Odessa Chen :: vocals, guitar
Devin Hoff :: upright bass (of Good for Cows, Nels Cline Singers, etc.)
Rich Douthit :: drums (of the Drift!, Jargon, Boxcar Saints, Winfred E. Eye)
Influences
Jeff Buckley, Songs:Ohia, Elliott Smith, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Sinead C'Connor, Sade, the Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, David Darling, Francois Rabbath, Iron and Wine, U2(early), Hildegard Von Bingen, Brahms, Bob Dylan, Benjamin Brittan, Pink Floyd, Guns and Roses (Appetite), Bruce Spingsteen....
Hey everyone, thanks for all the friends requests! but i sometimes get kinda overwhelmed so if you want to please send me a personal email letting me know why you'd like to be friends. I sometimes don't get to the friends requests for a long time. thanks! odessa
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With a voice that brings together the intimacy of Songs:Ohia and the ethereal force of Sigur Ros or Jeff Buckley, Odessa Chen's music has been described as wintry, intelligent, haunting, and tender. Her debut album, One Room Palace, explores themes of love, longing, beauty and death with accomplished lyrics, a fingerpicking guitar style that is almost classical, and arrangements both sparse and complex. For live shows she is joined by Rich Douthit (of The Drift) on drums and Devin Hoff (of Nels Cline Singers and Good for Cows) on double bass. She has been interviewed on NPR, and has a growing national audience. A guest vocalist on recordings by Charles Atlas and Thee More Shallows, she is currently at work on the follow up to One Room Palace.
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4 track EP, titled Call Signs, it provides the perfect introduction to
the band prior to the release of their debut album, Grappling Hooks, in
early 2010.
North Atlantic Oscillation's "Hollywood Has Ended", from the forthcoming album Grappling Hooks, is featured in this month's Police Box compilation from TenTracks. It's here:
In case you haven't heard, TenTracks is a new music delivery service where you can buy exclusive 10-track compilations for £1, i.e. a mere 10p per track.
This month NAO are in the illustrious company of the excellent Found, Orkestra Del Sol, Fence Collective luminaries James Yorkston and King Creosote and exactly 5 others. Once again, that's £1 for ALL TEN TRACKS. Not bad, really.
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