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Alina Simone
Indie / Alternative / Folk Rock



Brooklyn, New York
United States

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Last Login:  7/8/2009
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   Alina Simone: General Info
Member Since5/15/2005
Band Websitewww.alinasimone.com
Band MembersJohn Lynch: Drums, Chris Barrey: Guitars, Organ, and lots of other stuff
InfluencesYanka Dyagileva, Kino, Auktyon, Alyosha Dmitrievich, Leonid Utesov, Alan Lomax field recordings, Black Ox Orkestar, Fat Possum records, Hildegard Von Bingen and Gnarls Barkley
Sounds Like"Everyone Is Crying Out to Me, Beware, the second album from Ukrainian-born singer-songwriter Alina Simone, is utterly haunting. With bare-bones arrangements and Simone's powerful, poignant vocals at the forefront, the record burns through a collection of songs by Siberian punk-folk singer, Yanka Dyagileva, with cathartic fervor.."
--NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (NPR)

One of the "Top 12 Bands to Watch" at SXSW 2008, alongside Santogold, Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes
--BILLBOARD MAGAZINE

"A mesmerizing reinterpretation of tragic Soviet punk's laments...the Ukrainian-born Simone sings in the original Russian and brings an aching passion to the sinister lo-fi punk. It's a strange, hypnotic celebration of a defiant soul "
--SPIN MAGAZINE

"Simone has done a great service in bringing these treasures to non-Russian audiences. (Yanka’s recorded output included just twenty-nine original songs, all of which circulated on samizdat cassettes.) Simone’s innovative versions reveal her many similarities to her heroine—most prominently, her haunting voice."
--THE NEW YORKER

"She sounds as close to these songs as she does to her own, and the way she emotes through the whole album—an ebb and flow of restraint and clawing-at-the-chest outpouring—is beautiful and affecting. The album isn’t much louder for its fuller arrangements, but its quiet is very hard to ignore. This is not one of those albums that can just sit in the background. You may think so at first, but Simone’s voice fills the room, and even if you don’t speak Russian and don’t know what she’s singing, you won’t miss any of the emotion behind it. ."
--POPMATTERS

"Yanka's spare, rough-hewn songs are fleshed out with the evocative addition of trumpet, strings, slide guitar, and other favorable chamber embellishments..."My Sadness is Luminous", for example, perfectly encapsulates the part hopeful, part heartbroken track, which runs less than two minutes and features strings, quiet drums, and minimal acoustic guitar, plus Simone's wistful, sometimes whispered vocals."
--PITCHFORK

"I've never heard the two records Alina Simone has made of her own songs, but I'll sure seek them out after hearing the new Everyone Is Crying Out to Me, Beware. Simone's interpretations are wonderfully dark and turbulent. Though her breathy, slightly husky voice is vaguely like Chan Marshall's, she inhabits these intimate, brooding melodies with a smoldering intensity all her own. The lean, craggy instrumentation -- mostly guitar, with some drums, trumpet, and cello -- brings out the warmth and humanity in her singing as she fights her way through its bleakness."
--THE CHICAGO READER

"The language barrier is no hazard when it comes to Simone, whose voice quivers and hovers around its unfamiliar phonetic terrain while deftly conveying the dark, frustrated emotions of the songs — each one a cover of Siberian-born punk-folk singer Yanka Dyagileva. Along the way, searing guitars creep, trumpets swoon, moody backdrops unfurl, and scratchy hard-struck acoustics light up each track with arresting immediacy. It’s no act of tourism."
--THE BOSTON PHOENIX

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   About Alina Simone


I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine and grew up in the suburbs of Massachusetts. I never sang in public until I moved to Austin, Texas where I started playing in the doorway of an abandoned bar near the corner of 6th and Congress. My music is about people that bring you to the brink of joy and despair and about having epiphanies in the most ordinary places.

Links:
www.reverbnation.com
www.facebook.com
www.ilike.com
www.last.fm
www.mtv.de
www.laut.de


NEW 7" VINYL - LIMITED EDITION:
Alina Simone "Snowfall & Starlight" / The Black Swans "Country Cookie 3"

alinaswans500

Split 7” vinyl, individually numbered, hand screen printed
Release Date: May 19, 2009
500 copies, 100 red vinyl
sunkentreasure.org


Albums:


Prettier in the Dark EP
(2005, Fractured Discs)



Placelessness
(2007, 54º 40' or Fight!)
(2008, Travelling Music - France)


Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware (CD)
(August 2008, 54º 40' or Fight!)


Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware (VINYL)
(September 2008, Topple Records)


Daytrotter Session EP
(September 2008, Daytrotter.com) DOWNLOAD


Songs for Compilations:


On Being Complicated

(2005, Esopus 5: Audio-Visuals)


Gunshots
(2007, Folk Music for the End of the World, Yer Bird Records)


with other projects:


City Island
(2007, The Artificial Sea, Travelling Music)


US MANAGEMENT/BOOKING INQUIRIES: Emily White, emily@whitesmithent.com
FOR ALL THINGS EUROPE: Michel Bergner, michelbergner@web.de

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WARCHILD





Jul 8 2009 3:39 AM

I enjoy your music!   Hope you can make it out to DROM in the East Village, NYC on Sat. July 25th @ 7pm for a fun night of the best of TULL as performed by WARCHILD!......Michael
JACK DUPON





Jul 8 2009 10:45 AM

No glory for heroes, Pas de gloire pour les héros

Jack Dupon

à la coopé en juin vue par leur copine

Marie...

www.myspace.com/adanedhel_hn

...l'échelle du Désir...

