Mei Lai Swan is Triple J Unearthed's Top Song comp winner for the NT!
Influences
In no particular order... joni mitchell, bjork, nina simone, jill scott, sodastream, missy elliot, tori amos, jeff buckley, portishead, massive attack, fiona apple, bach, joanna newsom, pirates and whores, m'um, boards of canada, cinematic orchestra, gotan project, miles davis, gillian welch, catpower, ayub ogada, rokia traore, david bowie, cleis pearce, astor piazzola, cocteau twins, tom waits, frou frou, angus and julia stone, sufjan stevens, ben harper, jolie holland, ani, belle and sebastien...
Sounds Like
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'CALLING THE SKY' available now only on iTunes
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Out through Vitamin Records.
MC MEI LAI in... Standstill, a TAC cinema clip by filmmaker Callum Cooper, with the Curse ov Dialect boys, a la 2004... ah the good ol dayz... too funny!
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NEW SINGLE RELEASE 'Wedding Day' out on digital, Feb 8 through Vitamin Records:
Wedding Day is the first taste from Mei Lai's forthcoming debut album due for release later this year. Produced by Jake Savona (Mista Savona), it is a wry take on the heady rush of falling in love that plunges you into the blind belief of the fairytale wedding, that unfortunately lacks the fairytale ending…
For a girl who grows up too fast there are two options: get old quick, or live life a little backwards. Mei Lai was a smart girl, so she chose option two...
She sings, she plays, she dances, she kanoodles, she cracks whips, n sometimes a few other circus tricks. Oh sometimes she even… ah, not even!
But some old habits die hard. Especially geek habits: edit geek, study geek, party geek, sneaker geek…
She likes... geeks, whips, shakers n tambourine, big trees, people who talk loud and sometimes inappropriately, red dirt, scrabble, music that makes the soul sing or the booty shake, neuroscience (geek), friends who perform fun things, justice, and big bold boundary-pushing adventures.
She’s done some pretty fun things: played all round the country and at some pretty cool festivals with her band. Adventured overseas with famous Thai artists, Transylvanian gypsies and Somalian pirates (ok, that one was made-up). Played and recorded songs with a bunch of talents like Lothlorien, Love Outside Andromeda, Ned Collette. Made lots of cool tracks with Aboriginal kids in the desert. Toured internationally with Chamber Made Opera somersaulting down staircases. Played violin upside down from a trapeze in the circus. Started a brand new electro-trash-pop project called Bullet Electra...
But that’s not this project: Mei Lai sings out a thumping heart that’s full to bursting, plays cello, loops it up, programs a few beats, a touch of violin, maybe a little keys. She has a drummer, a double bass player and a hot little trumpet player and together they grow some pretty nice things. She has an EP out (The Morning Tree, 2007) and has just released the first single, 'Wedding Day', from her debut album due for release later this year...
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