Rachel Smith - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Rachel made her first record, "the clearing," an eclectic pop experiment, in 2001. She then teamed up with Tamara Williamson, doyenne of Toronto's indie scene, and created a more stripped-down record, "Famous Secrets," at Tamara's farm studio in rural Ontario. This CD lived in a drawer for three years while Rachel studied Greek mysticism at Harvard. In 2005 she did a tour with Ocean Music in France, living as an artist in residence at the Toulousian extravaganza, "rentree des artistes," and playing with spectacular French musicians around the country. In the past few years she has performed with artists such as Dawn Landes, Lederhosen Lucil, Jonathan Seet, and Ron Sexsmith, composed the soundtrack for the dance film "Lapinthrope," and studied Byzantine chant in Greece. After years of waiting, "Famous Secrets" has been pulled from the drawer and been released.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/08/2006
Band Website: www.cdbaby.com/rachelsmith2
Band Members: Rachel Smith (voice, piano, organ, guitar). There are many guest musicians on the songs posted here including Krista Muir (voice), Tamara Williamson (keys), Jonathan Seet (atmospheric guitars), Mitch Girio (bass), Karl Mohr (accordian!) and Morgan Doctor (drums).
Sounds Like: Buy Rachel's CD here!/a
Record Label: maimee records

My Blog

Songs from the woods

I've decided to post two songs from a recording session I had at Hawksley Workman's Schoolhouse studio in northern Ontario. "Horses" and this version of "Bounty Hunter" (a remake of the song on "Famou...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:42:00 GMT

Videos

Hi all, There are a couple of videos of my CD release in April playing two songs with Kobi in Cambridge. I haven't yet figured out how to post them on the main page, but you just click the video link ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:11:00 GMT

Album done!

I'm happy to announce that finally, after four years of waiting, my second record, "Famous Secrets" is officially finished and available. It can be found at cdbaby.com/cd/rachelsmith2. Keep your eye...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:15:00 GMT

New Songs, New site

Well, I've finally entered the myspace world! I've posted here a song that Dawn Landes and I sang in the dark in a trailer in France into a miniscule microphone. The words are by the beautiful organ...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:31:00 GMT