Being Visited is Lo Galluccio’s first solo CD, released on the Knitting Factory label in 1997.  The album is a potent brew of 4-track recordings of spoken and sung tracks and live band arrangements of original ballads and reharmonized jazz standards, like “You go to my Head.”  Set in the middle is a  mesmerizing cover of Lou Reed’s “Pale Blue Eyes” and all are bookended by “Queen of Mars” – a deceptively simple ballad about an invented character with “pink hair and sharp teeth” that serves as Lo’s nemesis and twin. See video on her Myspace page: www.myspace.com/lolagalluccio.)  Players on the record include: Miki Navazio (guitar), Brad Jones (upright bass), and Mike Evans (drums.)  Other players who contributed their virtuostic voices were Roy Nathanson (Jazz Passengers, soprano sax),  Chris Bowers (electric bass) and Khartik Swaminathan (electric violin.), plus added percussion.

An elegiac masterpiece of odd twists and turns, Galluccio worked for three years with her own 4-track arrangements, chanting tracks of poetry against her own beats, and then working on piano and guitar to make up simple arrangements of most of the songs that were more fully developed by bands headed by the likes of Knox Chandler and Dave Tronzo at clubs like the Knitting Factory and CBGB’s Gallery.  The silver thread running through the CD is Lo’s voice; child-like, magical and keen – you will be enchanted by the entire assembly.