Emily O'Halloran
Los Angeles, California, United States
Music
Press
"Emily O'Halloran is an Americana, Acoustic artist from Los Angeles. Her style is spiritual, but not in the religious sense. The sound is medicine for the soul, and something for the mind to divulge into without effort. This is a true sing of an artist, when the feeling comes over naturally and unforced. Emily is able to harness the immense power of the human experience with just one song. They are songs that you just know that if people heard them, they would be huge."
The Independent Music Scene - Independent Music Scene
"Emily O'Halloran is an Americana, Acoustic artist from Los Angeles. Her style is spiritual, but not in the religious sense. The sound is medicine for the soul, and something for the mind to divulge into without effort. This is a true sing of an artist, when the feeling comes over naturally and unforced. Emily is able to harness the immense power of the human experience with just one song. They are songs that you just know that if people heard them, they would be huge."
The Independent Music Scene - Independent Music Scene
Beside her is Emily O’Halloran who now makes her home in LA. Originally, she grew up in a hippie commune in Australia. She plays keys and Hammond organ on her debut CD, Morphine and Cupcakes. It’s a moody album that’s more old-style R&B crossed with folk/rock than the folk label she’s been given. I was surprised the first time I heard her by the deepness of her voice, a most refreshing change with women artists. It was what I would have expected of a much older performer.
http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=224749
http://skopemag.com/2010/02/16/music-up-close-with-janie-–-february-2010 - Skope Magazine
Beside her is Emily O’Halloran who now makes her home in LA. Originally, she grew up in a hippie commune in Australia. She plays keys and Hammond organ on her debut CD, Morphine and Cupcakes. It’s a moody album that’s more old-style R&B crossed with folk/rock than the folk label she’s been given. I was surprised the first time I heard her by the deepness of her voice, a most refreshing change with women artists. It was what I would have expected of a much older performer.
http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=224749
http://skopemag.com/2010/02/16/music-up-close-with-janie-–-february-2010 - Skope Magazine
Emily O’Halloran
www.sonicbids.com/EmilyOHalloran
Skope: How does it feel to be chosen as an “A2W” artist for February 2010?
Emily O’Halloran: This kid is smiling…I’m honoured. It is a beautiful and humbling feeling to be recognized for your artistry. I make music for the love of it, play songs at my kitchen table to no-one. So the days when you get a little recognition, someone coming up to you after a show, or an article like this, it is an added bonus and really does give me the faith to continue writing and singing my songs.
Skope: What are you currently working on in your musical endeavours?
Emily O’Halloran: I am saving my pennies, sometimes quarters, to master my record, “Morphine and Cupcakes”. Once it is mastered i plan to release it myself.
Skope: If you have any videos on Myspace or Youtube that we can show readers please incliude the URL?
Emily O’Halloran:
http://www.myspace.com/emilyohalloran
http://vimeo.com/4172799
Skope: What is your favorite time of day to create music?
Emily O’Halloran: I am a nighttime cat. That dusk till dawn period, theres a quiet and a magic about it. Everyone is sleeping, there is a softness, a melancholy, something that makes you feel held. An incredibly fertile energy about those midnight hours. I find the daytime harsh and abrasive and not condusive to creativity at all.
Skope: What is coming up for you and where can readers learn more about you?Emily O’Halloran:” I am putting a new line-up together for 2010 and have been collaborating with some great musicians. Then it will be gigs, more gigs, campfire sing-alongs, busking on street corners and the usual hustle. For the LA crowd i have a poetry book, titled “Waking to Morning” which is sold at Skylight Books on Vermont Ave in Los Feliz. My song “Kindness”, is going to be on the soundtrack to the movie, “Circle”, of which I’m also shooting a music video for. I’ll hooking up with some muso’s from back home in May, and we will be doing an East Coast tour in the summer…Cheers!
http://skopemag.com/2010/02/02/february-2010-sonicbids-“artists-2-watch”
- Skope Magazine
Emily O’Halloran
www.sonicbids.com/EmilyOHalloran
Skope: How does it feel to be chosen as an “A2W” artist for February 2010?
