I don't like what I wrote before about the music I like... so I'm changing it... We're all kinda subconsciously influenced by all music but heres a list of things I like off the top of my head... the Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Fionn Regan, Thomas Dybdahl, 13th Floor Elevators, Soft Machine, Petrushka, Ian M Hale, Steely Dan, Nexus, Supergrass, Syd Barret, ROLF HARRIS, Smoke Feathers, *brains implodes*
I like melodic prog rock and psychedelia... I wish these two songs were written about me:
Letter To Hermione - DAVID BOWIE
Moonchild - KING CRIMSON
I can break down into tears at night listening to those songs... they are truely beautiful...
Record Label
i bought a pack of sticky labels.... that'lll do..
...SIMPLY... I was concieved in a hospital store room and brought up listening to David Bowie, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan... I got my first guitar when I was 7, though my mother reckons I was 5, and started playing open mic nights when I was 8... I continued to do so untill I turned 16 and went to Brit School whereapon I met a crazy drummer and a ginger guy... I wrote some tunes, brought them forward to the "band" and we called ourselves Retrospect... I neglected my solo music and personal progression which is why I'm here!
...Stoolpigeon said this:
Charlene Soraia tells me there’s a lunar eclipse next weekend. I ask her where.
“In the sky, silly,” she says as she steals one of my crisps. “I wrote a lullaby about it last night. I made up a new word, too: ‘moonwink’. I swear I’m obsessed with the moon.”
That’s Charlene: a lunatic in the literal sense of the word; a space cadet in the figurative sense; and a musician from the moment she first snuck her father’s guitar from behind the sofa, laid the neck over her legs and started picking away at the strings until they snapped. “My dad would ask if I’d been playing with his guitar and I always said, ‘No, it was the cat, I saw her do it with her claws.’ I recently admitted that was a lie.”
Charlene got given her own guitar when she was five, played her first open mic night when she was eight and was a regular on the circuit by the time she was 10. She was 14 - and a convert to the transforming powers of psychedelic drugs - when she wrote ‘Stars Shoot By’, the song, she says, that turned her from a passable pop singer into a proper songwriter. In 2006 she released the ‘Lemonade’ EP, which in its contrasting shades of light and dark set the stage for two very different Charlene Soraias: the girl who likes to pick flowers and run through fields in frilly dresses, and the one who wants to float through the blackest fathoms of space watching planets being born.
“There are two sides to my music,” she says. “There’s the folky, idyllic side that comes out in songs like ‘Daffodils’ and ‘Lemonade’, and there’s the cosmic night time side, songs like ‘Jupiter’ and ‘Postcards From iO’. Although I actually thought Jupiter was the one with rings around it until recently. I also thought Io was the moon made of ice, but apparently that’s Ganymede. I guess ‘Io’ just sounds more like ‘ice’. ‘Ganymede’ sounds like a venereal disease.”
Patrick Moore will sleep easy tonight. Mariah Carey, however, may lie less peacefully on the perfumed pile of money she calls a bed, for the preening diva of dog-bothering octaves has a young contender hot on her heels, and Charlene has a secret weapon when it comes to hitting the high notes.
“I’ve got a little man with a needle who lives in my pocket, and there’s a tiny piano tattooed on my leg. Whenever I want to hit a high note I just give him a prod and he pinpricks the right one. It works every time.”
She also knows where to obtain excellent shrooms. The two facts may be related.
...Someone nice said this about a show off the Stephen Fretwell tour:
The South Londoner Brit School graduate Charlene Soraia who takes to the stage sings ... straddled with guitar and an impressive repertoire; jazz leanings and beautiful runs, rich flurries with reverb. Her voice breaks with meaning, cracks with purity, squeaks with pleasure, as fingers dance across fret like fireflies across an electrical lake. Humour runs amok (and laughter is permitted) on "Does She Fake Her Cum Face?" the sweet delight of a public display of revenge.
are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again:
are you excited for addy to move?i wasnt for keifer but i guess yesterday he went to go visit and refused to back to the 2s and stayed with sharen the hole day! i think addy will do fine because she is very sassy so the bigger kids wont pick on her:)she moves monday? you gonna be able to help her out? did you ever start on them online survey things i told you about? i hope you did, i just another check, this was for $237 from 2 weeks ago. if you didn't yet, pshhh, get on it; i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is again:
I hope all is well and good and I just wanted to let you know I've just put up a new track called ECHO so I thought you might want to have a listen. :o) It's just the instrumental version I did not long ago but I do have a full section of vocal to arrange into this track so I'll keep you posted on the outcome! :o)
I appreciate your time and support and any comments posted.
Hello :-) Did you enjoy Glasto? Must have been really fun... We are playing Club Jamboree at the Cable Street Studios in London this Thursday (9th). Are you up for coming? Would love to see you again! xx Anja
Hey i saw you in Leicester with Howie on the 26th....and i've never seen anyone play a guitar like that before, pretty amazing. Really enjoyed your set too, some great songs.
hiya! yeh iv heard alot bout you too and always liked your stuff. iv just finished uni and am hoping to do my music and produce others too - gonna launch alice's new album soon and try to find lots of gigs - would be great to gig with you at some point! hope you are well
hello my luv! sorry for the delay. i kinda forgot that i had a myspace hehe. your music is coming along so nicely! i am very proud!! we must meet and talk of wise things. xx
Bonjour Charlene, how's things? I've orded the latest EP from your shiny new website, can't wait for Mr Postie to bring it. Hope the tour's going well! xx
I would love you to do something on that song with me! I always thought it needed to be sung by two people... sorta like a conversation you get me bruv, Init.
We should meet up soon! Oh actualy if your around this weekend its my choir's main shows at the round house you can come in for free if you come early in the day and bring ID proving your under 26 and ask to do the arts counsil sceme.
You should come its gonna be really strange and trippy!
.. I've just been listening to twas lovley over and over. I can't belive i havnt listened to this one as much.. bloody brilliant.
We're back in London on the 29th. But I see you're in Sheffield :-) Apart from that we're playing Jamboree at the Cable Studios on 9th July. Would be great to see you again if you're free. x Anja
