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Well, after a very successful Off the Tracks Festival gig in Derby, I'm pleased to get this little video of a special performance in Canada on YouTube. Please do have a look and laugh your head off. Yes, Rob and I fought valiantly over this song in…
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thank you, CKUA.com, listener supported radio (and I did not bribe or pay anyone for this...I know it's a kickin' album).
Week one, and on the charts. I had to have fun with this....
LL.
Simply Beautiful...
The beauty of a music review is that words of praise sustain an artist when little else is coming in materially. Don't you find? While a critical mass is building, sometimes you're just slogging away at it: making calls, sending emails (last night f…
I think this is an articulate post on a very real issue here in the UK.
Speaking as a Canadian artist, returning with £900 in my pocket for TWO SHOWS in Canada, promoted with the help of both promoters (one a house concert, and another a dinner-caf…
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- LORELEI LOVERIDGE AND THE ‘MULTI-CULTURAL TOUR-DE-FORCE’ BAKHOOR
Bakhoor: Arabian Incense
Canadian artist Lorelei Loveridge lived for 11 years in Saudi Arabia, pre and post 9/11, and loved it. She experienced religious zealots, compound invasions, a terrorist chase, earthquake, tsunami, war in Lebanon, crazy drivers, nutty expats and more, and survived to tell the tales in story and song.
Her physical, personal, and musical journey is documented in Bakhoor, a 4-year, 15-song album project recorded in India, Canada and Saudi Arabia. It features some of the finest players from across the globe including Brian Hughes (producer of Loreena McKennitt), Harry Manx and Lester Quitzau.
A contemporary acoustic songwriter who draws comparisons with Tracy Chapman and Joni Mitchell, Loveridge pairs a passionate political sense with an understanding of the complex personal stories that go beyond politics. Loveridge and Canadian producer Rob Hewes have woven the sounds of tabla, oud, darbuka, Tibetan overtone chants, violin, bazouki, Latin/African/slide blues guitar into a richly-textured, multicultural tour-de-force.
While "Home is Where the Heart Is"—a song about the pain of a mother and her Palestinian daughter—is the first single off of the album, U.S. songwriter and guitar legend Dick Wagner says this of Loveridge and Bakhoor: "Her vocals are hauntingly emotive, her songs are beautifully structured folk/pop creations and her musicians are world-class interpreters of her musical vision…The brilliant 'Oh, India' sets the tone and atmosphere for this musical journey…a journey you won't forget. I personally love Lorelei's music and recommend it to all seekers of sophisticated yet accessible music."
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"Lovely voice…be very proud of where you have taken your music." - David Kershenbaum (Producer, Tracy Chapman)
"The album is brilliant." - Dave Ward, CKUA Radio, Edmonton, Canada
"A 15-track opus. Wow, this gal gets around!" - SEE Magazine, Edmonton, Canada
"Like the fragrance of foreign lands, the most memorable quality of the album might be the intangible social insights that seep out from between the lines of Loveridge's songs, on top of the potent images and stories she has woven into this entertaining travelogue...Despite the entrancing music, the greatest strengths of Bakhoor might be in the storytelling. Loveridge was in a unique position to observe the overlap of eastern and western cultures, clashing religious beliefs, rich and poor, terrorism and war, and documents the humanity with an acute vision." - Roger Levesque, Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Canada
"Astounding talent." - Julian Lewry Music, Godalming, UK
"Beautiful. Fantastic CD. So listenable, there's so much in it. The front cover is fantastic: 36 small pictures. Every time I look at the CD, I'm seeing something different. They're telling me a story. Oh, India is my favorite. I'm just so envious of the life she's led." - Ali O'Brien, ‘Ali O'Brien's Sounds of Folk' on Oldham Community Radio, Oldham, UK
"Finally Lorelei Loveridge, our visitor from Canada, entertained us royally with some from her latest album of which I Need To Go and Home Is Where The Heart Is...were outstanding." - Don and Heather Davies, Sale Folk Club, Sale
"Wow!! I’m sincerely enjoying these songs and can’t believe how well she tells a story in the lyrics. A lot of singer-songwriters think they have that ability but really don’t. Lorelei does and it’s clear she’s actually spent time in some of these places. Lived it. Not just travelled through in a 5-star." - Daniel Thompson, MyExpatRadio.com Radio DJ, Dubai, UAE
"Don’t miss her world; don’t miss her." - Debbie Busby, Folk Northwest for Acoustic Collective, Dukinfield Folk Club
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Lorelei Loveridge is a published songwriter, recording artist, performer, world-traveller, teacher, activist, arts manager, coach, consultant, writer, photographer, director of theatre, marketer, and jill-of-all-trades in the wonderful world of independent music making. She originally hails from Canada and is now based in Manchester, UK after eleven years in Saudi Arabia. Orderly Bazaar Records & Publishing is Loveridge's boutique label specialized in ‘roots, rock, ethnic, jazz, fusion and other travel-related shenanigans’.
