PHAMIE GOW - accoustic lever harp, electric harp, piano, accordion, voice, whistle (Scotland)
PHAMIE GOW QUARTET:
Bastos - Guitar (France)
Benilde Foko - Bass (Camaroon, Africa)
Micheal Santanastio - Drums (Italy)
PHAMIE GOW INTERNATIONAL QUARTET:
Bastos - Guitar (France)
Rogelio Jara - Drums (Argentina)
Stuart Watkins - bass (Canada)
Influences
Sting, J.S Bach, Toumani Diabate, Louis Armstrong, Tori Amos, Carlos Núñez, Astor Piazolla, Chris Armstrong, David Gray, Dido, Djivan Gasparyan, Gotan Project, Cheb Mami, Paco de Lucia, Silvio Rodriguez, Skydance, Solas, Violetta Parra
Apart from those direct musical influences, the things that influence me most are people, nature, art, cycling, flying, travelling, poetry, words, languages, meditation...........the good and bad things that happen in the world.
Sounds Like
"In Gow's capable hands, her electrified harp easily shifts between heavy metal and ethereal celestial music." 14th October. 2007. The Globe and Mail. Canada.
"Award-winning harpist Phamie Gow was astounding to listen to as she
created sounds with the harp one would swear was three or four
different instruments." SooToday.com 24th October. Canada. 2007
Hi there! Thanks for checking me out on myspace. Let me introduce myself. My name is Phamie (that sounds like Jamie with an F) Gow and I am a musician, composer, recording artist that plays the lever electric and acoustic harp, piano, and sing. I also always love to work with new, and exciting musicians, dancers, actors, poets, writers and performers.
I like the idea of breaking boundaries with the harp and changing preconcept ideas people tend to have about this instrument.
I have really enjoyed working with artists such as Philip Glass, Band of Horses, Ray Davies, Marisa Monte, Carlos Nunez, Kepa Junkera, Alan Stivell, Ashley MacIsaac, Eddie Reader, Alisdair Fraser, Tom Richardson, Mattie Foulds, Fraser Fifield, Karine Polwart, James Graham, and many more. I had the great pleasure of being invited by Philip Glass to perform in The Tibet Fund raising Concert in The Carnegie Hall in New York City in 2008. That was totally awesome!
I love working with musical souls where music is the language no matter what mother tongue you have. For example I will always remember doing a lovely collaboration with the African kora player and Griot from the Gambia, Bajaly Suso. When we got together, he hardly spoke any English however his kora and my harp were the tools in which we could exchange our language, which was music.
I think my musical education started really in mothers womb!! My mother used to always listen to harp music while she was pregnant with me, and I am sure that is why as a child I always wanted to play the harp! However I started with the piano at the age of 8 and that gave me a great musical grounding and understanding (it still does). I then taught myself to play the clarsach/ scottish small harp (thanks to my parents for renting it!) with the aid of a cassette tape and tutor book and listening to an old record my parents had of Robin Williamson from The Incredible String Band. 6 months later, at the age of 12, I gave my first public appearance. It was at that point, that I knew I had realised my dream! The dream that I still am living today which is to communicate emotions, experiences, stories through music.
I wrote my first musical composition at the age of 15 called A Japanese Water Garden which I later recorded on my first album, Winged Spirit. It was at this point where I set up my record label Wildfire Records and Publishing and have since licensed to other record labels such as Universal ltd. This was the first of my 5 self produced and self penned albums to this date.
By the age of 19 I was given my first major musical commission which was to write an hours worth of music. This was part of an award (one of the first 'Danny awards') I won in the worlds biggest celtic music festival, Celtic Connections. I also had the fantastic opportunity to have a wish list of musicians which meant I could choose whoever I wanted to work with (within reason of course)! I wrote Lammermuir, my 2nd album featuring Alasdair Fraser, Eric Rigler, Patsy Seddon, Mairi Campbell and a few other fantastic musicians.
My third CD Dancing Hands was studio recorded in 2005 thanks also to the SAC for their support. I had a number of my favourite musicians on board with me too, Karine Polwart, Fraser Fifield to name but a few.
2007 finally had the release of my first piano solo album, Moments of Time. This cd is dedicated to Ronald Stevenson, my mentor and great friend. He taught me the piano and many things about life. You can see a video here called 'Rackwick Bay' which is a track taken from the album.
Last year, 2008, I released La Vida Buena, The Good Life, which is a purely electric modern harp CD, with a few added vocals, low D whistle and a bit of percussion. This time I'm offering a very modern slant on harp music. Some tracks have a mediterranean feeling which has naturally come through having lived in Barcelona the last 2 years.
I love creating and encourage creativity in whatever form it may be. I also love sharing music with everybody, especially when people do listen and enjoy. I consider myself very fortunate to be able to travel the world and meet amazing people and learn about different cultures and share my own creativity.
Please feel free to check out my other myspace if you are interested in reading more about my piano CD/project Moments of Time. www.myspace.com/phamiegow_moments
The Tibet Concert. 13th February 2008. The Carnegie Hall. NYC.
Directed by Philip Glass, Ray Davies, Band of Horses, Marisa Monte, Nawang Khechog, Ashley MacIsaac, Sufjan Stevens, and Tom Verlaine. (photos here by James Salzano). Phamie was sponsored by Lyon and Healy Harps, Chicago.
Black Suede has just recently released a New song titled "Revenue Stream." We know you have great taste in music. Drop through and let us know what think about it. Your Opinion Means a lot!
In the magicalities of a could, Between the probabilities of a would, Beyond the trivialities of a should, In these ungraspable mysticalities There lies a secret a passage… To this extraordinary wood.
But for you, it unfolds easily and true And the only thing you have to do Is press play, and you’ll have a view.
Coucou Phamie, un petit bonjour du pays des fromages qui puent !!! j'espère que tout va bien pour toi et que tu reviendras nous voir un de ces jours.... Bisous jean
hello Phamie how are you have been ? I been on twitter and have Filmmaker Paul McGuigan from Glasgow and off and on in LA you ever had word of him? hope all is well
It is a pleasure to have you as my new MySpace friend… I find your MySpace page, your talent and your enthusiasm for music pleason’ to many… I welcome you’re other MySpace friends to visit my MySpace page that I’ve dedicated to my admiration of many talented guitar playing musicians of many styles… Stop by check it out and leave a comment if you like… Thanks Ken…
feel free
to order my latest CD "WATER DEALER" for € 12,99 / $
19,37(shipping included) at our shop http://www.iapetus-store.com
the first 40 persons who will order the CD and pay via PayPal will get
the bonus CD "Dubaware Soundsystem" for free!! prosperous
time for you...
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
Let us present a little comment, That in this very particular moment, Presents happiness for lack of rejection That turned into invisible connection Of ThiSpace and ThaTime friends One so sturdy, that it never ends, And a little video it sends...
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