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About Me

we can still do better. we can still do more. we can....blue/cities/oceans/rosebank/tarmac/aeroplanes/firefli es/saying goodbye/saying hello/saying the two of them in different languages/fire escapes in brooklyn/window sills in sydney/train rides in europe/bicycles/a simultaneous joy and sadness at the fact of being human/seeing the world through all continents/falling in love/falling out of love/paper people on walls/human rights/activism/feminism/vegan goodies/rainforests/guitar and notebook/life/...here's marching band season live at the sidewalk cafe on 24 october 2007... film by asbjørn.Layout by: My Layouts Creator

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Music:

Member Since: 4/27/2006
Band Members: gemma connell - guitar, vocals and shaky demos; of late seen on occasion with kate kilbane on bass and piano; when on the same continent, bart denaro plays along on drums and inspires the hell out of me.
Influences: my grandma, my ma, my pa, and my brother//ani difranco// armsrock // eva// lisa gill (thankyou always emily)//tracy chapman// SWOON //bart denaro//dana bishop-root//lunasa//the roots//joni mitchell//neil young//leonard cohen//bonnie ’prince’ billy//elliott smith//nina nastasia//the ericksons//regina spektor//mount eerie//iron and wine// know hope //erykah badu// santiago mostyn //m. ward//emiliana torrini//billie holliday//charlie parker//ella fitzgerald// ghost bikes //jessi robertson//paul basile//miss donne//ray mann//mick stuart// the miss rockaway armada //saudade - sonja schenkel// assata shakur //the philosophy of love - sara kerr//arundathi roy// visual resistance //eduardo galeano// people who live consciously; people who dream; people who dance in the rain; people who write their feelings on walls; people who sing their life out loud; people who catch snow flakes on their tongue; my friends and anyone i’ve ever met.
Sounds Like: girl with guitar
Type of Label: None

My Blog

breathing in spring

a monday evening in new york city brings me to the point of saying some things i've been wanting to say for some time...i'm here! for those of you who thought i was leaving (including me) this is a re...
Posted by gemma connell on Tue, 06 May 2008 08:57:00 PST

quiet awhile

a new emotion to capture, a new song.... i'll put up a demo soon, in the meantime, here are the lyricsquiet awhilei want to take the things that you've been giving me and put them in a bagi want to ke...
Posted by gemma connell on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:24:00 PST

hello march!

so... here we are at the beginning of a pretty big month (well, for me at least!). 1. my parents are coming to new york! that's right... my ma and my pa.... two of my best friends... two humans who ha...
Posted by gemma connell on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:23:00 PST

WE FINALLY SAID SORRY....

i'm sitting in new york just after midnight.... watching the sydney morning herald's online videos of the new Australian Prime Minister (Kevin Rudd) and his apology to our indigenous people.... i am c...
Posted by gemma connell on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:12:00 PST

experiments and tiredness

this week has been intense and we are only at tuesday..... i'm not sure what it's been or why but i'm sitting here now, drained, somewhat satisfied and ready to keep figuring this thing called recordi...
Posted by gemma connell on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:16:00 PST

what a banjo can do....

over the weekend i was lucky enough to have my wondrous friend josie's banjo in my living room.... what came out of that was not what i expected (putting bits and pieces of banjo to some pre-existing ...
Posted by gemma connell on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:02:00 PST

the start of something new

this past weekend was spent in stripy blue tights and a tank top sitting at my newly acquired keyboard with hard-disc recorder on top, learning anew how to tinkle keys in a way that makes sense and, m...
Posted by gemma connell on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:13:00 PST

these times

well, 2008 eh? here we go. footsteps and bikerides and a blue sky finally appearing.i'm excited. and that's the truth.why?because i have just acquired a digital 8-track recorder and i've decided i'm g...
Posted by gemma connell on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:59:00 PST

lyrics: saudade

learning another languageis kind of liketaking off sunglasseson a bright sunny dayyou get a new perspectiveyou see how differentlythings are reflectedbut things still feelthe sameyou put a post-it abo...
Posted by gemma connell on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:29:00 PST

weird, warped version of coffee table (or the weight of the world) posted

okay... i recorded this version of coffee table (or the weight of the world) at home, the way i always do, and something went drastically wrong in the mixdown process... so it's come out sounding like...
Posted by gemma connell on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:31:00 PST