Rebecca Zapen

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Beautiful Love Songs Without the Love

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Released: Nov 1, 2011

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Beautiful Love Songs Without the Love
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Colorado
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Genre: Classical / Folk / Jazz
Location Tampa, Florida, Un
Profile Views: 98551
Last Login: 3/24/2013
Member Since 7/8/2004
Website www.zapen.com
Record Label Bashert Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
{ Albums available at CD Baby and on iTunes}.... A third-generation musician in a family tree including players of violin, piano, double bass, guitar, and accordion, it's not surprising that Rebecca Zapen has developed into a versatile performer: classically-trained violinist, jazz crooner, and award-winning multi-instrumentalist songwriter. Barely out of the starting gate, her brand new folk-pop release, Nest, was awarded Florida Album of the Year 2011 by the Florida Times-Union and debuted at #12 on the Folk DJ charts. Her CD pre-release shows in her new home of St. Petersburg and hometown of Jacksonville have been sold-out and standing-room-only. Honors and accolades for Zapen's previous works include Best Album & Best Song (cabaret genre) in the Just Plain Folks Awards 2009, for folk-pop album Japanese Bathhouse, receiving 5 nominations. She was awarded Jacksonville's Musician of the Year 2008 (Florida Times Union). Recent career highlights include her performance as the musical guest on Public Radio International show Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?; original songs in a national promotion for Crocs Shoes; winning 2nd in the Bushman World Ukulele Video Contest and her resulting endorsement with Bushman Music Works. Zapen was a Finalist in the 2007 DiscMakers' Independent Music World Series. Other highlights include appearances as jazz vocalist with the Hollywood Philharmonic Orchestra, and as the mandolin soloist in Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra's production of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni. She is an award-winning composer, earning the Silver Medal of Excellence for Best Use of Music in a Short Film at the 2008 Park City Film Music Festival. Her original songs appear in Look Both Ways, which won for Best Music in the 2009 San Francisco Seven Day Film Festival. Her music has been featured on NPR's All Songs Considered: Open Mic. Past performances include Jacksonville Jazz Fest, Florida Folk Fest, Gamble Rogers Fest, and venues such as Hotel Cafe (L.A.), The Bitter End (NYC), and Paganini Auditorium (Italy). Zapen's first musical memory was that of sitting beneath the grand piano as a toddler, her ears filled by the sounds of her mother playing Chopin, Beethoven, and Mozart. Her classical music education began at age 3 with the Suzuki Violin Method, and culminating with her graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with music and biology degrees, attending Florida State University on a music scholarship. Her college years were filled with opera, orchestra, chamber music, and late night jazz jams. It was at FSU that she began a love affair with jazz, especially bossa nova. Since then, her musical involvements have been with groups whose styles include jazz, swing, classical, klezmer, country, folk, rock, and spoken word. Zapen has performed with or opened for artists such as Vassar Clements, Big Sandy & His Fly Rite Boys, Tommy Womack, Trisha Yearwood, Chris Botti, Anathallo, and David Bazan, and has played in musical groups, symphony orchestras, and music festivals in U.S., Great Britain, Switzerland, and Italy. Her versatile violin playing, pure clear voice, and ability to write nostalgia-infused music have earned her comparisons to Astrud Gilberto, Suzanne Vega, Leonard Cohen, and The Ditty Bops. Her influences include Stephane Grappelli, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chet Baker, and Nick Drake. Zapen founded her own record label in 2003, naming it Bashert, which is a Yiddish word meaning "destiny" or "fate". Her newest album of original acoustic folk-pop, Nest, has received such an overwhelmingly positive response, with sold-out and standing-room-only attendance at pre-release concerts, resulting in moving the release date to November 1, 2011. Featured tracks include Appalachian-tinged "Colorado", auto-biographical songs "Grandfather's Song", "Jacaranda", and "Lakewood", and lilting bossa nova number "Ledge". Rebecca's discography includes ZapStar (2006), featuring the Rebecca Zapen / Gary Starling Group's interpretations of jazz standards and even a couple of Beatles classics via their combo of guitar, upright bass, and drums, with Zapen on violin and