Louise Le May


The Garden Session – Louise Le May (Download ONLY)

Four songs exclusively recorded for The Garden of Earthly Delights – Louise Le May is accompanied by Danny Manners:

  1. Broken Child
  2. Radium Smile
  3. Furniture
  4. Be My Guru

Tell Me One Thing That Is New – Louise Le May – £6.99 + P&P

  1. be my guru
  2. photographic
  3. the only fish
  4. coal-marble-stone
  5. war with love
  6. the only fish II (instrumental)
  7. be my guru II (instrumental)

Reviews:

“Time was, long ago, that I thought there could never be enough sensitive, breathy-voiced female singer-songwriters. Old and jaded as I am now, though, the merest glimpse of a moody black and white cover sends me spiralling into a state of ennui that takes a couple of double live Grobschnitt albums to dispel. And then along comes Louise Le May to dispel the decades of accrued cynicism.

This is quite simply exquisite; sensual and beguiling in the manner – though not style – of Kate Bush, with that kind of Englishness that draws you in like a rose-scented breath. Never slipping into fey quirkiness, even with the fluttering sonic trickery that opens the majestic ‘War With Love’, all the tracks possess a quietly fierce individuality. Maybe ‘individuality’ isn’t quite the word, though, as arranger and multi-instrumentalist Louis Philippe does a magnificent job, with layered vocals and glacial piano to the fore and other instruments – guitar, bass, string quartet – adding texture as necessary.” ****
- Oz Hardwick, Rock’n'Reel

“Exquisite…such a refreshingly original sound”
- Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

“A triumph. The arrangements are top-flight”
- Van Dyke Parks, Composer/Arranger

“I have been playing Louise’s absolutely beautiful and haunting songs incessantly. The arrangements are magnificent ”
- Jonathan Coe – Author of What A Carve-Up! and The Rotters Club

“Not since the debut of Carly Simon have I heard a “girl” with such artistic depth and ability to write a tense series of tonal angles, all packaged quite perfectly in a neat 4 minute song-format”
- Eric Matthews

“The richness of the vocal, the depth of the instrumentation, always finding new things to reveal. It’s just such a natural feeling album. Part dream, part cathartic, wholly inspirational songs.”
- Neil King, FATEA

“This is English music, honest and open. Louise’s songs are strange without being quirky and delivered with a settled assurance. She has the steady delivery of Judee Sill, but the harmonic flavour of Kate Bush or Robert Wyatt.”
- Sean O’Hagan, The High Llamas

“Absolutely wonderful. What a haunting voice and an equally haunting songwriter. It’s brilliant stuff, especially Be My Guru.”
- Fredo Viola

About Louise Le May:

Louise Le May is a singer and songwriter from Hackney in London – 5 of her extraordinary songs have been recorded as a mini-album officially released on Folkwit Records on 9 November 2009.

Credits:

All songs written by Louise Le May (c) 2009

Arranged by Louis Philippe except ‘The Only Fish’ (arranged by Daniel Manners)
Produced by Louis Philippe and Ken Brake
Recorded and mixed by Ken Brake at Regal Lane Studio, London, July-August 2009

Musicians:

Louise Le May - vocals and vocal arrangements
Louis Philippe – guitars, bass, keyboards and percussion
Daniel Manners – piano, double bass
Abigail Trundle – cello
Geraldine Bereen – violin
Eleanor Gilchrist – violin
Teresa Whipple – viola

http://louiselemay.com/

http://www.myspace.com/louiselemay

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