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Album: Uptight
Released: Apr 12, 2011
Label: Dorado Music, Inc

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    Sad week... #boston #west

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    INCREDIBLE session today. Tmrw brings more. Much more!

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  • Nick Flavell

     Great Music Natalie!!!!

    1 year ago
  • kieb

    New song by Kieb "Im in ta that"

    ALMOST 1,000,000 hits on myspace  doing a show in Detroit june 16th on 2pac Birthday im showcasing this song..thank you very much for the support..Kieb
     http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_8624584
    New song Im shocasing in Det june 16th @ Blondies check it out an lemmi know what you think..thanks   kieb..facebook.com/Kieb Isawsome..

    2 years ago
  • Angiart - Illustration …

    I have been a fan for years - I love your music, it is an inspiration!  :)

    2 years ago
  • Butterflies Radio

    Butterflies Radio is proud to have your song " Uptight" on our rotation.Please check out all our web links on www.butterfliesradio.com Many thanks Carol

    2 years ago
  • only in the mornings

    New stuff...!? Wonderful. Your music inspires my own....

    2 years ago
  • D R (Producer)

    Hope your New Year is off to a great musical start! D Rod/Life

    2 years ago
  • Sandra Smith


    Hello... i love your music...

    2 years ago
  • Sesame Ellis

    Thinking of you and wishing you and your family a magical holiday season blessed with peace, love and joy!
    May you have a safe and wonderful Christmas, full of warm memories, serenity and laughter!
    May all your dreams come true in the New Year and be it full of wisdom and an abundance of happiness!
    http://www.myspace.com/513190575

    2 years ago
  • SAbrIel Dunstan

    lovely profile :)
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    2 years ago
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    2 years ago
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General Info

  • Genre: Electronica / Pop / Rock

    Location Everywhere, Please select your region, Un

    Profile Views: 596806

    Last Login: 8/15/2011

    Member Since 1/5/2006

    Website www.Natalie-Walker.com

    Record Label www.dorado.net

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Electronic textures, intimate revelations – that's the fundamental formula of Natalie Walker's evocative, elemental, bluntly emotional new album, Spark (Dorado Records). Spark finds the Indiana-born, Colorado-based singer-songwriter, whose prior work has been heard on Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Bones, 90210, Smallville and Entourage, among other places, hitting a new creative plateau. With her richly expressive vocals floating in elegant, spacious instrumental settings, Walker explores powerfully personal territory on tracks like the reflective "I Found You," the questing "Sunday Afternoon," the gorgeous life lesson "Mars" and the delicate first single, "Uptight." She also shows her adventurous side, feeling the rush of a humid Brooklyn night in the sensuous "Cool Kids" and diving headfirst into desire on the swooning "Against the Wall." Spark – which also includes a ravishing cover of the Smashing Pumpkins' "Galapogos" – occupies a sonic sweet spot between pop and electronica, but it's more attuned to the demands of her storytelling than to any musical pigeonhole. Walker crafted half the tracks with Ted Bruner (Katy Perry, Ke$ha, Plain White T's) and half with Dan Chen and Nate Greenberg of Stuhr (Mya, Nicole Atkins, Bebel Gilberto), the Brooklyn-based production team behind 2008's With You and her 2006 solo debut, Urban Angel. Yet Spark is remarkably consistent; its jewel-box arrangements never crowd the song, incorporating eclectic instrumentation such as MiniMoog, vocoder, Fender Rhodes, cello and harpsichord . Creating it, however, was a bit of a journey. Walker flew to L.A., meeting with a string of writers, but didn't click with any of them. Then she encountered Bruner. "I walk into Ted's studio – it's dark and he's got a discoball going," she remembers. "Instead of saying 'Let's come up with a hook,' he wanted to know about me. He asked all kinds of questions. I got impatient, but he said, 'I can't work with you if I don't know your story.' Then I got it." Bruner's unorthodox route led to the incandescent song "I Found You." "I revealed things about myself in that song that I'd never said publicly," she relates. "But Ted refused to let me include a single detail that wasn't true." The song crystallizes Walker's deep connection with the physical world, notably the awe-inspiring night sky of Colorado. The intensely personal attributes of the material, though, made Walker feel reticent. This – along with what she admits is a bit of burnout after a decade of songwriting – delayed her return to the process. At last, though, she resumed work with Chen and Greenberg – and returned to L.A., where she wrote three more tracks with Bruner. Among these was the revelatory "Sunday Afternoon." "That song was serious therapy," she says. "It's about my journey away from conventional religion." At 20 or so she eschewed formal services; instead, she'd spend her Sundays drinking beer, strumming guitars and singing made-up songs on a rooftop with her best friend. She called these sessions her "church." Later, she traded in her six-packs of Heineken for snowshoeing jaunts in the Colorado Rockies. The song describes "looking for God on a Sunday afternoon," and it's clearly something she still does in her own way, whenever she can. Like her spiritual pilgrimages, Walker's musical search has taken her to an array of locales, including Philadelphia, where she sang in the trip-hop outfit Daughter Darling before going solo, meeting up with Brooklyn-based Chen and Greenberg, and journeying to L.A. in search of a new muse. During that time she's gathered such champions as Jason Bentley (of trendsetting L.A. noncommercial station KCRW); electronica luminaries King Britt and Thievery Corporation; and Sofia Coppola, who placed Thievery Corporation's remix of Angel's "Quicksand" in her film Marie Antoinette. It has also seen her incorporate an array of influences – not only homegrown hip-hop and indie pop but also the classical music and bluegrass she gravitated to as a child. She has explored them all over the years, but on Spark she is clearly in command of her deepest musical instincts – and ready to sing about her own life and convictions with unprecedented candor.

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    Natalie Walker (vocals) John Stenger (synth, piano) David Mason (drums) John Davis (Bass) Aaron Nevezie (Guitar) .. Produced by: Natalie Walker, Dan Chen & Nate Greenberg.. .. All booking inquiries read and considered: contact@dorado.net

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    peace.

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