vocals. Japanese Bathhouse was released in Fall 2005 after a European summer tour, with songs about anything from pirate love gone wrong to bread crumb trails to nudity in foreign lands. It won Best Cabaret Album and Best Cabaret Song in the Just Plain Folks Awards, held in Nashville in 2009. Relix describes Japanese Bathhouse: "Nothing adequately prepares for the way in which her deeply personal album instantaneously envelops and never loses its grip.... The title song and others bring to mind no less than early solo McCartney and Brian Wilson's SMiLE.... One of those near-perfect hidden gems..." During ZAPENation Tour 2006, Rebecca's acoustic folk-jazz-twang trio (with dobro and double bass) gave 22 performances during its six-week tour of the United States. Triple-single Songs of Bother and Woe (2005) gives a taste of her nostalgic indie folk-pop, with a sound that ranges from simple ukulele and vocals to lush arrangements of strings and brass, and musical accents from melodica and glockenspiel. Self-titled folk EP Michelle Payne & Rebecca Zapen (2003) is a collaboration in which Zapen mainly plays a supporting role, providing instrumental accompaniment and background vocals, and is spotlighted on her original "Every Song". Debut release Hummingbird (2003), is laden with bossa nova and blends violin, voice, sax, marimba, and rhythm section into a warm spacious sound.
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..{ Booking Info}.. ....Rebecca Zapen (Folk, Singer-Songwriter)....: Rebecca Zapen (vocals, guitar, ukulele, violin). Often joined by LaRue Nickelson (guitar), Jeremy Douglass (melodica). ....{ ALL ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON ..iTunes.. & ..CD Baby.. }.. .......... All-original folk album ....Nest.. Florida Album of the Year 2011 (Florida Times-Union). New Folk foraying into bossa nova, Americana, and pop. www.cdbaby.com/cd/rebeccazapen ....-------------------------------- .......... All-original folk album ....Japanese Bathhouse.. with critical acclaim from Relix, Tape-Op, Tasty, babysue, Subba-Cultcha and more. "Sails delightfully along between the waters of pop and jazz, with gentle breezes and soft ocean sighs to soothe you on the way." (Performing Songwriter Top 12 DIY Album) ....-------------------------------- ......ZapStar: Rebecca Zapen/Gary Starling Group (Jazz, Bossa Nova)....: Rebecca Zapen (violin/vocals), Gary Starling (guitar), Chelsea Chason (bass), Peter Miles (drums) ........ZapStar.., with their take on swing, bossa nova and ballad standards. ..Tracks: On the Street Where You Live, Like Someone In Love, It Might As Well Be Spring, How Deep Is The Ocean, It Ain't Necessarily So, Things We Said Today, Nuages, Bernie's Tune, I Only Have Eyes For You, When You Wish Upon A Star, I Thought About You, Here Comes The Sun ....-------------------------------- ........ Rebecca's debut jazz CD ....Hummingbird.. available on ..CDBABY.com... Features jazz standards, and 5 originals penned by Rebecca. Muppets fans, we did a version of "Halfway Down the Stairs". ....-------------------------------- ....{ ..View SonicBids EPK.. } ..
Influences
Suzanne Vega, Nick Drake, Jonathan Richman, The Roches, Stephane Grappelli, Elliott Smith, The Beatles, Tierney Sutton, Chet Baker
Sounds Like
An eclectic and diverse texture created by harmonized vocals, ukulele, guitar, violin, upright bass, and accented by melodica, glockenspiel, and brass. New Folk foraying into bossa nova, Americana, and pop .... Bon Iver, She & Him, Ditty Bops, Julie Doiron, Jolie Holland, Edith Frost, Astrud Gilberto, Sondre Lerche, Isobel Campbell, Feist, Damien Rice, Eleni Mandell, Sean Lennon, Suzanne Vega, Zee Avi .... ..Video: We Didn't Bother.. (Rebecca Zapen). Editing thanks: Chris Estes, RZ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Video: My Jacked Up Means Well You.... ..so rebecca and joel were having a rehearsal over here at the house for a show they have coming up and towards the end we decided to shoot a little video. we hooked the camera up to a bendy tripod and wrapped it around the head stock of joel's guitar. he laid down on the floor and rebecca and i played along to one of his songs. it has lyrics. there's a recorded version of it coming up on joel's record whenever we actually get around to finish recording it. but if you go to his myspace at www.myspace.com/joelmalizia i'm sure you can hear it if he's got it posted. if not, there's certainly a nice selection of his songs. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Historic footage from the New Piano Tap Dance Party. Oh, the ribaldry! ..(I apologize in advance for your imminent neck cramp. Embrace the sideways camera angle.) ....Tappa Tappa Zappa Zappa...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ....

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