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Lovers Dreamers Fighters
''Lovers Dreamers Fighters'' is the sixth solo studio album from Australian singer/songwriter Lo Carmen. It was released on 9 November 2017, by Chiquita Records, on limited edition translucent blue vinyl and digital platforms. It was recorded at the studios "Butcher Shoppe" & "Welcome to 1979" in Nashville, Tennessee in sessions over 2016 and 2017. Glide Magazine premiered the first single, "Last Thing I’ll Remember," noting its "gorgeous twangy pedal steel, sensual vocals, haunting guitar and harmonies, and a drumbeat that conveys a quiet loneliness," and stating "the album brings together sultry vintage soul and cosmic country sounds for something that is entirely unique. As a singer and songwriter, Carmen is simultaneously reflective and a storyteller." Follow up single, the duet 'Sometimes Its Hard' featuring Bonnie 'Prince' Billy was released 25 September 2017, premiering on Clash Magazine. The outlet called the track " divine," "a real charmer," and "a beautifully compo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lo Carmen
Lo Carmen (also known by her full name Loene Carmen prior to 2012) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, author and actress. Carmen has independently released seven solo albums in the Americana alt-country indie rock vein. In February 2022 her memoir ''Lovers Dreamers Fighters'' was published by HarperCollins. She has described the book as ‘more a cultural history than a memoir … It’s more a kind of love letter to all the musicians and women that have inspired me.’ Early life and career Carmen was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and raised amongst its 1970s music and art community. She is the daughter of rock-jazz-blues pianist Peter Head, founder of The Mount Lofty Rangers, and has a brother Josh Beagley, a guitarist, most notably with funk band Swoop. She began performing while accompanying her father and formed a country band, The Honky Tonk Angels, followed by garage girl band The White Trash Mamas, 'torch rock' 8 piece Automatic Cherry, and Slow Hand, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Swift
Emma Swift (born 15 December 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter. Before becoming a musician, she was a radio broadcaster, hosting Americana music show ''In the Pines'' on FBi Radio and ''Revelator'' on Double J at Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, Australia. Career Originally from Sydney, Australia, Swift moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 2013, to pursue a career in music. Swift recorded her self-titled debut EP in Nashville with producer Anne McCue. It was released in 2014 and was nominated for the ARIA Award for Best Country Album at the ARIA Music Awards of 2014. Jeff Glorfeld from ''Sydney Morning Herald'' said "Recorded in Nashville with a top-notch crew of session players, the mellow-voiced Sydney singer avoids the usual pitfalls and excesses by enlisting fellow Aussie expat Anne McCue, a fine singer in her own right, as producer. What they deliver is set of songs free of artifice, just heartfelt music." Swift has toured the US, Australia, UK, and Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coati Mundi (musician)
Andy Hernandez (born January 3, 1950), better known by his stage name Coati Mundi, is an American musician, percussionist, notably playing the vibraphone, and a member of Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, then of Kid Creole and the Coconuts. He scored the Top 40 UK hit "Me No Pop I" in 1981, just before the release of ''Tropical Gangsters''. He produced and arranged an album by "Don Armando Second Avenue Rhumba Band", which spurred the disco hit song "Deputy of Love". Early life Hernandez is a first-generation Puerto Rican who grew up in Spanish Harlem, New York City. As a young teenager, the first band he played and recorded with was called Eddie Hernandez & his Orchestra. He learned to play the vibes from George Rodriguez of The New Swing Sextet. Career Hernandez has worked with assorted musical groups and artists including Ralfi Pagan, Joe Bataan, Vernon Reid, N'Dea Davenport, Nona Hendryx, Tito Puente, Manny Oquendo & Conjunto Libre, Hall & Oates and Machito. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glendale, Los Angeles
Glendale is a city in the San Fernando Valley and Verdugo Mountains regions of Los Angeles County, California, United States. At the 2020 U.S. Census the population was 196,543, up from 191,719 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth-largest city in Los Angeles County and the 24th-largest city in California. It is located about north of downtown Los Angeles. Glendale lies in the Verdugo Mountains, and is a suburb in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The city is bordered to the northwest by the Sun Valley and Tujunga neighborhoods of Los Angeles; to the northeast by La Cañada Flintridge and the unincorporated area of La Crescenta; to the west by Burbank and Griffith Park; to the east by Eagle Rock and Pasadena; to the south by the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles; and to the southeast by Glassell Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Golden State, Ventura, Glendale, and Foothill freeways run through the city. History Spanish rule In 1798, José María Verdu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
