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Sweet Potatoes

About Me

Sweet Potatoes is Jenny's chorus of looping voices and the sounds she collects in her travels. Sometimes there are friends too, and even instruments. Perhaps you would like to use the adjectives "hypnotic" "mesmerizing" "awesome" or "brave."

"Pay attention, and you'll hear other things: small instruments like kazoos and tambourines, with a few carefully-selected sounds like recorded background noise and conversations, coughing, and water glasses on a tabletop. If you're not working to dissect the music, though, that's OK too" - Seattle Weekly

NEW EP out on Dandelion Gold!!! Hand screened!! Prices include shipping.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 24/06/2005
Band Members: Jenny
microphone
computer, or looper thing
guitar, occasionally
tabletop, kazoos, water glasses, food, ducks and unwitting neighbors. Plus one or more of these: RB Reed's guitar + voice, Ola's voice + clarinet, Johnny's bass + computer masterminding
Influences: Lou Barlow, Hank Williams, The Microphones/Mt Eerie, Alejandra and Aeron, Shana Cleveland and the Curious Mystery, Nava Etshalom, Amadou and Mariam, Lucky Dragons, Joni Mitchell, Mirah, Billie Holiday, Dolly Parton, Pierre Henry, My Bloody Valentine, Diana Ross (and the Supremes), R.B. Reed, Thee Moths, Jim Jarmusch, Anais Nin, Virginia Woolfe, David Lynch, Proust, bike riding, mountains, bodies of water, city birds
Sounds Like: Yams

Record Label: Dandelion Gold, Undereducated, Bicycle, Oddsmaker
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Request Sweet Potatoes on KEXP!

Hey...Sharlese and Riz on KEXP have gotten ahold of "Sweet Potatoes and Friends" as well as the Dandelion Gold sampler. Yay! Wanna request my songs?? Why thank you!!Email [email protected](Sharlese is on...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:51:00 GMT

Reviews in the Seattle Weekly, and some guys blog!

And it's all because of REVERB fest. !http://www.seattleweekly.com/2008-10-01/music/hattie-s-hat. phpSweet PotatoesJenny Asarnow's ambient soundplay mainly consists of layers of her own voice (and occa...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:01:00 GMT

Keeping track

Just housekeeping. I have a couple of newish songs up. One (it's over) is actually not so new, the other (last night) is a sketch, as are many things I make.This is where I have sweet potatoes music (...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:00:00 GMT

"Children of the Sweet Potato"

The shape of the main island of Taiwan is similar to a sweet potato seen in a south-to-north direction, and therefore, Taiwanese people, especially the Min-nan division, often call themselves 'childre...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:51:00 GMT

Looking for shows

I'm looking to book some shows in Seattle + vicinity in August, September, and the rest of the fall. Let me know if you can help me out...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:28:00 GMT

amazing and new things

I've been very busy, as you can see. There are TWO new POP songs up now, a map of Seattle and I also learned how to do html and silly animation! The new songs are both going to be on Mr. Jamie Und...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 23:59:00 GMT