Kristi Michele

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Desert Song

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Released: May 19, 2011

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Desert Song
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Eight Bluebirds
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Paper Heart
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Down by the Oceanside
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So It Goes (Live on Radio Hotbodies)
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General Info

Genre: Folk / Indie / Melodramatic Popular Song
Location Los Angeles, California, Un
Profile Views: 24463
Last Login: 11/26/2011
Member Since 4/15/2005
Website www.paperheartcollection.com
Record Label Paper Heart
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Kristi Michele is a songstress hailing from Southern California. Her songs are tales of misty forests, chirping birds, and creaking Viking boats woven into ornate tapestries of sound, with touches like glockenspiel and auto harp. Lyrically, her songs are reminiscent of both the droll styles of classic songwriters like Cole Porter and Blossom Dearie and the long, billowing narratives of 1960s folk artists such as Joni Mitchell. Her voice has the nostalgic quality of a vintage chanteuse, hinting at the torch singing of Billie Holiday, the wavering folk bellow of Maddy Prior, and the theatrical alto of a turn-of-the-century vaudevillian act. She is like a rainbow comprised of all the colors left over from many a rainy day- folk, Broadway show tunes, Brill-Building pop, jazz, blues, cabaret, and psychedelia are all influences on her music, sometimes folk ditties accompanied by a plucked acoustic guitar, other times vocal melodies layered as sweetly as tiramisu and set to Ragtime piano. Whatever the package, her songs evoke a time gone by.
Members
Kristi Michele: keys, guitar, glockenspiel, autoharp, vocals
Influences
Astrud Gilberto. The Beatles. Billie Holiday. Bjork. Blossom Dearie. Bob Dylan. Brian Wilson. Cole Porter. The Doors. Harry Nilsson. Johann Sebastian Bach. Jon Brion. Joni Mitchell. Judy Garland. Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross. Ludwig von Beethoven. Nick Drake. of Montreal. Patsy Cline. Pentangle. Pink Floyd. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Raymond Scott. Sandy Denny. Scott Joplin. Stephen Sondheim. Tom Waits. Vashti Bunyan.
Sounds Like
Vikings, Bunnies, Hurricanes, Driftwood, Chirping, Castles, Rain, Lions, Candy Shops.