Clare and the Reasons’ on Making Chamber Pop
WSJ’s music critic Jim Fusilli speaks with Clare and the Reasons about ‘chamber pop’ and their new album “Arrow.”
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October 17th, 2009
October 15th, 2009
TIME OUT NY features Clare and the Reasons as the TOP PICK for the upcoming CMJ Festival!
This group stars the local couple Clare and Olivier Manchon, respectively a singer-songwriter and a multi-instrumentalist. On their second album, Arrow, Olivier is credited with playing eight instruments, from violin to baby koto. Yet the record never falls prey to the fattiness that can mar such orchestral pop, building from songs that feel intimate but not small…
October 14th, 2009
All The Wine, the new single from Clare and the Reasons is the SONG OF THE DAY on NPR.ORG!
“I haven’t much that I want to do / Would you like to come and do that, too?” singer Clare Manchon asks in “All the Wine,” the opening track on Clare and the Reasons‘ new album, Arrow. Rarely has throwing away the appointment book and clinking a glass with a loved one sounded so deliciously inviting.
With Manchon’s pure, childlike voice and the gentle tastefulness of a whispering string arrangement….
October 13th, 2009
“All The Wine” is now available from iTunes!
So is the Bee side, “Our Team Is Grand”!
October 12th, 2009
ARROW! The new album from Clare and the Reasons.
Pre order “Arrow” by Clare and the Reasons! Out Oct. 20th everywhere, but get it early from Frog Stand Records… And… If you pre order before Oct 20th, you’ll get a FREE Clare and the Reasons tee shirt AND a FREE KAZOO! Good deal!
October 8th, 2009
Watch “All The Wine”, the new video from Clare and the Reasons!
October 6th, 2009
Indie Brooklyn NY band, Clare and the Reasons, will be teaming up with Alter Eco on their upcoming tour. The challenge will be how Clare and the Reasons can find local fresh produce (or produce at all) on their long road trips. Equipped with a double electric cooking range and a burning desire to eat healthy food, they plan to combine Alter Eco’s grains and Olive Oil with fresh vegetables (and meat if it’s organic grass fed) and cook in the backstage area of the concerts and most likely hotels rooms along the wide open american road. Most of all, optimism and creativity will be the key ingredients to making it work. Thanks to our friends at Alter Eco! If you live near where Clare and the Reasons are playing come by a show. Have some Alter Eco chocolate with the band after the show at the merch table!
September 30th, 2009
MP3 at 3PM: Clare and the Reasons
Indie-pop darlings Clare And The Reasons return with Arrow (out October 20 on Frog Stand Records). “Ooh You Hurt Me So” is another twinkling number so sweet it should come with a toothbrush….
September 29th, 2009
Join Josh Mease this Wednesday, September 30th at Southpaw!
Josh Mease w/ Tracy Bonham, Michael Miller, Gretchen Witt, Sheri Miller
Acoustically Related Music Series @ Southpaw
This Wednesday, September 30th
8 pm doors/8:30 pm show
125 5th Ave (near Baltic Ave)
Brooklyn, NY 11217-3227
Buy Tickets Here…
www.ticketweb.com
Enjoy these Karaoke versions of Josh Mease tunes!
September 28th, 2009
Soup and Songs With Clare Manchon
Clare Manchon lives in Brooklyn and fills her days with modern trappings just like the rest of us, but it doesn’t take much of an investigation to uproot her desire to live in a 1950s black-and-white detective film come to life….
Read the whole interview.
September 24th, 2009
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