Amber Lee Baker - vocals, accordion, glockenspiel, loop pedal, percussion
email amberleebaker@gmail.com for booking!
occasional guest appearances by:
Michael Lindner -mandolin
historic memebers:
Karen Frindell - banjo
Brian Carlisle - fiddle, mandolin
Muir Houghton - upright bass
Randy Meza - drums, percussion
Influences
All kinds of accordion music!
Including:
Old-Time Music, Caberet, Tango, Sea Songs, Bluegrass, Gypsy, Klezmer, and Celtic folk music, ... the occasional polka...
...and the humorous, challenging experience of being a human on this planet.
Artists who have been inspirations are many, and include The Decemberists, Beirut, The Roches, Bjork, Beck, Iron and Wine, Johnatha Brooke, P.J. Harvey, Johnny Cash, They Might be Giants... to name a few.
Sounds Like
The Decemberists
The Roches
Your grandma's kitchen.
Distant, dream-like memories of traveling from the Old Country to the New.
Belly laughs and sorrowful mourning sighs.
Amber Lee and the Anomalies is the realization of accordion-ista and songwriter Amber Lee Baker’s creative dream. Her album combines accordion, banjo, up-right bass, fiddle, and vocals, to tell captivating stories about whaler’s wives, rural cemeteries, glowing estuaries, bumps in the road, and rodeo clowns in roadside bars. With influences ranging between Old-Time music, Gypsy tunes, and Sea Songs her sound suggests distant, dream-like memories of crossing the ocean in a wooden ship by the light of an oil lamp.
She is currently performing as a solo act with her accordion, glockenspiel, percussion frog, and loop station - for an act that is rich with complexity and verging towards a full one-woman-band.
Accordion-ista, vocalist, and songwriter Amber Lee Baker picked up an accordion in a music shop in 2002 and instantly fell in love. A childhood of piano and voice lessons gave her a passion for music, but it was the accordion that really allowed her to find her voice. With a range of folk influences she paints fascinating stories in her well-crafted songs. As the accordion drew her deeper down the rabbit hole, she found it more satisfying than architecture, and thus many songs were born.
Album contributers include Karen Frindell on banjo; Muir Houghton on upright bass; Jesse Wickman on drums; Michael Lindner: the multi-instrumental, multi-talented recording engineer; and guest violin players Brian Carlisle, Gary Krohn and Morgan Cocheneure. Preston Booker also appears as the lonely Latin guitar on “Okay.”
Buy Estuaries on CD Baby!
Photos from "Hey Sugga" with Uni and her Ukulele!
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Amber Lee and the Anomalies's Friend Space (Top 25)
thanks a lot Amber!! I appreciate it much love and respect to my fellow musician :D would you like some free song downloads? I have a way to get them to you using gmail....I made it so you can grab them whenever you have time. (you won't need a gmail account to do it) just send me a myspace message with the subject "downloads" and I'll take care of ya :) let me know Dylan
Finally, here it is, a cookbook with recipes submitted by twenty six
ukulele players from around the world... including Aya (Japan), Big
Muffin Serious Band (New Zealand), Catgreenbike (England), Charles
Altmann (Australia), Craig Wilson (England), Doctor Sparkles (US),
Eilidh (Scotland), James Hill (Canada), Janet Klein (US), Jen Kwok
(US), Juha Vaananen (Germand/Finland), Jukka Lehtinen (Sweden), Lil Rev
(US), Michelle Kiba (US), Molly and Me (Denmark/Scotland), Oliver Brown
(US), Paul Moore / Ukuleles for Peace (Israel), Peter and Donna Thomas
(US), Peter van Eyck (Belgium), Professor Peter and Dr Dick (Holland),
Ralph Shaw (Canada), Rose Turtle Ertler (Australia), Sarah van Jellie
(England), Sweet Soubrette (US), Ukulele Pete (Scotland), Ukulelezaza
(Belgium) look at: www.ukuleleland.org
The Trio thinks you should have a Calendar of your own!! Keep Squeezing.... Peace, Love, Beer & Pretzels from Fritz, Franz & Freud - Trio Internationale'
Black Tape for A Blue Girl: Caught by a Stranger Ukulele Loki's Gadabout Orchestra: Daylight Savings Shirley Hughes & Bruce Hanson: Cheechako Lil Katzenjammer Kabarett: Nevermore Brothel Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Carnal Carnivale Ego Plum & the Ebola Music Orchsestra: Sonitas Insolitas Peculiar Pretzelmen: Beware the Grackle Palodine: The Maker Christian Williams: Threshing Crew Dex Romweber Duo: Picture of You The Jam: That's Entertainment Hail Seizures: Cellar Kepi Ghoulie: Take a Look What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?: Fruitless The Dad Horse Experience: Falling Voltaire: The Industrial Revolution (and How It Ruined My Life) Abney Park: Hush Against Me!: How Low Jennifer Leonhardt: Kerby Lane Jubilee HUMANWINE: Rivolta Silenziosa Amber Lee and the Anomalies: It's Me Agent Ribbons: Birds & Bees Slim Cessna's Auto Club: Good Night My Friend The Doors: Spanish Caravan Serendipity Musik: Wind Song Danny Price and the Loose Change: Those Good Ol' Death Metal Days
CHECK OUT THE HUNGRY LIKE A WOLF TEASER!!...We are playing at the River Brewing Company on June 10th. It's the night of the Wednesday night market! It'll be a blast!! Show starts at 8:00pm. Hope to see you there!!
