The Shimmer - No Surprise At All [ mp3 ] the Shimmer, a brother and sister pair, David and Jade Hanks they play esoteric pop songs, like this pseudo rockabilly demo they've been recording in with producer Luke Smith (Depeche Mode, Foals) their debut single will be out on Hit Club in the spring
When two of my favourite blogs (namely Illegal Tender and Fucking Dance ) start singing the praises of a new duo, only a fool would ignore it. And the band they have been talking about? The Shimmer . The Shimmer are brother and sister David and Jade Hanks, who you may know as The Mono, but all that really matters is that they make punchy, dark and emotive pop wonders. Now you put them in a Napoleonic fort with ex-Clor genius Luke Smith to record, and you get a diverse mixture [...]
if you know what's good for you, you'll have been checking out the flawless set of tips for 2010 by Illegal Tender . if so, you'll have already come across the following band. The Shimmer are a duo comprised of brother (David) and sister (Jade) who make obscenely good, dark pop music. currently recording in a fort, the forthcoming output from this band is something i am awaiting impatiently. i have a bunch of demos from when The Shimmer were The Mono and if their new stuff sounds even remotely [...]
top photo : Džesika Devic Brother-sister duo The Shimmer used to be under the name of The Mono - reasons for change we can only guess at for the time being, but a shimmer sounds more exciting than a mono, I suppose, and the word "mono", well, it's sort of a contradiction considering there's two of them. Anyway, they've got big plans, one of which is to release a debut single with Hit Club (we're talking the guys [...]
Last week I posted about the first of the three This Land is Your Music shows at The Mill Restaurant in Iowa City featuring Pieta Brown and selected regional artists. Last week's show featured Pieta in a solo acoustic setting. This week's show featured Pieta in her most common live configuration- in a duo with Bo Ramsey . This was a show I was really looking forward to as it also had Bo as the opening act as a solo acoustic performance, which I hadn't seen before! As much as I look back [...]
In the middle of her solo performance at The Mill in Iowa City Thursday night, Pieta said to the small crowd, "It's like I'm playing to you in my living room!" Pieta was referring to the small crowd on Thursday night, but the stage was adorned with a chair and nightstand as well as lamps and an old dress form giving the stage a homey touch with lighting designed by Stan Crocker , who has done a lot of lighting design for TV shows like CMT's Crossroads. Last night was the first night of a three-week artist-in-residency [...]
Acclaimed producer Don Was literally pulled off to the side of an L.A. freeway when he heard the voice of Pieta Brown live in the studio from trendsetting radio station KCRW. A few phone calls, emails and months later, Brown and guitarist Bo Ramsey met up with Was at his home to play him some new songs. Wanting to capture her remarkable voice "unadorned", Was grabbed his bass and joined Brown and Ramsey in the studio, mixing the impromptu sessions live as they went down. The result is the wondrous Shimmer (November 10, Red House), a [...]
Pieta Brown and The Iowa City Mill have announced a three-week residency in November called "This Music Is Your Land" and will have Pieta exploring her catalog in various solo and band configurations as well as showcasing local musicians. The shows will take place the first three Thursdays in November: 11/5, 11/12, and 11/19 and will start at 8PM. The tickets will be $10. As the daughter of Greg Brown, Pieta grew up surrounded by the fertile and tight-knit Eastern Iowa music scene. It was this scene that gave Pieta the launching pad [...]
When I saw Bo Ramsey and the Mystery Lights at the Mill back in May, Pieta was kind of hanging back in the shadows of the dark bar and helping her sister sell some Bo Ramsey merchandise. After the show was over I took the opportunity to ask her about her record label situation. After being signed to One Little Indian for her last album, the brilliant Remember the Sun from 2007 the follow-up Flight Time EP was released on T-Records, which incidentally is the label she used to release her 2003 EP [...]
i think it was a mistake releasing this song last fall. it's obviously made for summer use. looking forward to getting lifted and biking around midtown with this blaring on my headphones. should be glorious. friendly fires - skeleton boy
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Hi peoples,I'm glad to present you this time Joyce Rooks ,from Southern California, United States. She join the label with a smooth Jazz, Dub reggae, Chilly moods EP, that I really enjoyed from the first listened time.... Warm tunes rich of soul , perfect to listen in these cold days, in your chill out pub / bar / etc... or in your home with your sweetheart.... With this Ep, deepindub show again that's open to all musical styles, like past mixes such us [...]
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