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Caroline Weeks’ debut album, Songs for Edna, is to be made available on vinyl and for download in March 2009. This keenly anticipated collection will be released on the Los Angeles-based Manimal Vinyl. Caroline Weeks has been a part of Bat for Lashes for over three years and also previously performed under the name Ginger Lee but has now reverted to using her family name.
Born and bred on the Sussex coast, Caroline comes from a long line of musicians, in the 1920s the fifteen-strong “Weeks brass band” was famed across East Sussex, while, more recently, her Grandfather can be seen playing the church organ in the movie of Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm.
A classically trained flautist and effortlessly self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Caroline’s current weapon of choice is a three-quarter-sized classical Spanish guitar, which she uses to brew a heady mix of cantering finger picks and delicately decaying sound shapes, where the spaces are just as important as the notes. Add to this her own “secret” tuning (which has been known to flummox even the most competent of guitarists looking to have a quick strum in the Green Room) and you have a truly original sound.
All of this is then topped of by the voice of an English Rose. Her songs are both powerful and at the same time fragile; and to hear Caroline sing is to witness English folk music tradition colliding with a contemporary stitching of everyone from Nico and Joni Mitchell to Kate Bush and Vashti Bunyan.
Born and bred on the Sussex coast, Caroline comes from a long line of musicians, in the 1920s the fifteen-strong “Weeks brass band” was famed across East Sussex, while, more recently, her Grandfather can be seen playing the church organ in the movie of Stella Gibbons’ Cold Comfort Farm.
A classically trained flautist and effortlessly self-taught multi-instrumentalist, Caroline’s current weapon of choice is a three-quarter-sized classical Spanish guitar, which she uses to brew a heady mix of cantering finger picks and delicately decaying sound shapes, where the spaces are just as important as the notes. Add to this her own “secret” tuning (which has been known to flummox even the most competent of guitarists looking to have a quick strum in the Green Room) and you have a truly original sound.
All of this is then topped of by the voice of an English Rose. Her songs are both powerful and at the same time fragile; and to hear Caroline sing is to witness English folk music tradition colliding with a contemporary stitching of everyone from Nico and Joni Mitchell to Kate Bush and Vashti Bunyan.
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RudiganRex wrote:
She should release another album! Her voice is so amazing!
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thisisenxy wrote:
love love her music!!!
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adam_kahan wrote:
you should do a gig in berlin, really nice haunting sound :)
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trulycocaine wrote:
<3
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Feebrile wrote:
wow
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Carnecaliel wrote:
Great album, so haunting and beautiful <3.
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harvey-thepooka wrote:
She did a warm-up for a Bat For Lashes gig I went to earlier this year. Beautiful, mesmeric, and utterly charming.
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cruel_spark wrote:
Caroline Weeks 8/09/09 - Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA. http://recordingla.blogspot.com/2009/08/caroline-weeks-80909-spaceland-los.html
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sue_lucero wrote:
how can I get her music??
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lunatic0angel0 wrote:
Just discovered her. Her music is some of the sweetest I've ever heard! <3
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Bayou16 wrote:
i like her voice :)
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alfakir wrote:
like like!
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enah wrote:
Full of imaginations. not only for ednas.)
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starkafka wrote:
Elegy is truly mesmerizing... <3
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Caroline on Resonance 104.4 fm
25 Feb 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/Caroline Weeks
I played 3 songs on the radio last weekend, on the Dexter
Bently "Hello & Goodbye" show on Resonance 104.4 fm - it was
loads of funIt is currently listed on the website if you fancy a
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Caroline on Resonance 104.4 fm
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14 Aug 2008 | from blog.myspace.com/Caroline Weeks
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