Nicole Skeltys (keyboards, electronics & vocals) and Tanya Andrea Stadelmann (vocals & visuals)
Influences
Here's a video clip to: "Feelings Never Felt Before"- made by Tanya.
Sounds Like
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The Jilted Brides are a psychedelic folk/electronic duo from Melbourne, Australia. Psychedelic in the original Greek means ’clarifying the soul’.
Tanya sings and creates video projections for our performances, Nicole
sings, plays keys and writes and produces the songs.
We formed in December 2007. And we have just finished our album Larceny of Love. Larceny of Love is divided into two ’sides’ - psychedelic ballads then electronic hymns. We have put up a selection of the ballads and one of the hymns, we hope you like them:-)
Tanya is a vocalist, video artist and photographer. Her channel is youtube.com/tanyaandrea. Nicole is a song writer and producer, with a long background in electronica (B(if)tek, Artificial) and also more recently, folk rock (Dust).
The Jilted Brides sing about heartache, the dark night of the soul,
spiritual yearnings and desire. Our music is both sacred and profane, just
like love.
We sound a little like a cross between Leonard Cohen, Air and The Carpenters, Boards of Canada and Bobbie Gentry, Brigid Bardot leaning against the easy snap and click of drum machines, old organs and ’70s synthesizers. Our 808 has been drinking:-)
Many thanks to some special people who did some session work on the album: Mark Gardiner (guitar), Gavin Vance (bass) and Graham Lee (pedal steel).
We are very honored to be working with Kuba Fiedorowicz, who is one of the most gifted visionary painters in the world. Kuba is currently creating the artwork for ’Larceny of Love’, and you can see some of his paintings in the images that accompany the songs ’Feelings Never Felt Before’ and ’Lot to Learn’ on this site. Tanya has provided the images to the other songs.
We will be heading to Canada in May to perform at the New Music Festival in Vancouver and then head to the US for a series of gigs, including at the fabled Terrastock psychedelic festival in Kentucky in June. We will be documenting our adventures and gigs via a web-TV diary. Before that, we’ll do one show in Melbourne, a ’happening’ to introduce our songs to the world, show Tanya’s visuals, Kubas paintings, raise funds for our tour, party with our friends and no doubt display many other fine people and their creations.
Unfortunately we can’t afford to manufacture any copies of Larceny of Love before we leave Australia as we need every cent for a our big trip! Any offers of sponsorship or financial assistance to help us with the CD/ tour most gratefully accepted!! We hope to do a small pressing when we get to the US. Meanwhile, if you want to hear the CD, you can order one through our Pay Pal account and we can send you a lovingly hand-made CD package. Our address is: thejiltedbrides at nicoleskeltys dot com.
Things are happening fast for us, so stay tuned for frequent updates:-)
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Hey there ladies, love the sound, especially the tune Lot to learn. Cool production. I love that name too "The Jilted Brides. Keep me posted if you come to the states. Cheers, John
