When making an album, recording live is the musical equivalent of doing your crossword puzzle in pen. It's risky. If one member of the band falters or delivers a performance that's less than stellar- it shows through in the playback and you pretty much have to record the whole song over. There are very few opportunities to "punch in" where you left off in this kind of recording environment. Because of that, engineers often steer bands away from live recording. When it's done right, though, it's gold. The Album becomes a testament to a moment, an honest feel for the bands [...]
From his recently released album "Drunk With Translation" Geoff Ereth is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Fountain Valley, CA. His music has been described as orchestral folk due to the arrangement and use of orchestral instruments in support of the modern folk song. An advance of his debut full length album, "Drunk With Translation" was released on 9/2/08 in the US iTunes store and is scheduled for official release sometime around 1/2009. Geoff currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. [Last.fm] [...]
Geoff Ereth is a Brooklyn folk artist who's just getting off his feet. I got turned on to Mr. Ereth when he sent me an email with some tracks off his debut album, Drunk With Translation . I was interested when I read that he recorded the album with "osso", the string quartet that also records with Sufjan Stevens and My Brightest Diamond . Geoff's orchestral folk definitely fits in nicely with the preceding two artists, so I can see why they worked together. Geoff's sound is a bit more organic and earth-toned though, kind [...]
"Surefooted" - Geoff Ereth Deftly arranged and smartly paced, "Surefooted" packs a goodly number of instruments into a brisk three and a half minutes, but the sound remains clean and uncluttered. There's piano and guitar and drums, there's a string quartet, a trombone, an interesting keyboard or two, maybe a woodwind of one sort or another--"orchestral folk" is what Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist Geoff Ereth calls it. But unlike much of what comes under the "chamber pop" umbrella, "Surefooted" leaves enough white space in and around its arrangement to feel fresh and easy rather than [...]
Geoff Ereth Genre: Other / Other / Other From: Brooklyn, New York United States Geoff Ereth is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Brooklyn who looks a little like a rough around the edges Will Young but that's where the similarities end. [...]
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