some who have crawled inside: radiohead, bjork, david bazan (pedro the lion), neutral milk hotel, propagandhi; grew up with pearl jam, the cranberries, rage against the machine ... also listen to plenty of damien jurado, sufjan stevens, the arcade fire, postal service, the shins, death cab for cutie, blonde redhead, iron & wine, sigur ros, pinback, mirah, bright eyes, eisley, the weakerthans, american analog set, brown feather sparrow, flaming lips, ratatat, kings of convenience, anderson ...
Sounds Like
when a small felt-covered hammer hits a piano string...
Here's a Holiday Cartoon Cover of 'Baby it's Cold Outside'
(w/ band Built for the Sea)
"There are those moments where you hear someone play music and you say, 'Holy Shit. Must record.' Terri [Winston, Women's Audio Misson] was teaching a basics recording class, when student Lia Rose opened her mouth to sing and Terri had the moment mentioned above ... It's obvious what Terri heard, Lia's voice is captivating and beautiful..."
--Tape Op Magazine
"Few band names seem more SXSW-appropriate than pop outfit Built for the Sea. In an ocean of songwriters, singer Lia Rose is as prepared as anyone to breech the vastness. Able to sound loud and delicate without falling beneath the roar of her band, Rose sailed above the late afternoon heat for a set that proved memorable..."
--7x7 Magazine
"Built for the Sea took the stage next and put on the night’s most impressive performance....the band’s tight instrumentals and the strength of Rose’s dreamy vocals and lyrics inspired a call for an encore at the end of Built for the Sea’s set - pretty impressive for a middle slot."
--West Coast Performer Magazine
Music first came to Lia Rose in an instrument that seems far removed from popular music -- wind chimes. As a child, her family owned a musical wind chime business in Southern California. "On the weekends, I'd get up at 4:00 a.m. and jump in the ‘chime mobile’ – off to sell the chimes with my mom and brother,'" Rose says, “I thought it was a normal thing for a kid to do.”
As Rose grew she was surrounded by music and spent a lot of her time playing the guitar. She found herself trying to figure out the various unusual musical instruments lying around the chime shop and, at age 15, she wrote her first song. But then Rose gravitated towards chemistry and mathematics, prompting her to move to the Bay Area as a science student at UC Berkeley. After graduation she finally returned to her musical roots when she stepped into the local limelight as a member of a popular San Francisco group, Minipop. She began to write more songs, learned to play the bass and the piano and then, in December of 2005, she formed her own band, Built for the Sea.
For the past three years, Rose has spent much of her energy cultivating the sounds of Built for the Sea. She has often said that she craved “a big sound” for her songs. That’s what she got. And her band’s oceanic indie rock has earned them spots at the SXSW Conference (‘07, ’08), San Francisco's Noise Pop festival (’07, ‘08’ 09), and the Live 105 studios. The Bay Area quartet released their self-titled debut in 2006 with a sound said to land somewhere between Mazzy Star, Radiohead, and The Cranberries. Live 105 DJ Aaron Axelsen has praised their music as "very mesmerizing, very hypnotic."
Throughout her years with Built for the Sea, Rose has also written songs that don’t demand such a “big sound”. She has been encouraged all along to record her more delicate solo material and she is finally doing just that. Armed with a voice that cuts straight through to the heart and a newly found courage to “go it alone,” Lia Rose is working on her first solo record at long last.
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I couldnt be more excited to hear that your working on a new solo record! I love secret stories. Can't wait to hear it when it's done :) Hope your well!
Thanks for the add, Lia. Best of luck with your own music project (the original kind). If this humble bunch of fakers may take liberty with the immortal words of "Uncle" Neil Young, keep on rockin' on the Left Coast!
Glad for the add, Lia. I love your voice and sound. If you wanna trade CDs, shoot me a mailing address and I'll send you mine, and you can reciprocate if you like. Thanx, Smiley
