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MP3 Snowblink - Interim at Afton Villa EP
8 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Modern Folk, ROCK: Folk Rock
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"As Snowblink, songbird Daniela Gesundheit makes hushed and eerily gorgeous music with a rotating cast of musicians, backup singers, and assorted whisperers. Gesundheit''s voice is exquisite — a warbly, smoky, and delicate thing, somewhere between Jolie Holland and Cat Power. Her alias means "a white sky glow reflected from snowy fields," which aptly captures her sound, which is as crisp as a clear morning after a blizzard. "Ruby" is a showstopper."
---- Flavorpill SF
Daniela Gesundheit was conceived in Las Vegas in July 1981.
Snowblink was conceived in Los Angeles, twenty-three years later.
Snowblink is the songs of Daniela Gesundheit played on electric guitar
featuring a rotating roster of four-to-seven boy back-up singers,
fiddle, harp, pedal steel, and party trumpets. Flavorpill SF described their music as “hushed and eerily gorgeous” and Gesundheit’s voice as “exquisite—a warbly, smoky and delicate thing.” Their festive performances often err on the side of theatrical, with bells and party-poppers dispersed throughout the audience and sounded at the
moment of an on-stage cue.
Gesundheit was born in Los Angeles in the early eighties to Susan Lynn, a fourth generation Californian painter, and Jaime Joseph, an architect raised in an orchard in Mexico. They divided their time between LA, Malibu, southern California deserts, and the dormant volcanoes of the eastern Sierras. From these and other travels, Gesundheit culled a recurring tidal wave dream, an aversion to cold temperatures, and a pair of deer antlers that she has since affixed to her brother’s hand-me-down electric guitar.
While Snowblink is currently based in San Francisco, the project has
members all across the US and Canada. The band members, located in San
Francisco, Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, Nantucket, Los Angeles, Lopez
Island, Ireland, Middletown, CT and Northampton, comprise a veritable
"little black book," on call should a tour bring Gesundheit to their
city. When in New York City, the men''s back-up choir may include
members of Brooklyn-based MGMT; when in Montreal, Gesundheit may be
joined by a group of Quebecois chanson singers.
Snowblink has released two records independently since 2004: Interim
at Afton Villa and My Oh My Avalanche. Interim was recorded during a return to LA in 2004. Gesundheit had an upstairs neighbor who would slam his pepper grinder into his floor if she played too loudly, so the songs cae out hushed. My Oh My Avalanche features the boy back-up singers, harp, pedal steel, and fiddle, and was recorded in
Los Angeles, Berkeley, San Francisco, Toronto, and Middletown,
Connecticut in the Spring of 2006. The first track, Ruby, was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered in September of 2006. Two of the tracks were produced and recorded by Toronto’s Dan Goldman. My Oh My Avalanche is currently printed in a first-run limited edition format, with embossed envelopes and wallet size photos of the band.
Gesundheit has toured extensively throughout the US and Canada in support of My Oh My Avalanche, playing a breadth of venues ranging from small house concerts and art galleries to opening for Patti Smith. She will return to the East Coast and Canada in the Spring to sing on a record with string arrangements by Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy, and to complete another tour.
During a brief return to Los Angeles in 2002-2004, Gesundheit was an active participant in a range of LA performance art and dance troupes. In 2003, she was featured in the New York Times for her performance in Collage Dance Theater’s Sleeping With The Ambassador under the direction of Heidi Duckler with music composed by
EAR Unit''s Amy Knoles. She also performed in the NOW festival for dance at the Disney Concert Hall in 2003 with Company of Strangers.
Gesundheit’s training in South Indian Classical Vocals, Composition studies with Anthony Braxton and Alvin Lucier, experience with various performance art and dance troupes in Los Angeles, and being a published poet bring an undertone of complexity, both in composition and performance, to the deceptively simple form of quiet folk songs.
The members of Snowblink include Una Ni Flannhagan, Ethan Leinwand, Ben Goldwasser, Andrew VanWyngarden, Robby Kunkle, Pat Wolf, Caley Monahon-Ward, Tristan Gutner, Franc Lyon, Leah Frost, Laura Goldhamer, Owen Roberts, Dave Wilson, Flavie Leger-Roy, David Bujo, Sebastien LaFleur, Dan Goldman, Aaron, Smith, Ben Popper, Schuyler Whelden, Abby Bader, Grace Kiriakos, Rebecca Lehrer, Alex Reisner, Max Goldberg, Jack Reilly, Mike Sempert, Samara Glassman, Barbara Gruska, Jayme Stone, Neil Haverty, Isla Craig, Kurt Swinghammer, Mia Sheard, Andrew Connors, Matthew Colvard, and Gene Baker.
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