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odessa chen

About Me

Hey everyone, thanks for all the friends requests! but i sometimes get kinda overwhelmed so if you want to please send me a personal email letting me know why you'd like to be friends. I sometimes don't get to the friends requests for a long time. thanks! odessa ---------------------------
With a voice that brings together the intimacy of Songs:Ohia and the ethereal force of Sigur Ros or Jeff Buckley, Odessa Chen's music has been described as wintry, intelligent, haunting, and tender. Her debut album, One Room Palace, explores themes of love, longing, beauty and death with accomplished lyrics, a fingerpicking guitar style that is almost classical, and arrangements both sparse and complex. For live shows she is joined by Rich Douthit (of The Drift) on drums and Devin Hoff (of Nels Cline Singers and Good for Cows) on double bass. She has been interviewed on NPR, and has a growing national audience. A guest vocalist on recordings by Charles Atlas and Thee More Shallows, she is currently at work on the follow up to One Room Palace.

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Member Since: 07/05/2005
Band Website: odessachen.com
Band Members: Odessa Chen :: vocals, guitar Devin Hoff :: upright bass (of Good for Cows, Nels Cline Singers, etc.) Rich Douthit :: drums (of the Drift!, Jargon, Boxcar Saints, Winfred E. Eye)
Influences: Jeff Buckley, Songs:Ohia, Elliott Smith, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Sinead C'Connor, Sade, the Doors, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, David Darling, Francois Rabbath, Iron and Wine, U2(early), Hildegard Von Bingen, Brahms, Bob Dylan, Benjamin Brittan, Pink Floyd, Guns and Roses (Appetite), Bruce Spingsteen....
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New Music Video for Small Birds at YouTube now

Hey,so a new video for Small Birds is now at you tube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMF15CdMCUk It was directed by my longtime friend Isak Bradford who is an amazing dancer and photographer that trav...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:42:00 GMT

Audio Bus memories/ Tahoe/Small Birds Video

Audiobus Memories:Thank you all so much for making the Audiobus such an amazing success. We sold out both sets on the double decker bus...there were cranes, waves,fog, branches brushing against should...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:27:00 GMT

Northwest Tour

Alright, so after a few years we are actually heading out to do a little mini tour. There's no budget for press and promotions so please let friends in the area know we're coming. We're playing seattl...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:19:00 GMT

Northwest Tour and an abundance of interesting collaborations.

April 20, 2008 Some great shows coming up including one with Goh Nakamura and our first Northwest Tour in years.Please let any friends in Portland and Seattle know that we're coming up! In other ...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:15:00 GMT

+ off to the philippines +

So we are taking a little break from music for the next two weeks and traveling to the philippines! We will stop in Manila for 4 days and then go to a small group of islands called the Palawan for 6 d...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:21:00 GMT

+ 12 galaxies show and review in the Onion +

The show last night was really well attended for a school night! Thanks so much for all who showed up to see the preview for "the Archives" record.Now we will go back to promoting the new record the B...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:23:00 GMT

+ our session at Tiny Telephone +

Things could not have possibly gone better or been more fun in the studio. A great group of people for 12 hours a day! Jay Pellicci (our engineer) was so mellow and great at getting sounds as usual an...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:13:00 GMT

+ entering the studio +

So we are heading into the studio this weekend at Tiny Telephone!Guest guitarist Roger Riedlbauer of Boxcar Saints, Transmission, the Cannery, and Jolie Holland's touring band will be there with us.We...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:14:00 GMT

+ ahh the holidays +

After a restful week on Kauai, Rich, Devin and I are back in rehearsals getting ready to record in December. We will be joined by Roger Riedlbauer an amazing guitarist who has toured with Jolie Hollan...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:32:00 GMT

Thank you for coming out!`

Thank you again everyone for coming out last night!!!I was blown away that so many of you took the time to join us. ~Sharing the night with so many friends in such a beautiful space with those amazing...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:55:00 GMT