Jack Dupon

live at "La Coope" in june filmed by their good friend

Marie...

www.myspace.com/adanedhel_hn

Goodbye Ivan





Jul 1 2009 10:15 AM

Hi Alina,
Still have memories of this crazy coincidences when we met in Berlin ?
btw, I never told you that we really appreciate The Artificial Sea record you gave me ..
I will also take some space down here to announce the release of my first album ..
With warm greetings from Geneva..

The K Syndrome
Goodbye Ivan's debut album is out now on Shayo Records.
www.shayo.ch

Bleibende Schaeden





Jun 28 2009 10:10 AM


 

Missy





Jun 11 2009 6:25 AM

Awesome Music! Thank You for the Sound!
MaybeBaby





Jun 3 2009 8:02 PM

THANK YOU for the add, you're inspiration!!!
Greetz from Hamburg, MaybeBaby
TRI KOLA





Jun 1 2009 7:01 AM

Greetings from Brussels.
Thanks for the Add.
We Appreciate the Friendship.
Spasibo.
scarlett truth





May 22 2009 7:18 AM

you didn't happen to be in san francisco on tuesday night were you? if it wasn't you than you have a doppleganger roaming around.
ViBeJays & Friends





May 19 2009 3:11 AM

Dear Alina Simone,

Every time that we listen & write music... play an instrument... dance... act in a play... or work in some audio/image/video engineering process... something is healing inside...

When we share it with friends... something is healing all over...

Love can drive... in a simple way... everything

We are connected

Vibejays & Friends

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Estimada/o Alina Simone,

cada vez que escuchamos o escribimos musica... tocamos un instrumento... bailamos... o trabajamos en procesos de ingenieria de audio/imagen/video.... algo se sana por dentro...

Cuando lo compartimos con otros... algo se sana en todas partes...

El Amor puede conducir... de manera simple... todo...

Estamos conectados...

Vibejays & Friends
diresta





May 14 2009 3:36 PM

Even if alive in Italy, spiritually on May 21 I will be to your side, your music deserves to be known from everybody...I embrace you.

diresta
Jaggery





May 14 2009 5:31 PM

alina... how'd brooklyn treating you? coming to boston anytime soon? take care ~ mali




sos-charterboot ! Jetzt auf iTunes !





May 12 2009 8:59 AM

Hallo Brooklyn (USA) Alina Simone here is Hamburg (germany) !

Best band from germany "SOS-CHARTERBOOT"

listen and wonder or go out of my way :-O

greetings from the SOS crew
R.M. Isaiah





May 10 2009 1:06 AM

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BRAVO~THANKS
Apolo Swing Club





May 6 2009 7:30 AM

hey! how ya doing? we send you greetings from mexico, we are the Apolo Swing Club and we would really like it if you could check out our music, hope you can visit us soon, cheers!! take care!

Rough Love

Apolo Swing Club

Hayvanlar Alemi





May 4 2009 3:48 PM



Ödland





Apr 23 2009 2:09 AM

Thanks for the add.

Merci Pour l'ajout.


ARTSTRÄDA© MAGAZINE





Apr 21 2009 4:56 PM

We Love your music Alina! <3 !
Karl Wallner





Apr 17 2009 7:45 PM

Knut und die herbe Frau





Apr 16 2009 7:53 PM


Rockpalast/SPV





Mar 30 2009 1:46 PM

thanks for the add!!!
best
Rockpalast/SPV
Mike





Mar 23 2009 1:31 AM

Hey Alina,just wanted to stop in and remind you of your fans in the states. Look forward to seeing you in KC again.
Cardboardia





Mar 9 2009 3:37 PM

hello! Just befor summer CardboarTowns we are planing in Moscow, Berlin and Helsinki. Small party about it in Berlin. Hope you can join one of next towns!

And now searching for artists in BErlin for next party! May be you can recomend someone?


21 march. Berlin. from 14-00.
Create-Earn-Play - Cardboardia in BrotFabrik.
conjen





Mar 2 2009 12:39 AM

hi alina! congrats on all your success. i heard my old bassist jim made it out to one of your shows in st. petersburg... very funny.

keep in touch.
-mark
(718 -> 615 -> 202 -> 410)
Robin





Feb 25 2009 12:01 PM

Merci pour l'amitié... Robin
POLLYANNA





Feb 24 2009 9:54 PM

Hi New-Yorkers! I really like your songs and we almost met several times. Then, in case anyone here is curious of the French pop-folk scene, I wanted to tell you that I will play at Sidewalk Café (94 av. A, Manhattan) next tuesday at 11 pm.
xxx Isabelle
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