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.
I love to wrap myself in your songs on a cold May day, and that's what we have here in New York. I have "one room palace" on the player today. So I signed in to tell you I'm glad I discovered your songs on CDBaby those years ago. Come to NYC someday, hey?
really in love with make up my mind and the weight. I would like to listen to your first album, maybe I buy the two next week. Cheers from Spain! Germán.
Come to this show, dammit. Vote for Pedro. Also, vote for Young Has Beens - 4/17 thru 4/23 at the B2B website (click the poster, dammit. Dammit. DAMMIT.
Thanks for adding Rambles. NET to your friends' list!
Hey, if you would like your music to be considered for a feature on our site, be sure to send a couple of review CDs our way. (You can find the mailing address on our page.) We love to share new music with our readers!
We’re a new label in the bay area named Happy Note Records & we just wanted to say hi to the local bay area music community. Producer Charles Xavier relocated to the bay area from L.A. and he’s looking forward to performing in the bay area as often as possible. Happy Note Records has just released “The XMan Cometh – Expect the Unexpected,” which is available at www. Amazon. com and at www. iTunes. com www. happynoterecords. com
Hi Odessa. We've made you our featured artist on the Sirens' Muse webpage. Check it out, listen to the latest Sirens’ Muse, see playlists, and more... http://www. wpvm. org/sirensmuse xoxAJ
Your song "Kill the Lights" is utterly beautiful. I cannot get your haunting, ethereal voice out of my head. You are a truly brilliant artist and I thank you for this gift...