The Cure, Tom Waits, Holden Caulfield, the wilderness, hard-working folks-the keepers of inspiration, Daniel Johnston, Alessi, Alela, Mariee,
Bonnie Prince Billy, Hayao Miyazaki, Loomfixer, Irish songs,
forests and pine trees, trains and full moons, haunted places,
family, travelin', the bayou, The Pogues, The Cars, INXS, Joni Mitchell,
Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake,
Depeche Mode, Erasure, OMD,
80's ballads and hair, The Arcade Fire, Jacob Golden,
Karl Blau, Little Wings,
Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground,
Spoon,
my beautiful music friends,
the spirit of gratitude for this life
and all it gives and takes away
"Be like the little children"
If you would like our album Fight Your Broken Heart and Fly, it is available through CD Baby at this link
Currently we are working on a new album, In The Wake Of ESP, to be released this Spring Summer 09.
We live in old gold cities where miners once roamed with their treasure and saloons- general stores were constructed in matters of days, velvet rooms and all. We live and write music from the daily inspiration of tales of the Gold Rush, the whispering forest spirits, family-friend circles, Hayao Miyazaki, true love, being truly IN the rawness of nature and working with the earth, waking up to see the pines!, Coast to Coast AM, stories that back up eternity. We love living in the mountains of California, and can feel the old rowdy ghosts of miners creeping through the streets at night. I try to write fragments of the heart of the Golden West into our songs. And I long to get back to soaking in the southern humid thickness of the magic of Louisiana. I have never felt anything like the people there. Any culture left in California these days is thrown to the vultures of film and music and art without hesitation. I don't ONLY want to be someone who writes about the others that LIVE REAL HONEST LIVES...I want to BE one.
I started playing piano at age 6, and through my teen years I performed in many musicals. But it took years to figure out the courage to get on the stage with MY OWN music and lyrics, it's the fucking scariest thing I ever did, but now I'm over it (or like to think so).....Growing up I listened to all different kinds of music. And I still do. Basically, I just like MUSIC. I don't think one kind is way better than another. OK- maybe monster ballads and guitar solos from the 80's are actually radder than everything else. ........? but seriously, I am sick of musical isolation, where groups of people are completely narrowminded to any other kind of music but one or two. Yeah, not into that. Not into being super-cool hipster type....AT ALL. Being too quiet is lame. Pretending you are too cool to speak. -We need to be kind to each other. Very very kind.
Art and I have played in Coal Beautiere since 2006. Then we got married. We met in Nevada City in 2004 and Art was completely encouraging of my scrappy ragtime-ish ghost jingles. I needed the love. Hence, our little duo was born.
Thanks for the true hearts who sing out, speak the truth always, and use kindness daily. Coal Beautiere (the name) has it's origins from a road trip to the truth of Lafayette, Louisiana and means "TREASURE ONLY WHAT IS REAL AND CAN WITHSTAND TIME". We know, despite the cynics, that we WILL change the world by increasing our love. Love conquers all. And so it goes.
On more important notes, some quotes by some smarty-pants people like-
Tom Waits:
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.
I'm just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
William Blake:
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. Every harlot was a virgin once.
And Jack Kerouac:
The only ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time.....
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Antoine de St. Exupery:
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
And by us, the infamous coal beautiere:
Make art that saves people from hopelessness and fear.
Battle the bullies.
GO WATCH TIM AND ERIC on ADULT SWIM!
Treat others with honor and respect, all others, the earth, all life.
Hi Coal Beautierre. We will be releasing a 10 track pastoral psych folk CD entitled 'midsummers' on 24th June 2009. midsummers is currently available to buy from our website www.millersounds.co.uk . You can hear some tracks from midsummers on our myspace player. Best wishes, The Rowan Amber Mill.
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