Carly Blackman (voice, acoustic guitar,
electric guitar, moogs, farfisa, programming and synths)
+++ Friends
Electric Guitar: Julien G
Guitar/keys: Jerome P
Drums: Gab
Cello: Guillaume
Vocals: Richard W
Influences
BUY THE ALBUM ON ITUNES HERE
iTunes
For bookings in France: aurelie@moujikprod.com
For Promo FRANCE - thomas@ivox.fr and nico@btp.fr
BUY A SIGNED COPY OF THE ALBUM DIRECTLY FROM CARLY TO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY CLICKING ON THE PAYPAL SYMBOL and following the external links or by going to: the Carly Sings official website!
or AMAZON or FNAC, VIRGIN Stores etc
MY INFLUENCES...
the glove thief /////george emerson /// george elliot/// care bears +~++ BRAZIL, miseducation of Lauren hill - JANE Birkin, Chelsea Girl. Andre Previn. Magical Mystery Tour.Jack
Kerouac + Guy De Maupassant...mon hero
Sounds Like
Leonard Cohen. If he was a girl
Doris Day as Adrian Mole
Nico an octave higher
Dan Johnston's guitar
Bjork if she did folk. Julie London.
Rivers Cuomo--- well I'm dreaming of sounding like Rivers
Feist without the oooozz
Fiona Apple without the orchestra
BOB Dylan....some-one said i am as shy/
Francoise Hardy en francais
Carly grew up in the countryside in Wicklow, Ireland, wore wellys and ran around the house a lot, occasionally stopping at the piano to play a duet with her sister. Debussy or Stevie Wonder mainly. She moved to Lyon, France, as a teenager, and trapped inside her boarding school perched on top of a hill, wondered if she would ever meet Thom Yorke. A few years later, she arrived in Paris, where she bought a guitar in a pawn shop and took jazz singing lessons.
"The Glove Thief", her debut album emerged from an archive of demos she had been collecting and recording in her bedroom (quite secretly until myspace made her public), made with an old Sony microphone.. Carly moved home to record what would be considered a French pop gem dipped in a British Summer of Love. Independently released in Ireland in late 2008, the album garnered Carly and her "cristalline" singing voice, an overwhelming wad of press attention for its unconventional catchy melodies, low-fi sensibilities, vintage references, and a kind of dirty innocence in the lyric writing.
You can buy a hard-copy special edition copy from this page, digital on itunes and through Rough Trade Shop in London. "The Glove Thief" will be released nationwide in France on 22nd June 2009.
Carly Sings has opened and toured as a special guest with many artists such as The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova & The Frames), Jose Gonzalez, The Blue Nile, Nina Nastasia, The Spinto Band, Dave Geraghty and Paul Noonan (from Bellx1), Beth Rowley, Monade (Leatitia from Stereolab), Peter Von Poehl, Adrian Crowley, Chequerboard, Mugison, Halfset, and Baby Dee etc. Stay tuned to this page for more listings.
The Glove Thief, le premier album de Carly Sings, fredonne une seule et même mélodie. Celle d’une jeune Irlandaise éprise de romantisme et de vieux films français, trop tôt égarée dans des considérations existentielles. "The Glove Thief" sort en France le 22 juin 2009...
Résumé des épisodes précédents : Les avis sont partagés au sein du groupe quand aux influences réelles de nos amis musiciens. JL assume Gérard Lenorman comme déclencheur de son goût pour la scène. Sofff voue un culte immodéré à Mylène Farmer. Paco décroche son Téléphone et Pedro fredonne la Compagnie Créole… Snifff (le chat) de son côté se repasse en boucle la 7ème symphonie de Beethoven dirigée par Furtwängler au Royal victoria Hall en 1949. Palem seul considère que Sonic Youth est le chaînon manquant. Est il le dernier des rockeurs ? Pour ce qui est de la direction artistique des nouveaux morceaux le mystère restera donc entier… Vous en saurez plus au Rigoletto le 14 novembre pour un concert plein de nouveautés, en compagnie des splendides Twins sisters et des non moins magnifiques Bagro’s (337 rue de Belleville 75019 Paris métro Porte des Lilas, à partir de 20h, 5 euros seulement mais c’est une peccadille).
thanks Carly for the ancient post, it would be perfect if the girls come, we'll see, last monday i went to see Plasticines, do u know? anyway, i really liked ur music, i listen a lot this kind of stuff, like camille or ariane moffat, so i'm really interested in buying your cd, j'ai envie is my favorite but i also liked the english ones =) Paula
hey how's it going? in case you haven't checked our myspace, we've been on tour and are constantly posting more dates! i hope to see ya when we come through, so check our page now!
and if you still don't have our album, "wait for the sun," you can find it on itunes or in our online store - http://store.tdrrecords.com
...many thanks for becoming friends and taking pleasure in our tunes...the spirit of Durga is with you and there will always be Eight Arms To Hold You...
Quelques news de deja vu: notre album "Roulette Russe" sort (enfin!!) officiellement le 09 novembre prochain (mvs records/anticraft)! Il sera dispo dans tous les bacs hexagonaux, sortie numérique etc...
Deux concerts en novembre pour fêter tout ça: le 17 novembre au Batofar à Paris, et le 27 novembre à la Marquise à Lyon (gratuit!!). Tu seras là?
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