Johanna Warren, Eleanor Murray
JOHANNA WARREN
ELEANOR MURRAY
Sunday, April 17
JOHANNA WARREN
An intuitively self-taught guitarist, Johanna Warren channels powerful songs in weird time signatures and melancholic open tunings, weaving adept finger-picking with acrobatic vocal lines and carefully crafted poetry. Approaching music as a potent healing modality, Warren cultivates and honors the physically healing properties of sound and the spiritually healing powers of artistic expression. She has performed and recorded with Iron & Wine, Natalie Merchant, and Jesca Hoop, among others.
LINKS
http://johannawarren.com
https://johannawarren.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/johannawarrenmusic
SELECTED PRESS
One of “4 Singer-Songwriters You Need to Know in 2015” – Rolling Stone Magazine
One of the 50 Best New Bands of 2015 – Stereogum
Among the “Best Albums of 2015” – The Portable Infinite
“Like [Elliott] Smith, she’s interested in the depths of human relationships and the forces that can poison them unseen. She doesn’t lament the dissolution of romances and friendships, but attacks it like a puzzle.” –Consequence of Sound
“…hauntingly sorrowful and beautifully optimistic” – Guild Guitars
One of the “50 Best Albums of 2015 So Far” –Stereogum (June 2015)
“More than an average ‘singer-songwriter’ turning out pretty by-the-numbers folk tunes, her music is sparse and complex all at once and her words are often colored with deeply vivid spiritual and mystical imagery”- The 405
“it is clear that for Warren the act of creativity and spiritual healing are one and the same, and if that’s the case then nūmūn, an album as bewitching as it is ambitious, is certainly good for what ails you.” –Folk Radio UK
“Rich in sensual language and meditative honesty” –Impose Magazine
“…like thin white drapes letting dusty sun rays beam through.” –CMJ
One of the “Best Portland Albums of 2015” – Oregon Live
“Warren captures the serenity of feeling relatively insignificant with a wide, awestruck lens.” – Willamette Week
ELEANOR MURRAY:
BIO
Eleanor Murray has spent the last nine years playing and recording music out of the northwest part of the United States. Her latest album, Bury Me Into the Mtn, finds Murray exploring work that is markedly different from any that has come before. Bury Me Into the Mtn's chord progressions, rhythms and melodies draw as much from Appalachia as they do from jazz. Recorded in a renovated church during a windstorm with members of Mount Eerie serving as her backing band, its sonic landscape is completely its own. Her five albums and hundreds of live shows have established her as a prolific force in indie folk music, while along the way gathering a dedicated fan base and sharing the stage with artists such as Tune-yards, Mountain Man, Diane Cluck, and Kimya Dawson. Her side projects extend this range even further, with the haunting post rock of AANTARCTICAA, the bluegrass swing of Tattered Dress, and the electro-pop production of Cavegreen.
LINKS
http://eleanormurray.com/
https://eleanormurray.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/eleanormurraymusic/
SELECTED PRESS
“…one of our best “unknown” musicians.” – Tiny Mix Tapes
“One moment you think you have Eleanor Murray figured out, but then she shows you that she’s not an easy catch. You cannot draw a square around her and call it good – she is undefinable.” – Fensepost
“Eleanor Murray is impossibly good…To call her folky would be undercutting the beauty of what she does.” – SSG Music
“Ms. Murray is bound for greatness; anyone who sees her play live is, pretty instantly, a fan.” – Letters With Mixtapes
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