Graph Rabbit
New York City, New York, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2012 | INDIE
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"I found [Graph Rabbit's] show an oddly moving experience" - Itunes
"I found [Graph Rabbit's] show an oddly moving experience" - Itunes
"This is music with supernatural powers..."Less is more" - they say - and Brooklyn's Graph Rabbit have definitely learned that lesson. The band's dream folk is so ethereal and sparse it can almost be mistaken for the random sounds of nature." - Deli Magazine
"Their debut album Snowblind might just be the best thing I've heard all year. A glorious hub of stark minimalism, still ambience and superlative beauty, the group's primordial sonic venture is the type of elegant, enveloping masterpiece which only crops up every so often." - Muzik Discovery
"Graph Rabbit’s music is so beautiful it makes you want to cry. Sparse savannah-like expanses of organic elegance, akin to a champagne flute filled with the most luscious of golden liquids swirling around the glass as if it’s in slow motion, remaining in perfect stillness as it rotates around and around, mixed in an epic harmony of single notes dropping into the liquid and sitting on the top, motionless, for just a millisecond, before bursting in a thousand perfect droplets." - New Music Michael
"One of the best debuts of 2012. The duo's most arresting instrument is Donohue's breathtaking falsetto. His vocal work carries the album emotionally, a magnificent performance throughout. Nowhere is this more evident than on the amazing first single "Only Fields", the standout track on Snowblind and the one garnering Graph Rabbit much deserved attention. Donohue delivers a vulnerable vocal over the tender musical bed of ambient sounds and plucked guitar. It is a must hear song on a must hear album." - Now Its On
"One of the best debuts of 2012. The duo's most arresting instrument is Donohue's breathtaking falsetto. His vocal work carries the album emotionally, a magnificent performance throughout. Nowhere is this more evident than on the amazing first single "Only Fields", the standout track on Snowblind and the one garnering Graph Rabbit much deserved attention. Donohue delivers a vulnerable vocal over the tender musical bed of ambient sounds and plucked guitar. It is a must hear song on a must hear album." - Now Its On
“'Only Fields' is a whimsical daydream of greener pastures and the breezy side of life. This is the perfect song to calm your nerves." - Indie Shuffle
“'Only Fields' is a whimsical daydream of greener pastures and the breezy side of life. This is the perfect song to calm your nerves." - Indie Shuffle
"Gorgeous, melodic and haunting" - Earbuddy
"Graph Rabbit has a steadfast beauty. Each part is singular and strong enough to let singer Austin Donohue's angelic voice float over the top and pound away at your heart." - RCRD LBL
"Graph Rabbit has a steadfast beauty. Each part is singular and strong enough to let singer Austin Donohue's angelic voice float over the top and pound away at your heart." - RCRD LBL
"Could 'Only Fields' be any prettier? When we play this delicate, lilting, twinkling lullaby called Only Fields from Graph Rabbit, we hear the precious, soft crunch of sweet, silver-white bunnies hopping on sparkly, snow-covered hills, while distant stars glimmer in a violet-hued sky and fireflies (fireflies!) gracefully touch down only to float off again, lighting the way for their little bunny friends…?? Seriously, that’s what we hear."
- Talk Rock To Me
"Beautiful" - BBC6
"Beautiful" - BBC6
Discography
SNOWBLIND LP - 2012
Only Fields (Extended Instrumental) EP - 2012
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Bio
Graph Rabbit is the Brooklyn-based duo of artist/composer Austin Donohue (guitar, vocals, bells) and experimental pianist Shy Kedmi (analog synths, bells, etc). Graph Rabbits debut album Snowblind released October, 2012 is produced by Allen Farmelo (The Cinematic Orchestra, Talk Normal, Mike Jorgensen/Wilco) and mastered by Valgeir Sigurรฐsson (Bjรถrk, Sigur Rรณs).
Graph Rabbit originally began as the solo project of Brooklyn- based artist/composer Austin Donohue in 2010. But it wasnt until Donohue, an accomplished filmmaker, musician and composer in his own right, began collaborating with producer Allen Farmelo that Graph Rabbit began to find its true form.
The result is Graph Rabbits debut album Snowblind a deftly nuanced concept album, sweepingly cinematic at times and hauntingly minimalist at others. The album follows an unnamed character as he wanders through a surreal, minimalist snow-scape, falling in and out of sleep, following birds through fields, arguing with a river and eventually just surrendering to the silence of snowfall.
The production on Snowblind is minimal one finger picked guitar, one curiously small analog synth (knows as a Pocket Piano) and Donohues singularly beautiful voice send it all soaring, with the eerie rattle of sleigh bells, twinkling glockenspiel, and an Estonian handbell ensemble lacing the songs with the unexpected textures of metal.
After completing the album, Donohue invited collaborator Shy Kedmi to join as an official member of the band. The duo are now performing the record in its entirety throughout the East Coast. Performing the album front-to- back on all analog / acoustic equipment with no computers is a risk but we wanted to take it explains Kedmi. Its the only way we can really
bring the world weve created, the world of Snowblind, to our audience, Donohue adds.
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