Band Bio:
"Puerto Escondido is like a breath of fresh air on a cool morning. It's got a jangly feel reminiscent of Tom Petty coupled with an infectious groove and an honest voice...
Leave it to an Italian to do Americana so well!"
Jim Donovan – founding member of the multiplatinum award winner band Rusted Root
I was born in 1984, in one of the coldest winters of last decades. People said that in this 22nd of January birds weren't able to stand up because of ice. I don't know if it's true but it's fine to believe in it ...it seems one of those "it was a cold and stormy winter" stories.
A country Italian child with a little bit of latin blood. I grew up near Parma, between autumn fog and summer wet warm. I approached to music as a young boy with Bob Dylan, Nomadi, Queen, Jon Lennon, Paul Simon. "Music was my first love" sang John Miles. And music was my best love. Then came Neil Young, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Fabrizio de André, Cat Stevens, John Denver, Francesco de Gregori, Roberto Vecchioni, Francesco Guccini, Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Meat Loaf, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John. Started playng guitar at twelve and writing song a few years later. My first band was called "Voci Proibite". We played social involved song with an easy listening Italian music. These were the High School times, years of dreams and junkies.
Years which made me the man I am.
I started my solo career at the end of 2005, supported by Davide Buzzi, Gabriele Anversa and some other musicians.
And in 2006 I signed with the indie label "Green Production" from La Spezia. Three years of intensive work, three years of unfinished changing of music, lyrics and arrangements. Three years when I learned how to play guitar, how to write, how to sing. How to listen. I started a complete approach on American music. Mostly Tom Petty, Jackson Browne, Calexico, R.E.M., Warren Zevon, Johnny Cash, Talking Heads.
Years which made me the musician I am.
Website: www.reverbnation,com/emilerivera
Description:
Genre: experimental/folk/americana
Band Bio:
Chimney Choir came together just over a year ago and in that short time has written, recorded, and released two EPs, filmed a live DVD, and performed across much of the US. The Denver trio skillfully interweaves genres resulting in a "folk meets world music sound, steeped in psychedelia" (Concerted Efforts). All multi-instrumentalists, writers and singers- Kevin Larkin, David Rynhart and Kris Drickey change instruments (sometimes within a song) and sing in three part harmony- all while balancing field recording and computer synths with traditional acoustic instrumentation. Now Chimney Choir is touring in support of their most ambitious project yet - (ladder) - a full length live album of new music, recorded in a pipe organ chapel in front of a small audience. Guest percussionist Carl Sorensen plays a junk yard kit comprised of glass bottles, a PBR can, a bike wheel, nails and a trash can lid. The recording captures the synergy of the band and the crowd on a studio quality recording.
