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Dragonette By: Adam Grant Dragonette Music Video - I Get Around For Dragonette, love really came first. Successful artists in their own right prior to the launch of this electro-pop quartet, Martina Sorbara and Dan Kurtz found each other intimately long before they found themselves in the studio together. Sorbara as a solo act and Kurtz as a member of electronica group The New Deal, spent much time touring the same festival circuit, as fate eventually began to weave its magic. 
In Ottawa their pictures would appear on the same page within a newspaper, and as they rolled into Halifax separately for a “super-rock” festival, Sorbara would finally come into contact with Kurtz who had offered to get her wasted, after all of the booze from her backstage space suspiciously went missing. Sparks flew immediately, and as Sorbara recalls, “first we didn’t know each other, and then we were living together.” Soon enough the couple would share musical ideas while playing house, thus leading to a marriage, and the creation of Dragonette. “We do our best, but it’s very difficult,” says Sorbara about the challenge of separating business from her personal relationship with Kurtz. “It hasn’t caused any major problems, but the big difficulty with this is that if you don’t control it, it can be business all of the time, and you realize that you haven’t had sex in a month – not really, that doesn’t happen. “As good as it is to have a loved one to tour with and work with it has a downside of not being able to come home and leave everything at the office and just to have a husband, or for Dan to have a wife.” 
With Sorbara tackling vocals, Kurtz handling bass, guitar and keyboards, the two would eventually round out the group with the addition of Will Stapleton on guitar and Joel Stouffer on drums. Soon enough in 2005, their self-titled EP would be released, but it is 2007’s Galore LP – released through Universal Music – that should get Dragonette further exposed to the masses. The album itself is filled with glorious pop hooks, a wonderful array of provocative lyricisms and electronic rhythms that keep the tracks moving at a steady, intriguing pace. In spite of this though, what a lot of folks are zoning in on these days almost more than anything else is Dragonette’s unwillingness to shy away from both sexual imagery and lustful word play. “It’s important to me to be true to myself and not say something that I am going to regret later, but beyond that, I don’t think that there’s anything that I could say that would offend anybody that I care about offending,” feels Sorbara. “I think the only people who could possibly be offended by any of my songs are people who I don’t care to be best friends with in the future. I think people who don’t get it, don’t need to get it. “If sex is the only thing that people are getting off of us, then I would definitely want to flush that out and make sure that there is something else coming across, because that’s not what we’re trying to do,” she adds. “Maybe it’s because it’s me and three boys – because there are not many instances of that. So the connotation is that I’m a slut as opposed to Britney Spears just being a solo artist – it’s different.” For more information on Dragonette, and to check out some of their tracks, please visit http://www.myspace.com/dragonetteband |
