Adam Lipsky: piano
Juliana "Jfunk" Frick: bass
Morgan Greenstreet: drums
I do not want to be a product. I do not want to sell my pretty face to sell a record. I want to play my music, to be a constant student, to live my life the way I want. And if that means that I need to have a day job, and maybe a high-paying night job a couple nights a week, then so be it. I’m tired of seeing every musician turn themselves into a product, into something smooth and glossy that everyone will automatically “love.” I don’t want to smooth out the rough edges, I don’t want to make myself into something or some one that moves with the tide. I want to own one wave, own the bubbles and the rough edges and the swooshing of that one wave and know that I move with it, move like it, because I wish, not because I can gain the whole ocean from it.
Influences
Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, Mariah Carey, Amy Winehouse, Mahalia Jackson, Kelly Clarkson, Stevie Wonder, Alex Magrath, Jim Goodman, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Damien Rice, Carolyn Wonderland, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Corinne Bailey Rae, Nicole Berke, Sam Cooke, Ptah Williams, Nellie McKay, Janis Joplin, Joanna Newsome, Cat Power, Beyonce, The Temptations, Feist, Portishead, The Beatles, William Blake, silence, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings, Ben Webster, Thelonius Monk, Bela Bartok, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone.
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Dora Magrath has a superpower. No, she can’t shoot deathrays from her eyes or lead North Korea. She has the ability of making everything disappear around you when she starts singing. This singer-songwriter sounds like a Regina Spektor fed with jazz records. Her amazing voice barely covered by a shy piano just gives me shivers.
Only a cheap demo CD (The Looking Glass) is avaible for the moment but be sure that Dora will soon find a nice indie label to collaborate with. Everyone who has listened to her song “oh you see” on her myspace will agree with that.
uhhhh i miss you, it's been far far far too long. and i want to buy your cd and listen to it over and over. hope everything is becoming a little bit sunnier for you. let's talk soon :)
i heard the recording of it with your voice and it sounds so divine...maybe we can do a duet someday...strange that earlier today i was re-teaching that very song to myself on guitar. well thats how it works i suppose...nectar
Hi sweetie! I'm glad I got to see you last night before you left town today. I wish you the best of luck and hopefully I will get to see you again soon. In the meantime, don't forget to write me and keep me updated on what's going on with you. *Lovems & Hugems*
Hey sweetie! I just wanted to say how fabulous you were at your cd release party. I am so glad that I finally got to see you perform. You are truly a rare talent, and I am so glad that we have gotten a chance to know each other better. You have to sign my cd!!! ;) *Hugems*
Hey Dora...thanks for the ADD! I had a great listen to your music! Your a tremendous talent Young Lady! I really enjoyed your song "The Looking Glass"...and then "The Sky is Blue"...killer acapella going on! BE Cool and Stay Safe!!
Hey there. Just dropped by to check out the tunes, and I gotta say, I'm really impressed! How old are you? You seem pretty young to have a voice like that. Anyhoo, I think it would be really cool if we could play a show together sometime soon. Hit me back...
the new song sounds incredible!! i've heard it with just you, and with the band it sounds even better. i definitely definitely want to buy a copy of one of those cds :) miss you.
