *CARLOS GUITARLOS - Performs & promotes B-day weekend gigs between Events. > OPEN MIC / JAM: w/ You, other special guest, VIP & D'z In-House Trio.
[Unlisted Addendum]“Herstorical, patrons of contributive arts Renaissance” (amateur to Pro) SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: (both) w/ D'z In-House "Lady & Gentlemen" Live Jazz Trio; "Master" improv-accompanist/soloists; Karen HERNANDEZ - Music Director/piano & Tony DUMAS - bass · Ralph Penland - drums. "D" - Founder/Organizer/Reg. Host/vocal. FREE w/ Minimum: food/beverages. Patron of arts/event tips solicited. Pay2play or sing tips encouraged. Parking FREE
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CARLOS GUITARLOS' BIRTHDAY GIG: March 18th 7-10pm"The nostalgic & sentimental Señor Ayala graces us in one of his old hoods. The unpredictable hombre has been dazzling, choosing to open, doing the 1st set solo & then follows w/ an unscripted, multi-genre open-mic. A true artist & musician's musician. The "original article", an excellent opportunity to experience the legendary survivor." - the Jazz messenger, Deep Note
DOLORES PETERSEN PRESENTS: L.A. Acoustic Meetup Fridays @ Cafe Audrey 6701-B Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 90068 (entrance on Las Palmas, north off Hollywood Blvd. w/ parking lots adjacent) $5.00 "Special Guest Performer" contribution requested, performance tips encouraged & independently produced CDs for sale. Admission: FREE w/ Minimum: food/drink purchase. (please don't forget wait staff/servers gratuity)
[Unlisted] "St. Patty's Nite Partay" & JAM... Thurs. Mar. 17th, 7p & 8p (sign-up 7:30p)ROCKET CALCUTTA + "Guest Soloist" CARLOS GUITARLOS* SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: "Companion Events" DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood.
[Unlisted] "St. Patty's Nite Partay" & JAM... Thurs. Mar. 17th, 7p & 8p (sign-up 7:30p)ROCKET CALCUTTA + "Guest Soloist" CARLOS GUITARLOS* SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: "Companion Events" DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood.
"Mean Mistreater" by Grand Funk...play it at my wake...with a fine selection of home brews...preferably as dark as Mississippi mud.
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NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTHSTOMP OUT Women's Cancer! & JAM... Thursday, March 10thSHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: "Companion Events" 7p & 8p (sign-up 7:30p)DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. (details follows below)
[Unlisted]SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: Thursday, March 10thOngoing every Thursday Night; “A Herstorical, patrons of contributive arts Renaissance”"Companion Events" (instrumental/vocal - live, diverse, multi-genre, inter-active) > SHOWCASE: 7:00pm - Benefit: Pro-Vocalists - Mary Bogue & Al Timss + Guest Stars; Larry Davis, Marilyn Forrest, James Geralden, Kyle Hollingsworth & Dolores Petersen. To benefit the Revlon Run Walk ($10 donation) > OPEN MIC / JAM: 8:00pm (sign-up 7:30pm) w/ You, other special guest & VIP. Both "Companion Events" will feature D'z "steller" Trio w/ "Master" improv-accompanist/soloists; Karen HERNANDEZ - Music Director/piano & Tony DUMAS - bass, Ralph Penland - drums. "D" - Founder/Organizer/(Reg.)Host/vocal.
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DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood.FREE w/ Minimum: food/beverage purchases. Patron of arts/event tips solicited. Pay2play or sing tips encouraged. Parking FREE
[Unlisted Addendum]"Companion Events" (multi-genre - instrumental/vocal)Ongoing every Thursday Night; “A Herstorical, patrons of contributive arts Renaissance” > SHOWCASE: To benefit the Revlon Run Walk. STOMP OUT Women's Cancer! Guest Stars; Larry Davis, Marilyn Forrest, James Geralden, Kyle Hollingsworth & Dolores Petersen. ($10 benefit donation) > OPEN MIC / JAM: D'z "steller" Trio w/ "Master" improv-accompanist/soloists; Karen HERNANDEZ - Music Director/piano & Tony DUMAS - bass, Ralph Penland - drums. DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. FREE w/ Minimum: food/beverage purchases. Patron of arts/event tips solicited. Pay2play or sing tip encouraged. Parking FREE
[Unlisted]SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: Thursday, March 10thOngoing every Thursday Night; “A Herstorical, patrons of contributive arts Renaissance”"Companion Events" (instrumental/vocal - live, diverse, multi-genre, inter-active) > SHOWCASE: 7:00pm - Benefit: Pro-Vocalists - Mary Bogue & Al Timss + Guest Stars; Larry Davis, Marilyn Forrest, James Geralden, Kyle Hollingsworth & Dolores Petersen. To benefit the Revlon Run Walk ($10 benefit donation) > OPEN MIC / JAM: 8:00pm (sign-up 7:30pm) w/ You, other special guest & VIP. Both "Companion Events" will feature D'z "steller" Trio w/ "Master" improv-accompanist/soloists; Karen HERNANDEZ - Music Director/piano & Tony DUMAS - bass, Ralph Penland - drums. "D" - Founder/Organiger/(Reg.)Host/vocal. DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood. Admission FREE w/ Minimum.
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SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: Thursday, March 3rd> SHOWCASE: 7:00pm Pro-Vocalists - DURGA McBROOM-HUNTER & MONICA REED> OPEN MIC / JAM: 8:00pm (sign-up 7:30pm) w/ You, "Guest Soloist" JAVIER VERGARA Companion Events - feat. D'z In-House "T&T" Live Jazz Trio w/ Karen HERNANDEZ- Music Director/piano, Tony DUMAS - bass and drummer - Tony AUSTIN. "D"- Founder/Organizer/(Reg.) Host/vocal. DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood
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SHOWCASE and OPEN MIC / JAM: Companion Events (multi-genre - instrumental/vocal)Ongoing every Thursday Night; “A Herstorical, patrons of contributive arts Renaissance” > SHOWCASE: 7:00pm Pro-Vocalists - DURGA McBROOM-HUNTER & MONICA REED National Women's History Month - Two phenomenal women - "Sis'ta Sis'ta Got'ta Sing"> OPEN MIC / JAM: 8:00pm (sign-up 7:30pm) w/ You, "Guest Soloist" JAVIER VERGARA (frequent LA Weekly BRICK'S PICK - Brick Wahl, LA'sTop Jazz Journalist), other very special guests & VIP. (live, diverse & inter-active) Note - This week, both Events feature D'z "awesome" In-House "T&T" Live Jazz Trio w/ "super" improv-accompanist/soloists; Karen HERNANDEZ- Music Director/piano, Tony DUMAS - bass and drummer - Tony AUSTIN. "D"- Founder/Organizer/(Reg.) Host/vocal. DOLORES PETERSEN Presents: @ HSB&G 6122-6124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood
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