Susie Ahern was brought up on great music. Her parent's record collection boasted The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Haley and the Comets, Louis Armstrong. She was also introduced to Motown courtesy of the jukebox at the Bowling Alley where her father worked in London, where she would sit and listen to tunes over and over again. And then there was Suzi Quatro, the first album she ever bought...very cool!
By the time she migrated to Perth with her family, it was apparent that the young girl who used to stand at the kitchen sink practising harmonies for church had music in her veins. She penned her first song at just 13, a tune she describes as, "A wonderful little ditty called 'Making Trax For Home'. I was in a band called Trax and the song was about something to do with surfing, which we were all in to; it was very cute."
Coming from a family of high achievers, Susie says that becoming a musician wasn't a viable career option. "I always wanted to be a singer but didnt think it was possible. So I went to University and got a degree so that I could have something solid to fall back on, but nearly every night I was out until all hours playing with an original band in Perth. I was very tired by the end of the degree. Music had taken over my life. In the end I found I had to sing and write for my own sanity!"
When it comes to songwriting she takes her cues from the Leonard Cohens, Peter Gabriels, Stings and Joni Mitchells of the world, artists who aren't afraid to bleed on to the page. "The best lyrics are the open / honest ones. I do feel exposed. It's very confronting sometimes and I wonder why on earth I have to hang everything out like I do. However, when I see someone really touched by a song I've written, I'm reminded."
Like breathing, songwriting is something she has to do. Susie explains, "I always feel that I'm not actually writing at all. It's more of a channelling experience. Not in a Shirley Maclaine kind of way," she quickly adds. "It's more like there are phrases and ideas floating around just outside of every day consciousness, all I have to do is tap into it. Sometimes I have felt very strongly about a particular song and it will not leave me alone until it is written."
To date, Susie Ahern has enjoyed a successful career. Since moving to Melbourne in 1984, she has toured / recorded / performed with some of the most respected names in the industry: Kylie Minogue, Renee Geyer, John Farnham, Wendy Matthews, Joe Camileri, Vika & Linda, Diesel the list goes on. In 2004 Susie released her debut solo album, 'Women Are Different', to critical acclaim. She also found herself working with John Reid (manager of Queen, Elton John, etc) on TV's X Factor. 2006 has seen Network 7 employ Susie as vocal coach for their hit show 'It Takes Two'. Currently, Susie is in the midst of recording her new album, HURRY UP AND WAIT, a title she says is indicative of her career. "It's how the Industry has always been for me. It seems like it has never been my time and yet I've always been quite successful. Its a weird juxtaposition."
Susie has teamed up with Producer Dorian West (who's worked with such luminaries as John Butler and Nikka Costa) for the new recording. According to Susie, HURRY UP AND WAIT is by no means Women Are Different 2. "The new album is taking on its very own life. I am astounded at how different it is. It seems like an evolution. It's a lot more positive and more soulful too. 'Women Are Different' was a great statement of where I was at and what I'd been through. I found a whole new vocal style through recording that album. With the new one I'm hoping to hone that style even further. I have a feeling it's going to be a lot more raw and soulful."
Can't wait.
Hello all, this will be our final release of 2009, and a great way to end the year... Pinklogik asked 10 artists and friends to remix her entire "Learning To Trust Higher Frequencies" album and what an eclectic and stunningly produced work this is. Each track has its own feel, thanks to the diverse range of artists involved in the project. A shimmering journey through ambient colours, broken beats, sweet melodies, a little bit of quantum physics, and is one hell of a trip....
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Also from S27...
[S27-030] MIN-Y-LLAN : Dark Days (Downtempo, Ambient)
We are fast approaching the last days of 2009, so what better way to celebrate than this release from Welshman "Min-Y-Llan" who offers us this collection of atmospheric ambient pieces, the melodies within are dark and cavernous, being the perfect listening for the walk home on a frozen winters evening. Each track has a very melancholic feel as if looking towards a future that isn't as bright as we hope for, but nevertheless are powerless to escape. Free download!
Thanks for the add! Visit my website @ www.myspace.com/tinaalc and check out the new song "Never Be Alone" produced and co-written by Erana and Christian! God Bless and Have a great Christmas Break!
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Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
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You're invited to the The CD launch Party on 20th August at the Northcote Social Club
with Special Guests
Ian Collard ,The Vanguards and Jake mason.
When They say Why....Tell 'em the Devil made you do it!
Salut, Merci a toi pour l'adds mes amitie a l' ajouter.Bonne soiree' gros bisous....JANE..
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