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My Canadian music producer and me ARGUING in front of a live audience - the UN-VIDEO
Well, after a very successful Off the Tracks Festival gig in Derby, I'm pleased to get this little video of a special performance in Canada on YouTube. Please do have a look and laugh your head off. Yes, Rob and I fought valiantly over this song in the studio.
:)
LL.
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:)
LL.
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Posted on May 25, 2009 at 4:37am —
Bakhoor is JUST out the gate, and it's charted at No. 14, right below BEN HARPER!!!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thank you, CKUA.com, listener supported radio (and I did not bribe or pay anyone for this...I know it's a kickin' album).
Week one, and on the charts. I had to have fun with this...
LL.
Thank you, CKUA.com, listener supported radio (and I did not bribe or pay anyone for this...I know it's a kickin' album).
Week one, and on the charts. I had to have fun with this...
LL.
Posted on May 22, 2009 at 3:30am — 1 Comment
It really is something when someone does a music video for you.
An incredible honor, I think. Please view the video for album track "What You've Seen", produced by Greek artist Katie Mavromati.
The song is about my time in Malaysia. I was there when the tsunami in 2004 swept away people from the beaches around Penang Island, particularly on the Northern Coast. There in Georgetown, I was in the CHEONG FATT TZE MANSION, a UNESCO Heritage… Continue
The song is about my time in Malaysia. I was there when the tsunami in 2004 swept away people from the beaches around Penang Island, particularly on the Northern Coast. There in Georgetown, I was in the CHEONG FATT TZE MANSION, a UNESCO Heritage… Continue
Posted on May 19, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment
The beauty of a review...
The beauty of a music review is that words of praise sustain an artist when little else is coming in materially. Don't you find? While a critical mass is building, sometimes you're just slogging away at it: making calls, sending emails (last night for me it was an all night effort to contact every Arab/Palestinian filmmaker I could find online, and what an adventure that was).
The randomness of this business never ceases to amaze me, at least in the formative stages of building one's business u… Continue
The randomness of this business never ceases to amaze me, at least in the formative stages of building one's business u… Continue
Posted on May 18, 2009 at 3:08pm —
On tour in the UK and hoping to bring Bakhoor and the show your way...
Hello friends in the UK.
My name is Lorelei, there's a pile of information about me on my sites and on my http://www.myspace.com/loreleiloveridge site. I won't repeat it here.
Suffice to say, I'm on a projected 200-date tour of the UK in 2009-2010, to dig up the roots of my ancestors and to carry on my journey as an inquiring traveller and as someone who deeply and truly wants to know what makes us tick. As I share my stories and songs, I am equally intrigued by the stories of those whose path… Continue
My name is Lorelei, there's a pile of information about me on my sites and on my http://www.myspace.com/loreleiloveridge site. I won't repeat it here.
Suffice to say, I'm on a projected 200-date tour of the UK in 2009-2010, to dig up the roots of my ancestors and to carry on my journey as an inquiring traveller and as someone who deeply and truly wants to know what makes us tick. As I share my stories and songs, I am equally intrigued by the stories of those whose path… Continue
Posted on May 12, 2009 at 12:30pm —
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- At 8:30pm on May 14, 2009,
Amy Godfrey Arkle said…
- Hi Lorelei,
Thank you for your lovely message - it would be great to know you better. Spain is great - we're nowhere near Barcelona but I have been there and it's a pretty "happening" place. Hope you have a fantastic holiday. My internet speed is not great so I haven't managed to listen to any of your music yet but will do at the earliest opportunity.
Speak soon
- At 6:02pm on May 13, 2009,
gregg weiss said…
- hi lorelei,
no we haven't met. how are you finding your efforts to book off of this site?
- At 5:39pm on May 13, 2009,
Jan Willem Bos said… - Hi Lorelei, nice meeting you. I listened to your music compilation. I like it. Some different styles, very nice. So as a traveller what are you plans? You want to visit the Netherlands in th near future? If that is so, maybe we can find out some things. Let me know what you have in mind. Jan W
- At 2:12pm on May 12, 2009,
Jon McNamara said… - Hi Lorelei ...
Me a legend - hardly! More a has been - or may be a "leg end" - upper end! Must say I like your style amd music. I don't have too much time for this socialising (dogs to walk and a gig playing for the Morris this evening) and am not too good at it ... I "dip in" now and then when I can
Kind regards
Jon
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