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Rosa Conrad

Where do you plug this thing in?

About Me

Piano, guitar, accordion, vocals. 140th of the Philharmonia Chorus, 7th of the Tricity Vogue Slinktet, 6th of Gabby Young's Other Animals, half of Alchemy in the Afternoon, all of Rosa Conrad.A serial inhabiter of crumbling Victorian terraces, I'm an expert collector of fine people, empty wine bottles and penalty charge notices.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/26/2006
Band Website: flickr.com/photos/rosaconrad
Influences: Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Jolie Holland, Tanya Donelly, Tord Gustavsen, Neil Innes, Nina Simone, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Aimee Mann, My Grandad, Late Junction (Radio 3), The Comics and writing of Lynda Barry, Kurt Vonnegut, Shy singer-songwriters with dark curly hair, Small blond accordion players with a penchant for white suits and pork pie hats, ukelele playing pacific island boys with wonderful skin and whoever the next idiot I fall in love with is. The feel of a clear morning by the sea and crunchy snow. Jonathan and Helen who I met in Wellington. Check out these kiwi bands - Goldenhorse, the Phoenix Foundation, Fat Freddy's Drop.
Sounds Like: A bit like Rosa Collinge, Rosa Lewis and Rosamund Conrad, with a hint of Connie Vanderlay.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Gabby Young And Other Animals - our video for Snakebite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbIu7QW4juY Nothing like prancing around with hats on. And accordions....
Posted by Rosa Conrad on Fri, 02 May 2008 05:45:00 PST

What makes a person like a piece of music?

What makes a person like a piece of music? What makes a person like a piece of music enough to practice it? Play it and various parts of it over and over until it's right where you want it? As a teach...
Posted by Rosa Conrad on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:21:00 PST

From the sublime to the cheeky

Life is a rich tapestry of colliding sensations of every colour, rather like a painting by the great Elizabeth Shackleton Collinge. I'm telling you, she tells it like it is. Take yesterday. Last night...
Posted by Rosa Conrad on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:26:00 PST

Day one of shameless self-publication

Just got this thing up and running. Will be adding a guitar track soon, and work I've been doing with poet extraodinaire, Aoife Mannix. Flight path studio is of course my bedroom. Its a crisp coo...
Posted by Rosa Conrad on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:51:00 PST