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.”
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Search for Amber Lee and the Anomalies and you will find "Estuaries" ready for your digital enjoyment.
Hey Amber! Thanks for finding us! And yes - 'tis I who approves those friendship request thingies. This is an awesome page - your songs sound great and the photos are rad. I see you are going to play with Ricky Berger! She is an absolute doll. We played with her in Jan in Sac at Luna's cafe and we really want to play with her again. Please tell her hi. :-) Heather
Fermata: Cliffs Ruby Throat: Dear Daniel Mark Sinnis: Mind Melt Oval Portraits: Crying Windows Unextraordinary Gentlemen: Chaser Sxip Shirey: Istanbul The Dad Horse Experience: Away Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Viktagraph Against Me!: How Low Vermillion Lies: Bonnie & Clyde Foetus Symphony Orchestra featuring Lydia Lunch: Black Adonis Adrian H & the Wounds: Smoke Supersuckers: Hangliders Christian Williams: KK Bridge Neko Case: Vengeance is Sleeping James Blackshaw: Bled Bakelite 78: St James Infirmary Blues Serendipity Musik: Off to War Abney Park: The Secret Life of Dr Calgori Black Heart Procession: A Sign on the Road Amber Lee and the Anomalies: It's Me Jason Webley & Sxip Shirey: Elephant Piano Thomas Nola et son Orchestre: Gloomy Sunday Miss Moonshine: It's Only a Paper Moon
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