Sarah Gillespie - guitar & vocals,
Gilad Atzmon - accordian, clarinet, sax & harmonica,
Asaf Sirkis/Josh Blackmore - drums & purcussion,
Ben Bastin - double Bass,
Billy Adamson - guitar,
Emma Stockton backing Vocals
Also feat on album:-
John Turville - piano
Sameer Makhoul - voilin & oud
Influences
Bob Dylan, Velvet Underground, Cat Power, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Joan As Police Woman, Be Good Tanyas, John Lee Hooker, Édith Piaf, Radiohead, Cole Porter, Billie Holiday, Yusef Islam, Robyn Hitchcock, Van Morrison, Jane Siberry, The Pixies, G Love & Special Sauce, Tori Amos, Pogues, Ivor Cutler, Brenda Khan, Robert Johnson, both Buckleys. suspension bridges, Urdu poets, foul-mouthed cockneys, Larry David, Heisenberg, Bessy Smith, William Faulkner, Rushdie, Nabokov, Walt Whitman, Charles Burkowski, Rumi, Lorca, GM Hopkins, Williams Carlos Williams, Alfred Stieglitz, Ginsberg, Collette, Curly, Larry, Moe, Wayne Shorter, Charlie Parker, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & many many more
Sounds Like
"She's an incandescent new presence who matches her imposing delivery with superior lyrics."John Fordham, **** The Guardian - - - A major new singer songwriter...Sarah Gillespie is one of the most individual yet recognizable voices to emerge in some time. All About Jazz - -
'a leftfield singersongwriter...wry lyrics and sinuous melodies'. John Bunjey, Mojo ****
"Haunting tunes and striking lyrics.... these songs are by turns tough and touching as well as being full of humorous asides such as the notion that the Girl from Ipanema has ended up as tabloid fodder...yearningly pretty and bitter sweet" Howard Male The Independent ****
Excellent Greenwich born singer-songwriter Gillespie crafts acoustically-styled songs that shimmer with beauty while accompanying herself on finger-picked guitar. New album 'Stalking Juliet' mixes blues, jazz, vaudeville and gypsy swing... very much a talent to watch' Time Out - -
Lyrically full of sly observations and witty put-downs, and sung in a powerful bluesy howl yet full of intimate conversations asides...Gillespie looked every bit the arty, quirky and ironic author of her songs. Norwich Evening Press - -
“Gillespie’s fiery originals offer a contrasting combination of sweet folkish melodies and a lyrically witty, street-talking attitude, that transports Lou Reed and Dylan to multicultural London.” Jazzwise - -
'A powerfully expressive voice.. with lyrics in the realm of poetry' Eastern Daily Press - -
‘Sarah’s voice fills the room – distinctive, smoky and seductive with a bluesy edge’ Get Rhythm Magazine
A sonic reflection of the contemporary London street, Greenwich-born singer-songwriter Sarah Gillespie delivers a melting-pot mix of urban-folk and middle-eastern blues. Expect emotive ballads & raucous gypsy swing incorporating pre-rock elements of blues & vaudeville - with her trademark lyricism that knits everyday banter with raw poetry.
Sarah performs regularly on the London circuit @ diverse venues inc Ronnie Scots, the Borderline, the 606 Club, the Vortex, Pizza Express Dean St as well as Arts Centres, festivals and venues across England. Her dynamite band features internationally renowned Israeli-born jazz artist, Gilad Atzmon on accordion, clarinet and saxophone, Ben Bastin on double bass and Asaf Sirkis on drums. Her debut album Stalking Juliet is out in April 2009 in Egea Records.
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NEW VIDEO FOR SINGLE HOW THE MIGHTY FALL
Don't miss... DUB COLOSSUS “IN A TOWN CALLED ADDIS” Wednesday 8 JULY Dingwalls Camden Lock "as if Lee Scratch Perry were producing Ethiopiques" FT 12-piece band featuring musicians direct from Ethiopia www.dingwalls.com
4-7 of June - FINDAMORALE FESTIVAL 2009, HOXTON, LONDON.
with SUPER double bills from Paris on 5th and 6th of June featuring
1) - HADRIEN FERAUD (Bireli Lagrene, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea) and RUMEURS
2) - LINLEY MARTHE ( Joe Zawinul, Mino Cinelu, Dave Liebman, Trilok Gurtu, Richard Galliano) Project. You will have a rare chance to see these two bands on one night for the price of one!
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Thanks so much for the add–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!
We hope you and your friends enjoy our music, too. We've just added four new compositions and two new blogs about Umano.
We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.
It also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.
We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.
What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
Hi Sarah, actually that charlie's gig is off,must take it off the site, shame, the pic...maybe it was on Andrea's camera? Hope to see you soon, sounds great, ta for listening J xx
