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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9866 Posts |
 Posted - 04/02/2013 : 19:14:31
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BASIA BULAT, brother Bobby on drums & Alison Stewart on viola.
Go On..solo...QTV below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBn21IiBHKk
Basia Bulat (born April 13, 1984) (pron.: /#712;b#594;#643;#601; bu#720;#712;l#594;t/),[1][2] is a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. She is known for performing with an autoharp.[3]
Basia Bulat grew up in Etobicoke, Ontario[2] where her mother was a music teacher[4] who taught piano and guitar. She is an honorary member of Ontario's "Polonia" Polish community.[5] She has said the radio at home was permanently tuned to an oldies station.[6] “I don’t think I realised the radio had more than one station til I was 11 or 12,” Basia Bulat says.[7] She attended the University of Western Ontario where she received a degree in English; she also took some classes with Olenka Krakus, also of Polish descent, of the band Olenka and the Autumn Lovers.[9] While a student there, she was coaxed by friends into opening for Julie Doiron[10] and soon gained a local following.[2]
She released an independent EP in 2005 and was subsequently signed to Rough Trade Records, which released her full-length debut album, Oh, My Darling in April 2007. The album was later released in Canada by Hayden's Hardwood Records.
Her singles "Snakes and Ladders", "Little One" and "I Was a Daughter" have been playlisted on CBC Radio 3 while various tracks have received airplay on college radio in Canada and the United States. Her album Oh, My Darling made the short list for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize.[11]
Bulat has toured across Canada, the U.S., Europe; in June 2008, she ventured to Australia. She played the 2008 Dawson City Music Festival in the Yukon. Bulat cited the week she spent in the quiet and remote location as an inspiration for her songwriting.[12]
Her second album, Heart of My Own, was released by Rough Trade Records in the US and Canada on January 26, 2010.[13]
Discography
* Basia Bulat (2005, EP)
* Oh, My Darling (2007)
* Touch the Hem of His Garment (2008, 7")
* Heart of My Own (2010)
The album received a fair amount of favourable reviews, as indicated by the aggregate score of 72 at Metacritic.
The album is a longlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.
"Heart of My Own" was awarded the second spot in Exclaim! Magazine's 2010 Folk & Country Year in Review music rankings. The album was praised for the rumbling, rollicking edge in many of its songs, "The arresting vocal and autoharp simplicity of "The Shore" demonstrates the fundamental talent at work, one so transcendent that it hints at a timeless soulfulness that Bulat is still at the outset of channelling."
Heart Of My Own
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15POdsjvjxg
Run
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxrdNw_A1Jw
Gold Rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrGahFOq5w4
December
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4eGZfMnydg
Oh My darling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=0PMBIxssu7Y&feature=endscreen
RUN--studio version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pj9-6Mc-b4
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Soundboard-
By: Jen Reid
Currently working the boards in support of her debut album, Oh My Darling, an effort that has been declared "breathless, thirsty, dislodged from dreary nostalgia," Basia Bulat brings an infectious personality to the stage. You can't help but like her and her strong, clear, yet slightly reedy and warbly voice that reminds me of a prettied-up and toned-down Buffy Sainte-Marie. You also have to like a woman who whips out a ukulele to match her little black dress.
That and more greeted the Lee's Palace crowd who packed the house (to the point that this reviewer had one hell of a time getting in) for her Canadian Music Week appearance. Sharing a bill with the likes of Elliot Brood, and Cuff The Duke, Bulat held her own and captivated the crowd with her multi-instrumental talent.
It seems unfair to use adjectives like "haunting" and "plucky" for the musical style of a highly competent female artist when it seems that, everywhere, and all the time, we're dreaming up new ways to make male artists sound hardcore even if they're playing elevator music.
But that's Bulat. One moment she's upbeat, and plucky. The next, she's haunting. She's also got a vocal range that can cover the deep country blues and forlorn angle, and bright, uplifting pop numbers like "In The Night".
And no review of Bulat's show would be complete without mention of the plethora of instruments involved. Autoharp, ukulele, fiddle. This is some deep, rich music. The crowd ate it up – at least the one in the main pit. I have to admit that there was enough sound-space remaining in the house for the noise at the back bar to be somewhat of a factor. I don't think Bulat intends a sonic assault, so that may be par for the course.
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Edited by - lemonade kid on 04/02/2013 19:15:16 |
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Basia Bulat-Canadian Americana Folk Rock on Q TV
