Terry Poison
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Terry Poison is an Israeli electro
Electro (music)
Electro is a genre of electronic dance music directly influenced by the use of TR-808 drum machines, Moog keytar synthesizers and funk sampling...

 band. It consists of Louise Kahn (lead vocals, guitar), Anna Landesman (bass) and Idan 'Bruno' Grife (main producer, computers and synth guitar). Poison herself is a fictional character and is not a member of the band.

Overview

Forming in 2003 as the riot grrl duo "Cherry Poison", Israeli-Norse singer Louise Kahn and journalist Noga Netzer had performed only one show before meeting producer Idan "Bruno" Grife.

Now renowned "Terry Poison", Grife had revamped their music to electroclash, and added his then-protégé Sivan "Petite" Meller to the lineup.

Terry Poison had performed extensively in Israel during most of 2004-05 and had released two of their tracks in the 2004 compilation of pioneering Israeli electroclash
Electroclash
Electroclash is a style of music that fuses New Wave and electronic dance music. It emerged in New York and Detroit in the later 1990s, pioneered by acts including I-F and those associated with Gerald Donald, and is associated with acts including Peaches, Adult, and Fischerspooner...

 label "FUT*RE Records" (now defunct).

More personnel changes followed as in the ending of 2005 Netzer had left the band, to be replaced by former-model Gili Sa`ar, who was functioned as the band bass player.

Since 2006, Terry Poison's new lineup is touring extensively throughout Europe, have recorded the successful theme song of Israeli TV program "Life According To Y" (with the lyrics of the poet Roy Arad
Roy Arad
Roy "Chicky" Arad is an Israeli poet, singer, script-writer and artist.-Poetry:Arad has published three books. In his first book, “The Nigger”, he formed a style that he called "Kimo" and defined as "a Hebrew adaptation of the Japanese Haiku": it consists of three lines of 10, 7, and 6 syllables...

), released an independent MP3
MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

-based EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

, and have lately been signed to French label "Ekler'O'Shock" to release their debut vinyl EP "Buzz On The Bell" (2007).

Reinforced with another guitarist, Anna, Terry Poison's new live lineup had performed for more than 5000 audience at the Rock en Seine music festival on August 2007.

With Gili Sa'ar playing a role in the Israeli telenovela
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

"Dolls", the band's song "Buzz On The Bell" has been selected as the show's theme song.

Terry Poison were chosen to warm up Depeche Mode in their first Israeli appearance in Ramat-Gan stadium, on May 10, 2009.

The Debut album "Terry Poison" was released in Israel on Phonokol records, 3 of the albums tracks made it number 3 and 1 on all national radio charts.

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