Emily O’Halloran: This kid is smiling…I’m honoured. It is a beautiful and humbling feeling to be recognized for your artistry. I make music for the love of it, play songs at my kitchen table to no-one. So the days when you get a little recognition, someone coming up to you after a show, or an article like this, it is an added bonus and really does give me the faith to continue writing and singing my songs.
Skope: What are you currently working on in your musical endeavours?
Emily O’Halloran: I am saving my pennies, sometimes quarters, to master my record, “Morphine and Cupcakes”. Once it is mastered i plan to release it myself.
Skope: If you have any videos on Myspace or Youtube that we can show readers please incliude the URL?
Emily O’Halloran:
http://www.myspace.com/emilyohalloran
http://vimeo.com/4172799
Skope: What is your favorite time of day to create music?
Emily O’Halloran: I am a nighttime cat. That dusk till dawn period, theres a quiet and a magic about it. Everyone is sleeping, there is a softness, a melancholy, something that makes you feel held. An incredibly fertile energy about those midnight hours. I find the daytime harsh and abrasive and not condusive to creativity at all.
Skope: What is coming up for you and where can readers learn more about you?Emily O’Halloran:” I am putting a new line-up together for 2010 and have been collaborating with some great musicians. Then it will be gigs, more gigs, campfire sing-alongs, busking on street corners and the usual hustle. For the LA crowd i have a poetry book, titled “Waking to Morning” which is sold at Skylight Books on Vermont Ave in Los Feliz. My song “Kindness”, is going to be on the soundtrack to the movie, “Circle”, of which I’m also shooting a music video for. I’ll hooking up with some muso’s from back home in May, and we will be doing an East Coast tour in the summer…Cheers!
http://skopemag.com/2010/02/02/february-2010-sonicbids-“artists-2-watch”
- Skope Magazine
Discography
Unreleased debut album,
"Morphine and Cupcakes"
Photos
Bio
Morphine and Cupcakes is the debut album from Emily O’Halloran. Produced by Mark Howard (Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits).
Emily grew up on a hippy commune on the north coast of Australia, leaving home at fourteen, and spending the following years hitchhiking around the country.
Home was anywhere from the desert of the Northern Territory, to the washes of the Antarctic waters of Tasmania. Home was friends and strangers. Houses were filled with dogs, children and music. People passed through. Life was lived day to day.
The last few years have seen Emily call New York home, where she read her poetry in the coffee houses and basements of the village, and busked in the subways and outside the Chelsea Hotel.
It was by chance that Mark Howard heard some rough demos; they made plans to meet up, cut a track and see how the vibe was… Emily was in Australia, Mark was in Mexico…they met in LA and one track turned into 10… They have recorded wherever they ended up. Living rooms, airstreams, tree houses, and high-end studios…
It is a record of haunting beauty, washes of melancholy, grey skies, dark and stormy with streaks of blue, pools of blood… It is story telling with an undercurrent of sarcasm, sadness laced with spits of venom… and tears, tears like a fallen bottle of wine… It is a desperate romance, a desolate landscape.
It is waking up not for yourself but for all your dead friends that cant, a room with a mattress on the floor, stained sheets and an ashtray. Rain on the tin roof when you are a child.
It is lovers laying together when they know its not gonna work but cant bear to leave…
Of knowing yourself to well… the sound of streets in the dark of night when the rain has washed everything away and all that moves is the streetlamps…
Featuring world-renowned musicians, Daryl Johnson (Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, Emmy-Lou Harris), Don Heffington (Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams), Doug Pettibone (Lucinda Williams), Peter Atanasoff (Rickie Lee Jones) and Steve Collins (Deadman).
Morphine and Cupcakes is a doped up serenade for the Bonnie’s, the Clyde’s, the lovers and the thieves… It is desert music, well past midnight in an old pick up truck when you don’t know where the ground ends and the stars begin…
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