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Released: Nov 19, 2010
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  • Genre: Alternative / Folk / Psychedelic

    Location London, UK

    Profile Views: 21795

    Last Login: 8/23/2011

    Member Since 3/8/2008

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFkYW1kb25lbi5jb20=

    Record Label Dandyland / Songs & Whispers (Europe); Cargo (UK)

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    "A musical poet... RECOMMENDED" - London TimeOut ...."A British, more literary and less post-rock howling contemporary to Josh T Pearson" - Simon Tyers, ....The Line of Best Fit..... ...."A wordsmith of some note... sets his words in soundscapes that occasionaly verge on the classical".. - Fatea.. ...."This really is a fine album, rich in words and rather beautiful tunes".. - Organ magazine.. ....Poetry attired in the most sumptious music, firmly in the contemporary folk style (’Stumble On’ and ”Lullaby For Kaiya’ are supreme examples of this), with sound of the highest quality. It’s also a distinctive album that demands listening attention, and deserves to be heard... - ..Shakenstir.... Songwriter, poet, arranger, born in South Africa, currently resident in London, signed to a German label, on the road a lot, both alone and accompanied... Debut solo album getting a European release in November 2010. Very fond of receiving messages. Particularly fond of receiving messages from beautiful women, promoters, or combinations of the above... ..Full bio and contacts ..here.... ..Anything else you need to know, get in touch... ..Much love... ..

  • Members

    Contact ..Klarita.. at Kaparte Promotions for bookings.

  • Influences

    ....Authors, Playwrights and Poets.... ..Georg Buchner.. ..William Burroughs.. ..Samuel Taylor Coleridge.. ..Lawrence Durrell.. ..T.S. Eliot.. ..F. Scott Fitzgerald.. ..Ernest Hemingway.. ..Milan Kundera.. ..Federico Garcia Lorca.. ..Sylvia Plath.. ..William Shakespeare.. ..Tennessee Williams.. .... ....Music.... ..Cab Calloway.. ..Nick Cave.. ..Leonard Cohen.. ..Julian Cope.. ..Bob Dylan.. ..Jacques Brel.. ..Johnny Cash.. ..Joni Mitchell.. ..Lou Reed.. ..Love.. ..Josh T. Pearson.. ..Tom Waits.. ..Tori Amos.. .... ....Directors.. ..Michaelangelo Antonioni.. ..Werner Herzog.. ..Stanley Kubrick.. ..David Lynch.. ..Lars Von Trier.. ....

  • Sounds Like

    Praise for Immortality .... "Poetry attired in the most sumptuous music... a distinctive album that demands listening attention" - Shakenstir .... "Highly accomplished, poetically charged, mini-chamber orchestral brooding about love - it's mostly a breakup album underneath all the lyrical allusive qualities - and against modern nature." - Sweeping the Nation .... "This really is a fine album, rich in words and rather beautiful tunes, some of it simple acoustic wordy, some orchestral warmth, all very much about the words and the lines that keep on catching ears in their audacity of rope, words whistling on hard through the fallow and the one good eye gone from the horse and divorced from the tunes they’re marched from a conjurer’s hat. Just fine songs, alive with the coming of Spring’s good words and let it all come to you in the sigh of an hour . No remit to submit, you really have to listen for yourself, burn your own Icarus tongue numb with the depth and Leonard Cohen-like quality of a rather accomplished album..." - Organ magazine .... Criticism for Immortality .... "What a pile of depressing bollocks!" - Lily Le, Felix magazine .... Praise for As Our Parents Slowly Turn to Clay .... "An irked poet dealing with big themes of love, society, religion, politics... a remarkably assured achievement" - The Line of Best Fit .... "Un ascolto che si rivelerà intrappolato piacevolmente tra accordi acustici e riverberi sognanti. Questo disco è bellissimo perché “proviene da esperienze vissute in altri campi della vita” e tornate poi alla musica. Sembra di essere in un film. Stupendo." - Indie For Bunnies .... "A musical poet in the least pretentious of senses... veering from Cohen-type introspection to full on Nick Cave rock ‘n’ roll ranting... The character of Donen looms large over proceedings... it is a tribute to the production of the record that the music dominates, leaving the listener to discover the lyrics." - Lisa Holmes, New Noise .... "Like British Sea Power when they're being all triumphantly, mini-orchestrally expansive? You'll like this." - Sweeping The Nation

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"A British, more literary and less post-rock howling contemporary to Josh T Pearson" - Simon Tyers, The Line of Best Fit.

