Elizabeth Devlin - Vocals, Autoharp & Music/Lyrics
Influences
The antithesis of nothing...
...AND...
"To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing."-Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
"Elizabeth Devlin croons brassy dreams over Autoharp"
-Top Live Shows: MUSIC-Time Out New York / Issue 723 : Aug 6–12, 2009
"If you like CocoRosie and Jolie Holland you'll like the sound of Elizabeth Devlin. Armed only with an Autoharp, she sings of the loveless and unrequited with the sweetest intonation. What beautifully sickly sweet music she does make. She released 'All Are Relative' at the end of last year. You can also catch her in the North of England before she floats back to her haven of New York. Ahhh." -Super Ace: The lamb and the lion, London/UK Blog, May 2009
"Song: Heloise and Abelard by Elizabeth Devlin. Beyond the a propros subject matter, this lady can really play the autoharp. This song sounds like something you'd find on a gramophone record." -Lauren Groff, Largehearted Boy Blog:Delectible Birds, Feb. 2009
"Then think about Elizabeth Devlin, who sings as though her influences are not of this Earth, and who, a scant three years ago, compelled audiences to listen intently through hour-long shows at Sidewalk, her lilting vibrato accompanied only by the handclaps she could chide out of the audience. In less-capable hands, an hour of solo a capella songs would be interminable, but Devlin soldiered on and kept audiences interested for a few months, before picking up an autoharp, and not so much learning it, so much as having the instrument in her bones. This, All Are Relative, is Devlin's debut full-length (or any length, save one song on Crafty Records' Anticomp Folkilation in 2007), and it is a testament to her ability as a songwriter, singer and monumentally gifted performer."
-JezebelMusic.com, Record Review: All Are Relative, By:Brook Pridemore Dec. 12, 2008
"Elizabeth Devlin is a creative young singer from Queens, with a voice at once strong and ethereal. She accompanies herself on Autoharp, which casts her every song in shades of spooky."
-MUSIC: Critics' Picks, TimeOUT NY, Dec. 4-10, 2008 ISSUE 688
"In a sea of female vocalists armed with pianos, guitars and a Regina Spektor fixation, it thrills me to hear a great songwriter sporting an autoharp and a voice like Snow White with a dash of helium."
-Ben Krieger, A Review of Williamsburg Songwriter Competition 11/9/07, Bar Matchless, www.jezebelmusic.com/weblog
"Devlin invokes influences from scratchy American phonograph, combining bitter-sweet, haunting vocals with angelic, cacophonous Autoharp melodies."
-Press Release, Make Music NYC 7/21/07, Wagner's Cove, Central Park, NYC
www.myspace.com/wagnerscove, www.makemusicny.org,
"That's when it happens. She comes up on stage, all five foot five of her, solid cute, unassuming, adorable. She's got no instrument, and you wonder, 'What? Is she one of those lame-ass comics? Or worse: a poet?'...And in a way, she is; but a poet with lyrics, a poet like Homer, only she can see, and she can speak English, and she can sing."
-Jonathan Berger, A Guide to the Fortified Summer Antifolk Fest 2006, Aug12-20: Featured Arrtist, UrbanFolk
Elizabeth Devlin invokes influences from scratchy phonographs, combining bitter sweet, haunting vocals with poignant lyrics and angelic, cacophonous melodies. Papa Devlin fancied himself a gypsy and traveled the coast peddling his one-man-band street performance; Momma was a writer, who tended many children and hand sewed puppets to sell on the DC streets. Pulling these things to her, Elizabeth's performance art began as lyrical, melodic, acapella poetry but soon blossomed into an electroacoustic sound when she began to play the Autoharp.
"All Are Relative", Elizabeth's debut full length album, offers up a delicious residual hum of dreams and fantastic things; the ear should eat this album in one sitting. Although the individual tracks run a gamut of genre associations, they were conceived as symbiotic pieces intertwined, parts of a dynamic storybook, an audible, cerebral landscape. "All Are Relative" was recorded and produced with friend and musician, Kyle Avallone, in small town Belmar, New Jersey, located three blocks from the ocean, in a hundred-year-old house with creaky steps, a leaky attic, and several orphaned inhabitants.
Elizabeth Devlin is the two-time recipient of the Common Ground On the Hill, Roots Music & Arts Memorial Scholarship through which, she attended Traditions Music Workshops in 2007 & 2008. Also in 2008, Elizabeth was awarded the Mary Lou Orthey Scholarship to attend the Mt. Laurel Autoharp Gathering where she received the Leonard A. Reid Peoples Choice Award for Outstanding Vocal Performance.
"All Are Relative" Debut Full-Length
Produced by Kyle Avallone & Elizabeth Devlin
Recorded & Mixed by Kyle Avallone
Mastered by Paul Gold, Salt Mastering
Photography by Magali Charron
Elizabeth Devlin, Autoharp, Song & Lyrics
Kyle Avallone, Bass
Debe Dalton, Banjo
"I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I’m out of control and at times I’m hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best’’
.- Marilyn Monroe " . . .
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the rainbow song
‘’the rainbow song’’ …………….bob shea
No one really knows where the rainbow starts And no one really knows what's inside your heart
I want to see your colors reds and blues Every shade of every hue All the gold inside of you
No one wants to know all that lies within Every little thought where do I begin I want to show you colors blues and greens Shades that you have never seen All the gold that makes you dream
No one wants to know all the colors of your heart Every single shade of the colors of your heart No one wants to know all the colors of your heart Every single shade of the colors of your heart
No one wants to know where the rainbow ends mystery of life bett
Hi Elizabeth. I meet you a Spike Hill a while back. My band is playing it's first show at LIC bar this Sunday at 4. It would be great to see you again.Take care
Underwater Getdown decided to throw us a benefit out of the goodness of their hearts, and we love them for that (actually, we love them anyway, but that is beside the point). Support community media, support local music, and have a kickin' good time all at once for a measly 5 bucks!
3rd Annual WAGSTOCK this Sunday, June 21st!! Wagstock is free for all. Bring blankets, pets, brew, snacks and snuggle up on the grass with your sweetie pie.
We are so looking forward to having you play at Wagstock 2009 on June 21st!
Invite All your friends to this FREE, ALL DAY, ACOUSTIC music celebration!
Line-up in 2009... Charles Latham, Lisa Li-Lund, Elizabeth Devlin, Daniel Bernstein, Annie Crane, Rick Patrick, Chloe Philip, Jonathan Byerly, Kyle Avallone, Pheobe Kreutz, The Havens...and many more!
Hello! It was such a shame you couldn't play! Sorry i never got round to replying to that email, but I hope your UK tour went really well and you're enjoying the summer - take care, Will x
