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Amos Zimmerman

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About Me

I'm 24 years old, been writing music since I'm 17 but mainly in the last couple of years. The music is guitar-based singer-songwriter acoustic folk-rock (long definition!), and I could say about it that it's very melodic, at times melancholic, and quite personal. Main influences would be the likes of Neil Young and Nick Drake on one hand and Radiohead and Beck on the other.
Even though I've made live music on stage with friends over the years, as of now I'm playing and performing without a band with this material. The four songs that you can listen to on this page are low-quality home recordings with just an acoustic guitar and my vocals, but I do hope to get in a studio soon and do it right, and I'm looking for people to play with. If you'd like to hear more of my music, there's another songplayer a little more to the bottom, with 14 of my songs (10 in English, 4 in Hebrew). Just turn down the MySpace player and you can use the other one.
Feedback means a lot to me, since I have a lot of material and I want to narrow it down a bit, so please tell me what you think about the songs - which you liked, which you think could do well, etc. I would really appreciate it, there's nothing better than getting feedback from people you don't know! By the way, the lyrics are included so can follow them when you're listening to the songs if feel like it.
Hope you enjoy the music!
Cheers!
Amos


On the player below you can listen to 14 of my songs, 4 of them in Hebrew. Just click on the song name and press stop at the MySpace player on the top right-hand side (so that the songs won't mix).

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Member Since: 6/8/2007
Band Website: Stage.co.il/Authors/AmosZimmerman
Band Members: Just me as of now, but if you'd like to get together and play some music contact me.

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Influences: I listen to (but not exclusively to):

Neil Young, Radiohead, Beck, Damien Rice, Rockfour, Rufus Wainwright, Joni Mitchell, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Pink Floyd, Muse, The Doors, Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell, Alice In Chains, The Beatles, Nirvana, Geva Alon, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Oasis, The Smiths, The Cure, K's Choice, Blur, Suede, Led Zeppelin, U2, Rage Against The Machine, Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman, Porcupine Tree, The Grateful Dead, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, The Byrds, Audioslave, Counting Crows, Fiona Apple, Gorillaz, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lou Reed, Morrissey, Thom Yorke, Hootie & The Blowfish, Amy Winehouse, Stone Temple Pilots, Count Basie, Jose Gonzales, Van Morrison, Dave Matthews Band, Devendra Banhart, Andrew Bird, Blackfield, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Alanis Morrissette, Cat Stevens, The The, Travis, Maroon 5, Portishead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Super Furry Animals, The Beta Band, Janis Joplin, Eminem, Moby, Morcheeba, Zero 7, Thom Yorke, Blind Melon, Jimi Hendrix, Cypress Hill, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, Doves, Jeff Buckley, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lenny Kravitz, Dire Straits, Genesis, Sting, The Notwist, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Norah Jones, Simon & Garfunkel, Pentangle, Joe Cocker, Santana, Lisa Loeb, Starsailor, Don McLean, Third World Love, Elliott Smith, Stereophonics, The Grateful Dead, The Police, Franz Ferdinand, Air, Manic Street Preachers, Love, Incubus, James Taylor, The Verve, R.E.M, Queen, Coldplay, Keane, Blur, The Pixies, Live, Matisyahu, The Cranberries, Velvet Underground, Charlie Parker, Eli Digibri, Belle & Sebastian, Manu Chau, 10 Years After, Ben Harper, Gomez, Arcade Fire, The Beach Boys, Minimal Compact, Janis Ian, Pat Matheny, Sigur Ros, many Israeli artists and bands, and more...

Some of the artists which have influenced me:



Sounds Like: You tell me... :)
I'd love to get your feedback, so be sure to tell me if you have anything to say at all about the music. Thanks.

In the 1973 Yom-Kippur War my mother's brother Tzvika Zimmer was killed in Sinay and my mother wrote a memorial song about him a couple of years later. Recently I wrote and recorded music to that song. It was played on the radio in Galey-Tzahal, Reshet Gimel, Reshet Bet and 88FM. Click here to read about Tzvika and on the picture below to download the song in MP3 format.

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Song On Radio

In the 1973 "Yom-Kippur War", my mother lost her brother Tzvika Zimmer, who was killed in a battle in Sinay 2 days after the war broke. A few years later she wrote a memorial song about him called "Ba...
Posted by Amos Zimmerman on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:04:00 PST

Album Review - "Sea Change" by Beck

Beck"Sea Change"2002, Geffen RecordsVery few albums have left A strong mark on my musical essence, consiously that is. By that I mean as an artist, not a listener. As a listener, hundreds of albums ha...
Posted by Amos Zimmerman on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:26:00 PST

Six Lyric-Quotes I Like

Here are 6 quotes I like, all out of lyrics to some songs."When I look at the television I wanna see meStaring right back at me"(Counting Crows, "Mr. Jones") A song where Adam Duritz's dreams of succe...
Posted by Amos Zimmerman on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:31:00 PST