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Member Since: 14/05/2007
Band Website: www.leeannatherton.com"www.zhenyarock.com
www.leeannatherton.com
Band Members: Zhenya Rock
guitars,various balalaikas, banjo, looping madness, vocals,
Leeann Atherton
vocals, soul, harmonica, guitar, contrabass balalaika
Influences: Gypsy music from all over the world, American and Russian roots music bluegrass like Bela Fleck, Doc Watson, and Keller Williams, Bonnie Raitt, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Etta James, Allman Bros., Jerry Douglas and Chris Thile.
Sounds Like: "Gypzee Heart" reviews
Austin Chronicle Jan. 19, 2008 www.austinchronicle.com
Revered blues mama Leeann Atherton and former Red Elvises guitarist/vocalist Zhenya Rock have joined forces in Gypzee Soul, a meeting of his fleet-fingered ability on all things stringed and her soulful sensibilities. Clunky, lyrical moments on their debut are almost offset by the amount of love poured into their worldly acoustic grooves. Jim Caliguiri "For the Sake of the Song "
Rootstime Jan. 2008
Gypzees Heart is a spicy cd' tje, scarcely thirty minutes long, but fresh and sparkling as a stream in the spring. The songs flee playful as fish in a bed, where balalaika, bongos, banjar and a 12-snarige Martin guitar the instrumentale choreografie on self take. 'Live Musical Capital or The World' inclines to hoisted sung inclines does think to reggae, it 'Tim' to country jazz and the bluesy 'Lazy Sunday' of a Brazilian sunset. The samenzang in 'From The Heart' is romp a loves song. The most songs arose in assistant-authorship through the duo Zhenya Kolykhanov and Leeann Atherton, except of 'Romale' that based is on a traditional Russian zigeunersong. Zhenya Rock, as he is named also, comes by Russia and discovered as adolescent all the bluegrass via a periodical with bijhorende plate, what him direct bekoorde. Only firstly he played roll as anarchist gitarist in a Russian rock' n tie with Chuck Berry features. The tie adorned self with the applicable groups name 'Reason Elvises' and brought an achttal cd’s out. Later on Zhenya its own flat label founded and began to write he for film and Tv-shows. Active in the music scene, he cannot choose ostensibly also now between the group Zeegras, The Flying Balalaika Brothers, that Russian folkmuziek interpret or for a duo-career with Leeann. Singer and gitariste Leeann has been bitten already as much as by the muziekmicrobe. For 18 year travels they already singing and sometimes also dancing the world around from her biotope Austin in Texas. Her warm voice does think what of the Indigo Girls. Under her international musical friends may they as well Dad Mali as an Alejandro Escovedo figure. Also in these 'Gypzee Heart', geproducet through Zhenya, know to give the duo their original bluegrass a multiculturele radiation with vitamin run zigeunersongs. A plate in love with with the jaunty triangular contrabasbalalaika as match-maker to become.
Marcie
www.rootstime.be
Record Label: Minnow Publishing Group
RainStorm Records
Type of Label: Indie
