offramp Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 interesting music promotions present:ALELA DIANE + SIMONE WHITE + THE KITCHEN CYNICSWednesday 8th AugustThe Tunnels Room 2, Carnegies Brae, Aberdeen, AB10 1BF. (01224) 211121Doors 8pm Entry 5www.thetunnels.co.ukwww.myspace.com/interestingmusicALELA DIANEPortland, Oregon singer songwriter Alela Diane hails from the deep woods and winding rivers of Northern California Gold Rush town Nevada City. Alela grew up singing songs with her parents (both musicians) and performing in the school choir and, during a stay in San Francisco in 2003, she began teaching herself guitar and writing her first songs, blending tense, trance-like arpeggios, with warm, thick vocals and meditative lyrics about family and nature. Her debut album The Pirates Gospel is a powerful document of personal re-evaluation and renewal set against the backdrop of generations past and future, mothers and fathers, life, death, and birth. Alela Diane's dread-filled song The Rifle finds a powerful metaphor for feminine sexuality in a story of home invasion, effectively rewriting Neil Young's Powderfinger from the daughter's perspective. Over a precisely plucked guitar that sounds both solemn and skittish, her grave intonations and the ominous backing vocals imply violence occurring just beyond her words." [Pitchfork]Accompanied mostly by her acoustic guitar, Alela Diane sings stark, ghostly folk. Shes already flaunting a large, lived-in growl flavoured by antediluvian blues and jazz inflections." [spin]www.myspace.com/alelamusicwww.aleladiane.comwww.myspace.com/namesrecordsSIMONE WHITEBorn in Hawaii, grew up in California, played guitar in Seattle, photographed bands in London, learned to fingerpick in New York, followed her heart back out west. Straight outta Venice, LASimone White delicately lays her beautiful voice over rich layers of swirling rhythm and crafty guitar patterns. Her debut album I am the man (Honest Jons / EMI) is quietly drawing comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Isobel Campbell and Cat Power - deep with emotion, rich with integrity and bubbles with bittersweet excitement that will soothe the soul and relax the nerves."For those bewitched by the posthumous small-hours voice of Karen Dalton, here is a living echo of that still, small, intensely concentrated spirit - an intimate prettiness concealing within the rosebud the thorns of subtly articulated political protest and the warped, eerie gaze on human weakness that has been The Velvet Underground's legacy to the modern folk idiom." [Mojo]www.myspace.com/simonewhitewww.simonewhite.comwww.honestjons.comTHE KITCHEN CYNICSLocal 'outsider folk' songwriter, the Kitchen Cynics fades gracelessly towards old age, but looks back happily on the few high points of his belated career...being played on the John Peel show, doing three radio sessions for New York's WFMU, and playing live with Tom Rapp of Pearl's Before Swine. See him soon, before his batteries go totally flat.www.myspace.com/kitchencynicshttp://www.singersong.homestead.com/TheKitchenCynics.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted July 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2007 here's what The Guardian said recenty about Alela...Alela Diane has made your album of the year, you just haven't heard it yet. But you will! Born to musician (trans: hippy) parents in a rural idyll in northern California, she sang in the school choir, taught herself guitar and writes songs about family and nature and sweet lavender. Inhabiting a bucolic corner of Joanna Newsom's new folk paradise, Diane has this yearn in her voice that reaches back through Tim Buckley's sensual world to the ruined soul of Hank Williams. And she plays banjo. Is there a sexier image in the world than a young woman playing a banjo? No. The end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 I think an old man playing a wee guitar is a sexy image, too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 I think an old man playing a wee guitar is a sexy image, too True dat.I think the two lovely young ladies playing this gig won't know what's hit them...Would it aid promotion of the event if I posted hot pictures of all artists? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 first up...hottie #1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alan Cynic Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 True dat.I think the two lovely young ladies playing this gig won't know what's hit them...Would it aid promotion of the event if I posted hot pictures of all artists? I didn't know I was supposed to hit them!?(o_OThat's an old photo....I'm even more decrepit now (but with a certain grizzled charm......it was given to me by an old traveller...kind of looks like a plug on a chain, but holds mystical powers, apparently) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted July 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 I'm even more decrepit nowso you are... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted July 12, 2007 Report Share Posted July 12, 2007 Fortunately I just see a white square with a red cross in it. If it's the one of me in the bath with the goat and the baby ferret...I'd just like to say I regret the incident, in retrospect:up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted August 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 bump for next Wednesday night...first imp gig back after our wee break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chilli Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 i'm also hearing some Emiliani Torrini on the Beep Beep SongThis new talent is worth the entrance fee alone..........."The songs drift dreamily between bittersweet romance, whimsy and the political while White's breathy, restful tones and Mark Nevers's muted production give everything a balmy unified feel of the rarest kind." -- **** Q Magazine--"The Beep Beep Song" is brilliant whimsy...White sings something like Astrud Gilberto... The languor conceals a sharp, politicized observer of the American wasteland, and White's songs counter The Man's depredations with becalmed cool." --No Depression--"Coming out of seemingly nowhere, is Simone White, with a chameleon of a voice that changes shades and colors so naturally as to send you scratching the back of your mind trying to figure out where to place it." --LUNAPARK6--"Simone White's indie-folk quasi-protest song, "American War," is witty, provocative, and effective without being angry or disillusioned." --Billboard--"A late-night melancholy gem." --Bucketfull of Brains--"Simone White's debut album is a delightful treat. The moment that "America In '54" comes on your stereo, you'll think that Joni Mitchell has been re-incarnated...Sincere is the perfect word for this consistent first release. Appropriate for any season, this will appeal to fans of classic singer/songwriters, and also modern female artists such as Cat Power." --liepaper.com--"sensitive, strangely soulful, bizarre..." --Boog City-- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted August 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 This is tomorrow... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 I'm doing 2 new songs...one about a bird trying to hatch a precious stone, and one about my grandad being killed by a John Menzies van in the 1930s:up:There will be a few other newish ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted August 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 I'm doing 2 new songs...one about a bird trying to hatch a precious stone, and one about my grandad being killed by a John Menzies van in the 1930s:up:There will be a few other newish ones.TONIGHT! folks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 two very fine female singers on one bill, plus their dad (he he)seriously fine night in prospect for a mindnumbingly cheap entrance fee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trippingflags Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Alela Diane VideoGrrreat stuff on Wednsday night. Here's one track of Alela Diane's : Just kicking myself I never captured a song or two of Simones....that and i managed to miss the Kitchen Cynic once more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl PhD Posted August 12, 2007 Report Share Posted August 12, 2007 One of my favourite shows of the year - thanks to all concerned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted August 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 Grrreat stuff on Wednsday night. Here's one track of Alela Diane's : Just kicking myself I never captured a song or two of Simones....that and i managed to miss the Kitchen Cynic once more!nice one tf! cheers...I sent it to Alela and she's put it on her myspace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 15, 2007 Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 One of my favourite shows of the year - thanks to all concerned.It WAS good but I think the best is yet to come! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda Strong Posted August 15, 2007 Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 sotl...haha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted August 15, 2007 Report Share Posted August 15, 2007 Don't build up your hopes just yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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