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...
Andy Mulhern Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Alela Diane is really really good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted July 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Alela Diane is really really good I KNOW! Those Kitchen Cynics are all right as well. And Simone White is getting a load of backing from EMI just now.Should be another interesting night...8-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offramp Posted August 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 up ye go... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 I noticed Simone White got a whole page to herself in Mojo this month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilli Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 I noticed Simone White got a whole page to herself in Mojo this month.The Mojo article includes this quote at the bottom Alela Diane has made your album of the year, you just haven't heard it yet The GuardianHawaii born Simone White is a singer/songwriter whose predilection for mournful country-tinged Americana suggests reference points like Cat Power, or even Karen Dalton.I Am The Man, Whites second LP, was recorded with Mark Nevers (Will Oldham, Lambchop, Calexico, Lou Barlow, Tindersticks).I Am The Man is a summer soundtrack of charm and beguiling depths Mojo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chilli Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 @ a loose end tonight, Tunnels 2 has an evening of wonderful entertainment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
free tibet Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 @ a loose end tonight, Tunnels 2 has an evening of wonderful entertainmentwas indeed a wonderful evening,thanks to all involved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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