Wes Anderson, J.S. Bach, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, George Crumb, Claude Debussy, Bob Dylan, Antonio Gaudi, Herman Hesse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeff Lewis, Gyorgy Ligeti, Loretta Lynn, Marcel Proust, Elliot Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Vincent Van Gogh, Kurt Vonnegut....
Sounds Like
"Pop folk. Neo folk. Folking Folk.... [A] tasteful collection of quirky folk tunes and sunny-side-up live sets. It’s intimate joy with two harmonious singers, a guitar, and the occasional glockenspiel. Think Virginia Woolf meets Simon and Garfunkle in a Skittles commercial. Their sound is full of color and whimsical tales which come through ten-fold in a live environment.
" www.thedelimagazine.com/la (Hugo Gomez)
"[Homesick Elephant finds] inspiration for their hyperkinetically maudlin ditties in Wes Anderson’s films and soundtracks, and those who appreciate the colliding emotions, precious British Invasion nuggets and unsettling pauses which are the hallmarks of those features will likely dig their sound." - Connect Savannah
"Simon & Garfunkel meets Mitch & Mickey... What sets Homesick Elephant apart is its sincerity. Songs like Margaret Thatcher Appleby and Shoestring Love Affair are sure to grab your attention and make your heart weep." - www.CampusPhilly.com
If you don't have myspace, you can contact us by emailing homesickelephant (at) gmail (dot) com
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1.7.09: We made a new music video courtesy of My Record Label.net! So go on over to their website (www.myrecordlabel.net) and watch it (on the front page!)! The video is for the version of the song "Hold Me Close" that we recorded with a full band in Nashville (also courtesy of Myrecordlabel.net)
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PODCAST! We did a living room session with Nathan Moomaw of Gazebo Music (San Francisco). Listen to it HERE . There are lots of new songs that no other recordings exist for! Check them out - it's a preview of our next album.
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Homesick Elephant is an indie-folk duo whose heart-wrenching harmonies, old-time instrumentation and homespun sincerity make you feel like you're a character in a Wes Anderson Film. Sara and Kevin met in September of 2003 and immediately began playing music together. Their main projects have been Cheese on Bread and the Nace Family. They formed Homesick Elephant in the Spring of 2006 before leaving their home in Philadelphia to move out west to Los Angeles. In their little house in Silverlake, they sing together nightly after dinner while cleaning the kitchen and updating their myspace page....
It's really insane that we weren't myspace friends already! I could have sworn that I added you guys awhile back. Oh well, it's fixed now. We should do open mic night when you're in town if at all possible!
Awesome! And weirdly .. probably at the time you were in starbucks listening to our song on their system, i was telling a friend who is moving to LA about homesick elephant!! Uncanny! Gonna go see Dan at sidewalk tonight. it's his bday! Go Obama! Claire
"The Cinema Bar is the oldest drinking establishment in culver city typically packed with people in search of great music and an unpretentious watering hole to call home. "
Thank you so very much. Let it be known that we love your harmonies also, as well as many other elements of your songs. We will perform in the show of which you speak on the condition that there is at least one hyena present. And if all goes ideally, the performance will take place on a train anyway so we won't be forced to make any tough decisions.
