Lapsley - Through Water - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

At the age of 16, Alysson Light, born and raised in Chapel Hill, is prodigious singer/songwriter. She started piano at age 9, cello at 12, and guitar only recently. She's been singing since she was 9 months old! Her first musical mentor (beginning at age 5) was her grandmother, a piano teacher and former singer with the famous choral director, Robert Shaw. Alysson wrote her first piano piece at age 10 and, last year, started writing several songs a month. She now has two CDs produced in her home studio. The first CD, 'Softly Fading Into Silence', is a cover album featuring the works of Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Natalie Merchant and Paula Cole. The second CD, titled 'Water' featured here, is entirely original works written, sung and played by Alysson herself. Many of the songs on 'Water' were inspired by Alysson's year spent in Utah in 1999-2000, where the dry climate of the high desert left her dreaming of the ocean ('Underwater') and showery days ('Rain') of her North Carolina home. Her most popular songs include 'Liquid Eyes' and 'Minna', both with a mysterious, poetic imagery that is supported by an unusual musical backdrop. Alysson's vocal style is amazingly mature, and the songs move the listener with her emotions and dynamics. 'Liquid Eyes' was number 1 for many weeks in North Carolina on MP3, and was #13 in the World on MP3 in the very competitive Acoustic Rock Genre!

Brigid Mae Power paints expansive songs that are effortless, hypnotic and folk-oriented like Judee Sill, Bill Callahan and Sharon Van Etten. The third album from the celebrated singer/songwriter, 'Head Above The Water' is a coming of age opus featuring a ground-breaking amalgamation of traditional folk and country - an engaging blend of strings, bouzouki, piano and Power's distinctive vocal make this an achingly beautiful body of work.Recorded in analogue studio The Green Door in Glasgow with Alasdair Roberts co-producing alongside Brigid and Peter Broderick. It's a continuing tale of everyday survival; more diverse, different, a bigger canvas, with broader brushstrokes...Country and traditional folk rub shoulders, making for a juxtaposition of threads, with added instrumentation from five musicians lured into the studio to provide larger dynamics.InchPower meditates on the dichotomy that's always existed in her work, melding atmospheric bliss and stark desperation.Inch PitchforkInchPower invokes the elements, either in contrast to internal weather or in sympathy with it.Inch The Guardian.InchHaunting and hauntedInch (The Line Of Best Fit), 'Head Above The Water' continues in that vein becoming more ethereal, more personal and even more alluring.After two lauded albums for Tompkins Square, Brigid Mae Power releases her new album on 5th June via Fire Records.Side AA1 On A City NightA2 Wearing Red That EveA3Wedding Of A FriendA4 Not Yours To OwnA5 I Was Named After YouSide BB6 We Weren't SureB7 You Have A Quiet PowerB8 I Had To Keep My Circle SmallB9 The BlacksmithB10 Head Above The Water

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