In these days of musicians counting myspace plays and friend requests as a way of measuring popularity, it's easy to forget that not too long ago the much lamented MP3.com was making stars of its own (and paying them, no less!) with independent artists racking up ten of thousands of plays. And some whose play count went from tens to hundreds of thousands, and then to millions.
Enter singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist Lobelia, whose profile on that original indie music portal lead her to places most independent musicians only dream of - lucrative sponsorship deals, a publishing contract and a feature in Billboard magazine. Playing in a duo with acclaimed British bassist Steve Lawson, Lobelia's sound blends hook-laden adult pop with a more spacial ambient sensibility reminiscent of David Sylvian, Talk Talk and The Blue Nile. Singing songs of love and loss, her star is once again on the ascendancy, with the coming year promising at least two new albums and more touring in Europe, the US and further afield.
I’ve put the latest song from the album In up for free download! As with the others, I could really use your help getting the word out about it! Because of all your help, these tracks have gotten out to way more people that I ever anticipated! Thanks so so so much! I’m going to start putting them out every week from now on as I find that two weeks is a little too long in between. Once all the tracks are out, then I hope you’ll all join me to hear them live! x
So welcome to the beginning of week 3 and the new release of the 2nd song from my new album In called I’ve Never Met Anyone Like You. Please download it and send it to as many people as you like. The first track had over 100 downloads in the first 3 days and over 185 total. Combined with my other fan exclusives on RN there have been over 650 downloads! That’s amazing! Hope we can match or exceed that with this track!
You’ll also notice there’s a share button on this widget. It allows you to grab this content and put it on your own site, myspace, facebook, or bebo and very much like being a virtual secret agent for the independent music alliance….uhm or something like that. x
Who’s that on the front page of reverbnation.com??? WOW! It’s me!!! You can help me to thank reverbnation by downloading my new tune The Sound of a Breaking Heart…for free! Just have a listen and then click the download button on the widget below. There’s plenty of other great content on my reverbnation page and lots of free downloads so have a look. And if you’re an artist who hasn’t yet signed up, I’m now giving you a virtual spanking! Thwack! Thanks peeps. x
What time is it? My internal body clock has stopped. Not on the one that goes…”hey honey, lets make a baby!” or the one that says..”Don’t you think it’s time to settle down?” but the one that tells me to wake up at 8am every morning and then lets me go back to sleep ’til 11. I usually fly from California, back to the East coast, and then back to the UK. That makes it a lot easier. This year it was the hardcore 10 hour flight from San Francisco over the Canadian wilderness. The real clock says it’s 3:47am, and I just ate some crisps and a larabar. Hellooo breakfast.
Random Facts
I’ve been getting all these requests for random facts about myself on facebook. Why am I acquiescing and doing your bidding? Cause I’m jet lagged and don’t yet have the brain capacity to do some real work. I could barely spell acquiescing. Hell, I could barely spell barely. Read the rest of this entry »
Hi lovelies. So everyone knows that I’m crazy about looping. I think it’s the most fun one can have outside of hog rasslin’ and whittlin’. So I thought I’d post a couple of the latest vids in case you haven’t seen them. Why? Because I like sharing. Why else? Cause I’m in desperate need of your approval. But seriously, we’re gearing up to do a nice little tutorial video on looping and using the Looperlative, which is the most amazing looper in the universe. Designed and built by one of the coolest and nicest people in the known universe as well. Do you know what that means? It means that looping has never been nicer, or more amazing.
So enjoy the videos and as always, speaking for frogs and rutabagas everywhere, I’m Lobelia. Good day.
This is a new song called The Sound of a Breaking Heart. I started the looping out on mute….which is a dangerous thing..cause not only you can’t hear what it’s going to sound like…I can’t either!!! Also, a nice example of what happens when you get an extra beat in the loop live. You just go with it and point upwards. 
This is a song called In, which I wrote for bass and voice when I was 19. I’d never done it live as it needed to have tonnes of harmonies and what not to work on stage. And only a short 249 years later Voila! Modern technology!
