Damien Rice........OMG! I'm feeling moist.....

[Dover]

I just heard him for the first time on Carson Daly's show.

I can't breathe.........pant pant. Stopped me in my tracks.

I immediately went to Amazon and ordered his "O" album...
The most mature singer/song writer with words and music that goes so deep you may never find your way back. Particularly the song, Blower's Daughter...........yum. Can't wait to hear the whole thing.

Review:
Irish troubadour Damien Rice doesn't so much reinvent the folk genre on this lush, impossibly mature debut album as push its boundaries in several compelling musical directions at once--all the more remarkable considering the album was largely self-produced and home-recorded. His songs revolve around familiar, bittersweet concerns of life, love and their attendant frustrations, but delivered with conspiratorial intimacy on melodic wings that (like on the graceful "Cannonball") Rice seems almost embarrassed to share. If there's anything like a template here, it's "The Blower's Daughter," the song that first attracted the interest/stewardship of film composer David Arnold (whose guest production provides "Amie" with expansive cinematic elegance) and became a massive Irish hit. His plaintive vocal, embroidered by the mournful solo cello of Vyvienne Long, is suddenly brightened by an instrumental flourish and Lisa Hannigan's vocals--before just as quickly wafting on the breeze. With touches that range from "Day in the Life"-styled string collages to the dizzy, exhilarating neo-operatic excesses of the 16-minute "Eskimo," Rice's musical palate here is as adventurous as his songs are grounded in emotional intimacy.

[NashVegas]

1. It's a Very Good Album

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sorry, I'm just not feeling very descriptive this morning.

[Dover]

2. How did you learn of his music?.......n/t

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[NashVegas]

7. Back Over the Summer

He played a live radio broadcast show in Nashville from a local club back in June-ish. Just him and his guitar and several loops. When you get the album, you'll know what he was doing with them, or at least get an idea :)

[Character Assassin]

3. I've got a number of solo, in-studio cuts from his KCRW performance

On 'Morning Becomes Electic', including the astounding 'Eskimo', and a live track from FM104 (wherever the hell that is), "Be my husband", a Nina Simone track, and finally "Woman Like a Man" from a concert in Passua, Germany.

Drop me an email if you'd like me to email them to you, if size permits, or I'll try to upload them to a website for downloading.

The KCRW 'Eskimo' track is most astounding.

[Dover]

4. Not familiar with the KCRW performance. But then I'm new to this

artist.
The "O" album I ordered has Eskimo on it. Is that a different version?

How does the email thing work? I've never downloaded any music so don't know what's required. If I CAN do that, I'd LOVE for you to send it.

[Character Assassin]

5. KCRW is THE FM public radio station in S. California

Based out of Santa Moncia City College, if memory serves, that has spawned shows and careers, for that matter, and is the source station for 'This American Life', 'The Show' by Harry Scherer, etc...

They have some shows that invite performers in to play their music (or that of others, if they wish) acoustically, live, in the studio.

Some examples are Beck, Los Lobos, Spiritualized, Tom Waits, Ben Harper, Elvis Costello, REM, Sygur Ross, Aimee Mann, etc.... There have been some stunning performances on the shows which are "Morning Becomes Eclectic" and, on weekends, "Weekend Becomes Eclectic". Some of the performaces are available as 'Rare on Air' compiliations, some are on Kazaa, etc...

www.kcrw.com

So, yes, the 'Eskimo' version is quite different, just him and a guitar and a mic.

[Dover]

6. Thanks for the link! Do they have D. Rice's performance archived?

I'm going to go search the site to see what's available. It also looks like they sell a CD with various performances from different artists throughout the year.

[RichV]

8. If I can recommend another artist...

check out Bain Mattox. Similar style of artist. www.bainmattox.com

I saw him play last night here in Atlanta. :)