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Sleep
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Sleep
Released: Mar 9, 2010
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    Sleep

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    Tell Me You Love Me

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    Why is the Sky

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    Dig Deep Down

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    Polly

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General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Americana / Down-tempo

    Location London, London and South East, Un

    Profile Views: 35761

    Last Login: 8/8/2011

    Member Since 9/27/2006

    Website reverbnation.com/laurastark

    Record Label BMI

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    "Cool and austere like lemon ice, yet warm and rich like melted chocolate" is how this emerging singer-songwriter's sound has been described. Stark's torch songs for a twisted age present a sultry twang as seen through misty London days... and it's even darker nights. Composing, writing songs, and playing in bands since her early teens, Stark moved to London from Texas in the early 1990's and began a path to pursue her passion for music full time. She found herself moonlighting writing instrumental soundtrack music and a theme tune for a TV-pilot, had a song commissioned for a Swiss Air ad campaign, and even sang on a dance track for a British indie film. Stark was signed and began working as a singer and lyricist with a Japanese acid jazz label in London where she even recorded a track alongside Simply Red's Kenji Suzuki. Working as an occasional Club Promoter and Night Club Photographer, she soon began to play solo in London's best acoustic venues and attracted the attention of some of the UK's top musicians, including drummer Neil Conti (Deep Forest, Prefab Sprout, Annie Lennox, Eno, Bowie) whose kinetic style gives an edgy tension to Stark's dark vocals, and London's own pedal steel maestro, BJ Cole (Alabama 3, R.E.M., Beck, Sting), who can go from country twang to ambient atmospherics with one swoop of his slide. Conti has also produced Stark's new album at his Magic Circle Studios in the South of France and the latest addition to the album is the guitar work of Van Morrisson guitarist, Dick Farrelly, and a duet featuring the romantic crooner of Irish band PERRY BLAKE. Stark has played at some of the most famous venues in London's Soho and West End, such as The Borderline, Tin Pan Alley's 12-Bar Club, Tony Moore's Kashmir Club, the legendary Ronnie Scott's, and also The Colony Room, famous for launching the career of The Magic Numbers recently. She has opened for many well known acts in the UK, including Tuvan throat singing punk group Yat-Kha. In the US, she's opened for punk country twangsters, 16 Horsepower, at the famous Slim's club in San Francisco, as well as other gigs in LA, Austin, Memphis and NYC including Meany Fest, Folk Alliance, and SXSW. She has also performed live and had airplay on Internet Radio stations both in the US and the UK, and was a featured performer and guest on BBC Radio. "Lush but simple, the style modern but timeless, rootsy but fresh, like a gourmet meal prepared from humble, earthy ingredients...", this music is a fusion joining Texas and London at a well-holstered hip and radiating towards all forms of sultry, sexy melancholy. Stark's music captures the memories of the heat, space and quiet of Texas through an alternative prism from years in The Big Smoke, showing that you can never really take Texas out of the girl, or her music.

  • Members

    Laura Stark (lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards), Neil Conti (drums, percussion, keyboards, electric bass, and programming), BJ Cole (pedal steel), Chris Clarke (double bass), Dick Farrelly (electric guitar)

  • Influences

    Texas memories and all forms of sultry, sexy, hypnotic melancholy, david lynch films, and singers and artists such as scott walker, david sylvian, emmylou harris, mazzy star, nina simone, julie london, billy holiday, johnny cash, kristin hersh, the cowboy junkies, patsy cline, kd lang, alison krauss, aimee mann, suzanne vega, chris isaak, beck, the eels, nick drake, jeff buckley, cesaria evora, habib koite, salif keita, cocteau twins, the smiths, this mortal coil, mazzy star, cowboy junkies, cat power, david lynch, cassandra wilson, lisa gerrard, dead can dance, kate bush, peter gabriel, john cale, brian eno, hector zazou, ry cooder, early and baroque music, portuguese fado, brazilian samba, tango, flamenco, african guitar picking and the music of Mali, appalachian, bluegrass, irish and celtic traditional music, indian classical music, harmonic singing, gamelan, and of course, frank sinatra, sandy denny, serge gainsbourg, jane birkin, gilberto gil, carlos antonio jobin, and not to mention...romance, love, loss and longing, hope and melancholy, beauty in sadness and dreaming...

  • Sounds Like

    "Lush but simple...modern but timeless, rootsy but fresh, like a gourmet meal prepared from humble, earthy ingredients," is how a music critic once described Stark's sound. These are torch songs for a twisted age...a twang seen through misty London days...with lots of "ghosts and horizons and sky", this is music that lingers and haunts you...

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Sleep-The Sunset Video

The Making of Video for the new single "Enough is Enough"

Sometimes-The Bullet Train Video

Live gig from Bristol w/ BJ Cole 2009

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  1. Laura Stark

    A new favorite: The Inimitable Jeeves by Captain Cooper http://t.co/XuRzkQx4Ly on #SoundCloud

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    My new songs: Dig Deep Down http://t.co/tClUJGa1eb on #SoundCloud

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    My new songs: Why is the Sky http://t.co/buGlevtvLo on #SoundCloud

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    A new favorite: The bridge by Pascal Glanville http://t.co/Bz7D831cbB on #SoundCloud

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    A new favorite: Wondrous Love Variations by Timothy Hill Music http://t.co/utsI4yGTk1 on #SoundCloud

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