Fronted by a chilling femme fatale who holds command over the stage, THIS HISSES casts dirty spells with their blistering yet hauntingly pretty live show.

THIS HISSES is JULIA RYCKMAN, opera singer turned rock crooner on fuzz bass, PATRICK SHORT with his distinctive guitar twang & swagger, and JP PERRON, acrobatic bludgeoner of drums.

Faced with the demise of her all-girl rock band The Gorgon, Julia enlisted Patrick and JP to help her rework and record 4 of her songs that she didn’t want to lose. From the first rehearsal in early 2010, they realized they had incredible chemistry and those 4 songs turned into 8. Two months after that first rehearsal, the new trio had become THIS HISSES and they had just tracked their debut album “Surf Noir”. What had originally started as a one-off recording project became a serious band.

“Surf Noir” was released on Transistor 66 Recording Co in Summer 2011, a little over a year after it was tracked. The album took This Hisses on cross Canada tours that included the Manitoba Showcase at NXNE 2011. THIS HISSES, “one of Winnipeg’s most thrilling live acts” (Stylus) was also selected to perform at 2011′s TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival as well as the Gimli Icelandic Festival. “Surf Noir” met rave reviews in EXCLAIM and beyond and charted in the top 20 on campus and community stations across the country, reaching number 14 on Earshot’s top 50 chart for the week of August 30th, 2011.

The band has contributed a song to “Bloodstains Across the Prairies” 7″ vinyl compilation coming out on Alberta’s Mammoth Cave Records in spring 2012.