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"I'd see her anytime, anywhere." -Chris Macintosh - WCWP Radio-Long Island "Genuine, honest, and heartbreaking. Brooke Campbell delivers music that is both stirring and satisfying." - Jennifer Rosa-Founder/Producer of Music Forum & The Stoop Concert Series (TheStoopNY.com) This is an unassuming 4-song EP, at first glance, but once it warms up it turns out some very solid songs with some fine lilting vocals laid atop complex and contorted melody lines. “Ice Covers the North” really shows off Campbell’s muy bonita soprano. The bare bones quality of “Sparkle” gives off some luminous light with a swell violin-vocal interplay. And “Invalid” is a spare piano ballad in the spirit of Tori Amos. She’s pretty soulful for a white girl, on this small sampling, and she’s clever enough to weave in and around those difficult, floaty melodies that hang in the air throughout the album. Some might say she sounds like Edie Brickell, but the tone of her voice is better and more appealing. She’s a talented performer who has obviously only scratched the surface of what she’s capable of. The key is to be able to get the ideas, if they’re any good, from your head into the world intact. Ms. Campbell’s got it goin’ on so far. -Impose Magazine Interviews: CAUGHT IN THE CAROUSEL-March 24, 2013 A Kind of Hush http://caughtinthecarousel.com/interviews/1573 DENON AUDIO INTERVIEW- January 7, 2011 In the Spotlight with Brooke Campbell Denon presents an exclusive interview with Brooke Campbell, folk, pop, and bluegrass singer-songwriter known for logging her journey through life in her music. Brooke’s songs are mostly about her life. When she performs up and down the East Coast, she plays everywhere where people are willing to sit and listen to her soulful songs- playing at colleges, listening rooms, and prayer meeting venues. Tell us about yourself. I’m a singer/songwriter, living in New York City. I grew up in Whiteville, N.C., a small town near the coast. When did you first decide to become a musician, & what inspired you? Well, I guess I didn’t decide to become a musician; it just started pouring out of me one day. In college, I learned to pray, which I realize, is not typical. But, as soon as I did the music started coming and it hasn’t ever really stopped. When did you first fall in love with music? Oh, well the 1st two examples that come to mind when I think about music really opening my heart are singing in the car with my Mom. We would sing harmonies of anything we knew-songs from the fifties, old hymns, Christmas songs in the summer, whatever. The other is with some friends of mine who would gather on a pier at a lake near my house. The guitars would invariably come out. This was long before I played, but God, did I love hearing them and singing along. There was a lot of James Taylor and Indigo Girls. What is your idea of SOUND Bliss? There are many states of sound bliss, I suppose. My favorites are extreme clarity-when you can here the rustle in the breath of a singer on a spare recording, hear him readjust the guitar in his lap to reach the next chord or mood within himself. I also love extreme ambience, when the particulars are swollen out into the great mass of the song and the song itself becomes it’s own universe. When did you first hear of DENON? I learned about Denon when I met David Frederick on a plane home to North Carolina. We struck up conversation about the city, which led to music talk. Who are your favorite artists today? And who is doing work that really inspires you? To be honest, when I live in a big city, I don’t listen to that much music. I crave the silence. I am inspired by other fields. Buildings are important to me. I lived with a couple of architects this year and being around all of their models, watching them cobble ideas out of tissue and cardboard even before that was so amazing to me. Also dance. I have a few friends in the modern dance world here in New York. One friend, whose company, Bodyart, I worked with on a live music/dance piece. We also made a video that I love a lot. It’s on the 1st page of my website. Dance begets lyrics and melody for me. As for music that inspires me – as long as it tells the truth, especially hard truth, I’m usually a fan. If you could own a piece of sound equipment that would enhance your music or home theater experience, what would that be? Good headphones! Catch Brooke Campbell by going to her personal website, where some of her songs, like “Stretched Toward You”, can be downloaded. Her album, “Sugar Spoon”, is available for purchase, with a new album slated to come out this Spring. Brooke will be playing at the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn on February 5th, with more dates available to see on her website. |
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