Living in the Lower Frequencies

Living in the Lower Frequencies

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<"b000amwj3o2999"> About the Artist
Biography UK born Lime started his love of music very early, which developed further at school in the late 70’s in the North West of England, playing guitar in amateur folk and rock bands (this included a well remembered ‘sit-in’ with the now world renowned Martin Carthy at the Brunswick Arms, Crewe, Cheshire). Following university and a lengthy period travelling in the US and relocating back to the UK, he helped establish and became co-writer for the 7 piece Oxford based band "Catch" in the mid 80’s, a power driven, half white, half Afro-American funk project, who subsequently signed to Red Bus Records some time later. Their live reputation was second to none, and managed major support slots for Sade, The Kinks, Orange Juice and supported by the likes of Howard Jones…the bands line-up included such luminary players as John Reynolds (now successful producer/writer…Sinead O’Connor/ Jah Wobble) and Hossam Ramzay (Real World Percussionist/ Page and Plant). The band’s! eventual demise came about through a lack of promotional support from the record company, even though their only commercial release charted in the UK in the top 100, despite the fact! For the next few years, music for him took very much a back seat: during that time, he also migrated to Melbourne, Australia in 1994. With the growth of greater and more facilitative music technology, he eventually returned to writing and recording in 1998, experimenting and developing his own style, which eventually resulted in the 5 track EP "Ear Noise Throat". This enabled him to truly find his own unique voice aided by studio owner/musician/engineer and close ally Simon Ayton, who co-produced the project. Responses to the EP from overseas companies were extraordinarily positive; particularly from those companies whose rosters happened to be fairly diverse and eclectic. Similarly, his influences were equally varied: acoustic, organic, jazzy and sample splattered, but with an acute blues sensibility…To date, he is still taken up with a musical core of "independent soul", citing reference point artists as diverse as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, John Martyn and Nick Drake, Blue Nile; musicians such as John Scofield and Charlie Hunter, and even more contemporary artists such as D’Angelo, Lewis Taylor, Matthew Herbert, Tortoise and Aphex Twin. In 1998, "Noise in my Throat", one of the songs off the EP was featured on a CMJ Big Backyard Sampler, followed by a special award for a new song "No Great Failure", featured on the 2000 SCALA FOOM Song Competition CD. So what’s been happening since then??? For the last four and a half years, multi-instrumentalist Lime has been locked in his studio fuelled by this initial response and is now poised to release his first full-length album of 14 tracks, " Living in the Lower Frequencies" (a phrase he uses to describe the accidentally ignored). In order to test the material, he! has also recently performed a handful of warm-up, incognito solo acoustic performances around Melbourne prior to selecting a group of accomplished musicians to promote the album into 2005. So what’s the album like? Lime has always refused to conform to any music genres; however, he does seem to manage to pocket a good proportion of them without compromise on this collection of songs. He has a certain lyrical ambience combined with a love of recording detail and arrangement, whether simple or complex, stripped back to bare bones or full production. He seems to be full of paradoxes (now that he has his hands on the controls!): his guitar playing can be equally suppressed as it is crazy. He has been described in the past as having a "superb" melancholic bluesy quality to his voice, and this characteristic certainly opens a door to sublime listening. From the upbeat jazziness of "You Are My Mess" to the heart wrenching and lonely acoustic "As Good As It Gets", to a great new rendition of the John Martyn classic "Head and Heart" (th

<"b000amwj3o4999"> Album Description
Blues infused soul/jazz delivered with subtle effects, glitchy percussion, samples and sub bass.... moves and grooves easily between jazz, funk , folk and blues...traditionals slide guitar and bluesy/ white soul vocals....Bluestonica perhaps.... Delicate, beguiling and languid guitar work, both acoustic and electric.....a world weary voice that seeps into your soul....music for the adventurous listener....a slow burner that will lodge in your heart

Living in the Lower Frequencies, Music, Lime, Blues, Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul

Living in the Lower Frequencies

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