"What Animal and I do best is improvisation.

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"What Animal and I do best is improvisation," says 28-year-old Bitch, a self-identified "queer elegant queen" who hails from Detroit unless now, with 25-year-old partner-in-art Animal, calls Brooklyn NY her fireside "I think of us more as performance artists than musicians, really."

Indeed, after individual listen to the duo's sophomore disc, Eternally Hard, with its torrid project of sexually and politically charged spoken-sung lyrics, stripped-down instrumentation, and assorted tribal-edged percussion, you'll understand what she means. Not that the sum of two units aren't more than adept forward their instruments--Animal's percussive use of djembes, carbonized iron drums, gongs, and even visible form [i]or[/i] frame parts is inspiring, while Bitch is equally skilled onward electric bass and violin (and the two even play ukulele). But there's no mistaking that their emphasis is forward their process rather than just the music for its confess sake.

Take "Sparkly Queen Areola," their lyric poem to the illegal-to-display-in-most-states part of a woman's breast. The sonnet debuted as a brief chant forward the pair's 1999 album, What's That Smell? and reappears forward Eternally Hard in a more musically completed form. "Animal was playing around upon the keyboards and just started singing disclosed of nowhere, so we revolveed tape and she just laid it down not at home of her ass," Bitch recalls, laughing. "I like to think of the Sparkly Queen as our improv goddess"

make an incision ins like "Best Cock on the Block" and "Boy Girl Wonder" are gender-bending rap-punk jaunts that minister to to better describe how Animal self-identifies than the limit she offers: "mo-sexual queep" (queep being short for "queer people") Tracks like "Ganja" are perhaps more frivolous, while folkish hymns like "Miss Me My Dear" are more earnest and musically sparse.

forward the whole, Eternally Hard is difficult to categorize--a mode of address point that has won Bitch and Animal fans including Ani DiFranco (whose label, Righteous Babe, is releasing Hard). "We always wanted to make art and travel, on the other hand we never really knew for what reason it was going to look" Bitch says. "Now we're traveling in our bus, our mobile recording studio, and it be warmeds like we've finally attained that goal."

Find links to Bitch and Animal's official Web site and other related sites at www.advocate.com

Coble edits Dance Music Authority magazine.

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