Currently recording my solo album. Finally! Its taken years but I'm putting it together now. Hopefully be out by the spring. Spending my winter hybernating in my guitar and piano and by the spring a beautiful album will appear from a musical coccoon just like a butterfly.
Influences
ladybirds, little stick on stars, peppered steak and chips, a good bottle of vino, jasmine, people, busses, swiming at the bottom of a pool in the mid summers sun, a cup of tea and cake, glitter, fresh herbs, hot sand, more to be added.
Sounds Like
Music boxes, spoons, midnight gardening, crickets, hot summer evenings, pink champagne and stardust
"Fresh from one of her first London shows at the Discovery Showcase at Tabernacle, Kirsty Almeida is gaining attention from a number of labels. She has recently been in the studio at their request to record demos for them. We love the effortless feel of the tracks, like the adorable breezy jazz of Cool Down Rewind." (JF. Record of the Day, 22nd April 2009)
"Once in a blue moon we get tipped off about an act that lives up to the hype
and who has a track that we totally fall in love with. Kirsty Almeida is the act
and Gather Round is the song in question. On hearing it for the very first time
we were beguiled by its lazy but spiritual vibe. Kirsty's vocal is to
die for. We would love to hear Corinne Bailey Rae cover this tune.
Kirsty was born in Gibraltar but her musical leanings were more for Jazz than
Rock! Now resident in Manchester, Kirsty is busy working on her debut album and plays frequently in the Manchester area. We know a couple of producers who would love to work with her. We are delighted that Kirsty and her band will be making their London debut at our Hit Sheet / BMI Cobden Club gig on February 25. Meanwhile check Kirsty's other Jazz, Latin and, in some places, Klezmer influenced style tracks on her myspace page. Oil has been struck!!"
(Paul Kramer, HITsheet. Issue120, 25th February 2009)
"Her voice is extraordinarily beautiful. I defy any warm-blooded creature not to fall in love with her." (Go!, December 2008)
“ Miss Almeida has matured into a true class A diva - pure soul with a latin heartbeat.”
Lubi Jovanovic (Straight No Chaser/Nascente Records)
“Almeida Girl has a sultry, soul vocal approach to latin music which adds a new and exciting twist.” - (Alex Wilson )
"Kirsty’s songs are unmediated expressions of her own vivacious character. The mood is spirited and playful, with an undertone of seduction." (Mike Butler/Manchester City Life)
"Kirsty Almeida’s vocals are sensuous and vibrant, humorous and delicate." (Dave Webster/Musician Magazine)
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Grouper (US) has her latest – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill – of three albums on Type Records. She has also been involved in collaborative releases, contributing a track to Xiu Xiu’s Remixed & Covered and four tracks to a split release with Inca Ore. Her other contemporaries are Belong, Growing, Tim Hecker, Windy & Carl and Atlas Sound.
Jasper TX (Sweden), with a hefty back-catalogue of releases on labels such as Miasmah, and collaborations with buddy Machinefabriek, is an essential domestic appliance in the household of conceptual music. He is comparable to artists Fennesz, Sigur Ros, Múm and Tape.
Intricate and atmospheric songsmith, Danny Saul (UK) performs with different combinations of musicians, making each gig a unique event. His forthcoming release is "Harsh, Final", and he also performs with Greg Haines as Liondialer.
Fieldhead (UK) music delights in tape hiss, bleak landscapes and decaying analogue loops. He is also a member of The Declining Winter and Glissando. His debut album, "They Shook Hands for Hours" is released soon on Home Assembly.
Remember sisters and friends, get down to the Oxford this Sunday (25th oct) at 9pm for the Real Jam Session! A night of free improvisation, straight up jammin, everyone involved. Bring your friends down for a good night so that they let us do it again! Free in, upstairs at the Oxford, opposite academy one, on the corner next to the old eye hospital.
Trespassers William (Seattle, US) are the duo of Matt Brown and Anna-Lynne Williams. "Subliminally sublime and pragmatically perfect, you would have to possess an ashtray for a heart not to feel this coursing through your soul" (DSD Music Magazine). A new EP, The Natural Order of Things, is set to be released on Gizeh Records. They will make a church performance with special guests.
Glissando (Sheffield, UK) “have the kind of atmosphere that can captivate and relax in equal measure- never before has tranquillity sounded so urgent. While track lengths of over 10 minutes may fail to hold the attention of the ADHD sufferers among us, with patience it plays like a majestic dream. And it's one you'll never want to wake up from." NME
Operations (Chris Anderson) is a Manchester based conceptual music producer and sound artist. He performs and records with an array of analog synths and effects, reel-to-reel tape and casette players, and guitars. Followers of Tim Hecker, Slowdive, Fennesz, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stephen O'Malley, Type and 12K Records will surely nod in approval.
Hey gorgeous, how's it going? I'm back in the Old Trafford neighbourhood and hopefully soon to be back on the scene in Manchester, available for making music and good vibes. Was advised to get down and see you at odder bar, although it appears that i need to be on some sort of guest list. I'm assuming this list is already full of lots of lovely people. Does this mean I won't get in or that I'll have to pay some sort of fee to get in? Certainly catch you somewhere soon em xx
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