"A wordsmith of some note... sets his words in soundscapes that occasionaly verge on the classical" - Fatea

"This really is a fine album, rich in words and rather beautiful tunes" - Organ magazine

Poetry attired in the most sumptious music, firmly in the contemporary folk style (’Stumble On’ and ”Lullaby For Kaiya’ are supreme examples of this), with sound of the highest quality. It’s also a distinctive album that demands listening attention, and deserves to be heard. - Shakenstir



adam donen,dungeness,maldoror..

Songwriter, poet, arranger, born in South Africa, currently resident in London, signed to a German label, on the road a lot, both alone and accompanied.

Debut solo album getting a European release in November 2010

Very fond of receiving messages. Particularly fond of receiving messages from beautiful women, promoters, or combinations of the above.

Full bio and contacts here

Anything else you need to know, get in touch.

Much love.

....

Member Since:

March 08, 2008

Members:



Contact Klarita at Kaparte Promotions for bookings.

Influences:

Authors, Playwrights and Poets

Georg Buchner

William Burroughs

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lawrence Durrell

T.S. Eliot

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ernest Hemingway

Milan Kundera

Federico Garcia Lorca

Sylvia Plath

William Shakespeare

Tennessee Williams



Music

Cab Calloway

Nick Cave

Leonard Cohen

Julian Cope

Bob Dylan

Jacques Brel

Johnny Cash

Joni Mitchell

Lou Reed

Love

Josh T. Pearson

Tom Waits

Tori Amos



Directors

Michaelangelo Antonioni

Werner Herzog

Stanley Kubrick

David Lynch

Lars Von Trier



Sounds Like:

Praise for Immortality

"Poetry attired in the most sumptuous music... a distinctive album that demands listening attention" - Shakenstir

"Highly accomplished, poetically charged, mini-chamber orchestral brooding about love - it's mostly a breakup album underneath all the lyrical allusive qualities - and against modern nature." - Sweeping the Nation

"This really is a fine album, rich in words and rather beautiful tunes, some of it simple acoustic wordy, some orchestral warmth, all very much about the words and the lines that keep on catching ears in their audacity of rope, words whistling on hard through the fallow and the one good eye gone from the horse and divorced from the tunes they’re marched from a conjurer’s hat. Just fine songs, alive with the coming of Spring’s good words and let it all come to you in the sigh of an hour . No remit to submit, you really have to listen for yourself, burn your own Icarus tongue numb with the depth and Leonard Cohen-like quality of a rather accomplished album..." - Organ magazine

Criticism for Immortality

"What a pile of depressing bollocks!" - Lily Le, Felix magazine

Praise for As Our Parents Slowly Turn to Clay

"An irked poet dealing with big themes of love, society, religion, politics... a remarkably assured achievement" - The Line of Best Fit

"Un ascolto che si rivelerà intrappolato piacevolmente tra accordi acustici e riverberi sognanti. Questo disco è bellissimo perché “proviene da esperienze vissute in altri campi della vita” e tornate poi alla musica. Sembra di essere in un film. Stupendo." - Indie For Bunnies

"A musical poet in the least pretentious of senses... veering from Cohen-type introspection to full on Nick Cave rock ‘n’ roll ranting... The character of Donen looms large over proceedings... it is a tribute to the production of the record that the music dominates, leaving the listener to discover the lyrics." - Lisa Holmes, New Noise

"Like British Sea Power when they're being all triumphantly, mini-orchestrally expansive? You'll like this." - Sweeping The Nation

Record Label:

Walker & Orfing

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