--- title: Lucibel Crater description: Lucibel Crater, the Brooklyn rock and electronic trio Sarth Calhoun founded in 2005 with Leah Coloff and Paul Chuffo, and its 2008 record The Family Album. url: https://www.sarth.net/conspiracies/lucibel-crater/ facet: dream credit: Sarth Calhoun founded Lucibel Crater in 2005 and plays keys, bass, loops, Kyma and Continuum Fingerboard in it, with Leah Coloff, cello and voice, and Paul Chuffo, drums. On *Miracles*, 2007, and *The Family Album*, 2008. author: Sarth Calhoun --- [Conspiracies](/conspiracies/) / Lucibel Crater Conspiracy · Dream # Lucibel Crater Lucibel Crater is a rock and electronic trio from Brooklyn. I founded it in 2005 and play keys, bass, loops, [Kyma and the Continuum Fingerboard](/devices/). [Leah Coloff](/conspirators/leah-coloff/) fronts the band on cello and voice, and [Paul Chuffo](/conspirators/paul-chuffo/) plays drums. The trio released an EP, [*Miracles*](/transmissions/miracles/), in 2007, and a full-length, [*The Family Album*](/transmissions/the-family-album/), in 2008. [Lou Reed](/conspirators/lou-reed/) plays guitar on “Threadbare Funeral,” and [Ulrich Krieger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Krieger) has sat in on saxophone at live shows. ![Lucibel Crater, inside gatefold panel.](/images/lucibel-crater-inside-panel.jpg) Inside gatefold, The Family Album. ![Lucibel Crater outdoors in Brooklyn, black and white: Paul Chuffo, Sarth Calhoun, Leah Coloff.](/images/l1000209.jpg) Lucibel Crater: Paul Chuffo, Sarth Calhoun, Leah Coloff. ## How I described the band > The rock/electronic group Sarth always dreamed he could have but never realized he would is called Lucibel Crater. > > Often described as “cubist,” this trio has been called “Bjork crossed with the White Stripes” and is fronted by singer/songwriter/cellist Leah Coloff, who has recorded for artists ranging from [Dr. John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._John) to [Ziggy Marley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggy_Marley) to [Joel Thome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Thome) to [David Bowie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie), as well as receiving critical praise and radio play for her solo album “Dark Sweet Heart.” ## What a show was > Lucibel Crater uses experimental methods to create music with familiar structure and grooves; A typical Lucibel Crater show might begin by meticulous live looping of syncopated drum parts, build into a crescendo of noise, then dissolve and coalesce into a catchy melody sung over a Brooklyn-style groove. > > Lucibel Crater is a trio which is collapsing boundaries and discovering new polarities to exploit. Their live shows are a journey, you get on the road at the beginning and at the end you exit in a whole new place. And perhaps you never return ... ![Lucibel Crater on stage: Sarth Calhoun at keyboards and laptop, Leah Coloff on cello, Paul Chuffo on drums.](/images/mwm-5991.jpg) Lucibel Crater on stage: Sarth Calhoun, Leah Coloff, Paul Chuffo. [Embedded player](https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/5GWIntdZRNl8zc9rAsIrKD) ## *The Family Album* The band’s only full-length came out in 2008, ten songs, mixed by [Bryce Goggin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_Goggin). It has [its own page](/transmissions/the-family-album/) and is [on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/5GWIntdZRNl8zc9rAsIrKD). The [Björk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rk) and [White Stripes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Stripes) comparison comes from *Urban* in Italy, February 2009, where Simone Tempia wrote: Ci si può sentire qualcosa di Björk e magari dei White Stripes. Ma la verità è che il loro sound è unico e difficilmente incasellabile. [Buzzbin Magazine](https://web.archive.org/web/20110621012417/http://www.buzzbinmagazine.com/home/2008/07/02/lucibel-crater-the-family-album/) reviewed the record in July 2008. [Ross Christopher at awaken music](http://awakenmusic.blogspot.com/2009/04/family-album-lucibel-crater.html) gave it five stars in April 2009 and picked out “Where You Are,” “There was a Time” and “Threadbare Funeral.” [Lost in Sound](http://lostinsound.org/lucibel-crater-not-your-dads-jazz/) interviewed the band in February 2010. More of the press is on [Rumors](/rumors/). ## On stage The dates that survive in the record start at the Knitting Factory in February 2007 and run through FatBaby, the Delancey, a Berlin night at RAW-Tempel in November 2008, and the Jazzwelten festival in Dresden in 2010. Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger once joined the band at Joe’s Pub for “Masticate,” which I called a [Metal Machine Trio](/conspiracies/metal-machine-trio/) sub-unit. The full list is on [Sightings](/sightings/). The credit: Sarth Calhoun founded Lucibel Crater in 2005 and plays keys, bass, loops, Kyma and Continuum Fingerboard in it, with Leah Coloff, cello and voice, and Paul Chuffo, drums. On *Miracles*, 2007, and *The Family Album*, 2008. > Lucibel Crater surprise us with a schizoid, unpredictable sound made of both live improvisations and thoughtful studio recordings. > > Simone Tempia, Vogue Italia, 2009 My account of the band is from the Lucibel Crater page of my old WordPress site, recovered from the Wayback Machine.