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Maria Neckam

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Maria's voice is one of those you either love or hate, and so is her music. Uncompromising in her musical approach as well as performance she hits truth right at it's core and strikes a chord in you ... Her clear, airy sound has been compared to that of angels as well as wind instruments, the latter referring to her use of it as well - Maria sings like an instrumentalist plays. This is also reflected in her use of lyrics, as she states her point in an abstract way, making space for everyone's own story in hers. Her compositions are as diverse as life's surprises, merging modern Jazz with Drum N'Bass and Rock grooves as well as Indian and Classical music. You can hear Stravinsky as well as Björk in it, Billie Holiday and Debussy, Nikhil Banerjee and Ani DiFranco, … but most of all, Maria Neckam

born and raised in VIENNA, Austria, moved to AMSTERDAM in 2000 and lived there 'till she moved on to NEW YORK CITY in august 2006 were she has found her place for now and is happier than ever. She learns from life and her well beloved teachers: Luciana Souza, Peter Eldridge, Samir Chatterjee and Nils Vigeland and plays with Thomas Morgan, Dan Weiss, Miles Okazaki, Dave Binney, Will Vinson, Mike Moreno, Aaron Goldberg, Lars Dietrich, Samir Zarif, Lage Lund, John Escreet, Fabian Almazan, Franz von Chossy, Paul Wiltgen, Sam Barsh, Mika Pohjola, Donald Vega, Lee Pardini, Kristjan Randalu, Zack Lober, Matt Wigton, Stephen Norfleet's "Noise", The Mahavishnu Project ... in NYC and in Europe with her bands MARYLAND (Franz von Chossy-piano, Sean Fasciani/Valdi Kolli-bass, Uli Genenger-drums) and MIA THOUGHT AND SOMETHING HAPPENED (TripHop/Drum 'n Bass, Sara Gilis-keys, Caspar van Meel-bass, Janosch Brenneisen-drums) Check out www.marianeckam.com and www.mtash.com

get her debut album on CD Baby or i tunes .. or Amazon (Germany)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/8/2005
Band Website: marianeckam.com
Band Members: Maria's music:Lars Dietrich - alto sax
Samir Zarif - tenor sax
Aaron Goldberg - piano
Thomas Morgan - bass
Colin Stranahan - drums

SanMyo Trio:

Asami Tamura - piano
Amali Premawardhana - cello


Influences: "People who are vigilant do not die; people who are negligent are as if dead."(Shakyamuni Buddha)

"People do not merely exist; they exist in order to develop."

"A pure-hearted individual cannot help but despise hypocrisy, and one who loves right cannot help but be outraged by wrong."

(Chogyu Takayama)John Coltrane, Maria Joao, Björk, Moloko, K's Choice, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Dave Binney, Sandhya Sanjana, Nitin Sawhney, Brad Mehldau, Dave Holland, Luciana Souza, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Joni Mitchell, Lamb, Portishead, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Maria Callas, Nena, Sigur Ros, Claude Debussy, Sting, The Cranberries, The Cardigans, Sidsel Endresen, Yaniv Nachum, Nirvana, Peter Eldridge, The Bad Plus, Tim Berne, Ari Hoenig, Garbage, Ricardo Zohn Muldoon, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Rickie Lee Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, The Smashing Pumpkins, Samir Chatterjee, Marlene Dietrich, Hubert von Goisern, Sheryl Crow, Massive Attack, Therapy?, Franz von Chossy, Katrin Mickiewitz, Emiliana Torrini, The Cure, Meshell Ndegéocello, Linda Perry, Richard Bona, Ani DiFranco, Tracy Chapman, Sarah McLachlan, Jim Black, Michael Brecker, Sarah Vaughan, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Asa Chang & Junray, The Claudia Quintet, Niti Ranjan Biswas, Beth Gibbons, Monika Zetterlund, Bill Evans, Birth, Boards of Canada, Venetian Snares, Broadcast, Cassandra Wilson, Chet Baker, Lisa Loeb, Chris Cheek, Radiohead, Dave Holland, Des'ree, Djavan, Herbert Grönemeyer, Die Fantastischen Vier (ja, ich geb's zu, aber ich rappe nicht), Erykah Badu, Helen Merrill, Ravel, Stravinsky, Jacky Terrasson, Jamiroquai, Kenny Garrett, Madeleine Peyroux, Óskar Gudjónsson & Skúli Sverrisson, Coldplay, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Skunk Anansie, Souad Masi, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, I'm sure I repeated myself somewhere, all the great people I play with and then Franz Kafka, Haruki Murakami, Robert Schneider, Susanna Tamaro, Ödon von Horvath, Arundhati Roy, Jostein Gaarder, Milan Kundera, Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Egon Schiele, Vincent Van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, my 94 year old aunt, who is an amazing woman, Vienna, Amsterdam, Ghana, New York, the people I love, the people that love me, you
Sounds Like: myself
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

That’s what you get ...

CNN has reported suspicious activity in New York City's sky recently, there have been reports about a little, bluish windy kind of air blowing from Uptown Manhattan into Brooklyn, Prospect Park area, ...
Posted by Maria Neckam on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:57:00 PST

Check out this event: Marias music @ Cornelia Street Café

Hello friends,I am looking forward to singing my music next saturday, SEPTEMBER 8, withMiles Okazaki - guitarAaron Goldberg - pianoZack Lober - bassPaul Wiltgen - drumsat CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ (29 ...
Posted by Maria Neckam on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:57:00 PST

read and see and feel and understand

"Demian" (Hermann Hesse)this is everything that's worth thinking about
Posted by Maria Neckam on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:43:00 PST

The Story

This is the text of my new piece, "The Story", written for my voice, Charlie Christian (speaking voice), Amali Premawardhana (cello), Lars Dietrich, Chris Shade (alto saxes), Samir Zarif (tenor sax), ...
Posted by Maria Neckam on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:11:00 PST

READ

my friends, i have no idea why, but i suddenly felt the strong urge to let you know about some of my favorite BOOKS : ) great stuff i find, so maybe you'll get something out of it as well ...Books:Rob...
Posted by Maria Neckam on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:21:00 PST

CD review - OFF BEAT Magazine

Maryland vocalist Maria Neckam can sound like Flora Purim to Franz von Chossy's Chick Corea, but she's working on many other levels, from Björk and Urszula Dudziak to Astrud Gilberto, Basia and any nu...
Posted by Maria Neckam on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:38:00 PST

check out Mia Thought And Something Happened!

Hey! Hope you're all still able to move and think more or less clearly in this heat. :-) My band "Mia Thought And Something Happened" has some new tunes on it's myspace site. Definitely worth checkin...
Posted by Maria Neckam on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:57:00 PST

ff

man it's f***ing freezing here!!!!!!! this music, this music ... it is just great ... buy it, put it on your i-pod and listen to it when you're walking through the streets it makes me happy r...
Posted by Maria Neckam on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:53:00 PST

monday morning

It's monday morning and it feels like a lazy, lazy, tired sunday morning, 1pm. Lately I've been going back to my "musical roots". This CD is one of my favorite EVER. Check it out. It's greeeeeeat........
Posted by Maria Neckam on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:04:00 PST