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About Me

....Gyan has certainly evolved over the last decade. She is now a hugely gifted composer and a very fine singer in the ..female sensitive.. mode. Her decision to take 18 of Michael Leunig's ..poem-drawings and turn them into songs is inspired.. The result is a genuinely great and original Australian album that Leunig admirers will prize... Bruce Elder, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD....with range, technique and tonal sensitivity, Gyan matches Leunig's poems with equally fractured beauty in what could be described as chamber folk or symphonic sketches.. Billie holiday and Lucinda Williams would approve.. Lesley Sly, SOUND AND IMAGE MAG....Billy the Rabbit is a magical and unique journey through the mind of a gentle genius told from the voice of a beautiful and talented singer and is perhaps the most delicate and appropriate partnership between any two unique Australian artists... Shelly Blake, THE PROGRAM....Gyan's vocals are melancholic, shadowy and even a little eerie, a little reminiscent of Portishead's Beth Gibbons. The album is certainly a beautiful listen.... Brooke Robinson, THE BRAGAugust 2007....NEWS FLASH.....you can now download "Suburban Opera" from Issa's label Sheeba.ca ..."i'm so thrilled that sleeping beauty can now be heard"...gyan.The beautiful Peter O'Doherty painted the cover art too.GYAN AND LEUNIG WIN BEST CABARET PRODUCTION FOR BILLY THE RABBIT 2007 VOTED BY SYDNEY REVIEWERS....(paste to view ) http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/sydney-theatre-awards/2008/0 1/21/1200764167496.html**YOU CAN BUY GYAN CD'S FROM ME ...GO TO www.gyan.com.au FOR DETAILS**

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/10/2006
Band Website: gyan.com.au
Band Members: a floating bunch of amazing musical souls .... simon greaves. james cruickshank. tim gaze. cleis pearce. simon barker. steve elphick. lloyd swanton. evan mannell. thierry fossemalle. michael leunig and the birds in the backyard...
Influences: you and me and every little thing in the woods and under the sea....
Sounds Like: i'm not sure i can be that objective? please write your own ......
Record Label: the museagency
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

blood stained sand....

i saw the remnantsbeautifully made blood stainson the shore somehow it doesn't fit that fish have blood that they actually bleed when cut always thought of them as cold blooded creaturesbut there he w...
Posted by gyan on Tue, 13 May 2008 04:21:00 PST

yoga anyone?

friday night....friend drops over ...he's in the middle of yoga training ....2 weeks to go ...15 yoginiesme - how's your week been ?friend - mmm...yeah great...we had to give instructions today for th...
Posted by gyan on Sun, 11 May 2008 05:08:00 PST

if i could talk to the animals....

we decided to colloborate with our dear friends next door with making a garden...you never can eat all the vegies when they ripen together so ...we planted heaps of kale and lettuce and broccoliiit wa...
Posted by gyan on Mon, 05 May 2008 05:55:00 PST

overjoyed

getting very excited nowas the new album is nearing her datefor orchestration to be addedof course we'd love to have the budgetto hire a small ensemble but alas we'll be more lean with this record i s...
Posted by gyan on Sat, 03 May 2008 02:08:00 PST

picture yourself...

dreams of losing my suitcasewaiting for ages beside the turnstylebut no black case arrivedbut no panic eithersurrendered and walked away a free manthen tiny fingers wrap themselves aroundminethe preci...
Posted by gyan on Thu, 01 May 2008 06:01:00 PST

free style

it was something in the wateras i came up for airthere was an elderly woman entering the seacautiouslybut before i took my breath under the same wavei spied a young child giggeling with joy at the ver...
Posted by gyan on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:46:00 PST

coming home

wipe your eyes from the sleep you've comecome and greet the rising suninvisible friendmade with the same pen i think i need to show you thisthe seathe eagle and the swamp we must crawl from toward the...
Posted by gyan on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:50:00 PST

night time creations...

can't beleive it just finished off a beautiful cranberry coloured winter woolie to wearbut i can't get it over my head...made the neck too tight ....eeeiiikkkk.....what a let downso i tried to find th...
Posted by gyan on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:17:00 PST

a forgotten note found....

there's lots of things to help you to disappear here like; i think the crows would peck out your eyesthe mosquitoes would drain you of bloodthe turkeys would begin at your toesthe bull ants would take...
Posted by gyan on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:47:00 PST

filling the net

and i heard you say these words before bedmake this record like your life depended on it which it always does, doesn't it? but i like the the heat turning up and the crunch is drawing closer with ever...
Posted by gyan on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:30:00 PST