October 4th, 2011
September 24th, 2011
My new full length 12″ Vinyl and digital download
FOR WHOM THE ANGELS NAMED,
released September 22, 2011 is now available on BANDCAMP!
CLICK ME TO GO TO BANDCAMP!
September 24th, 2011
Staying Undefined at the Antifolk Festival, and That’s Fine
NY TIMES REVIEW : Arts Beat “The Culture at Large” By: JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR.
FOR WHOM THE ANGELS NAMED Record Release Party Sept 22, 2011!
“The headliner was Elizabeth Devlin, who sang her densely packed and surreal verses about the stew of being a woman over an autoharp, her little girl’s voice riding coyly over the weirdly discordant harmonies she traced with her hands. (She read Walt Whitman’s poetry between songs.)”
September 21st, 2011
NEW VIDEO: Ancient Voices
From the Ladybug 7″ Vinyl
(released earlier this year)
September 13th, 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
For Whom The Angels Named By: Elizabeth Devlin
Album Release Party, September 22, 2011 at Sidewalk Cafe 94 Avenue A, NYC, NY 10009
Elizabeth@AllAreRelative.com - www.AllAreRelative.com - www.facebook.com/ElizabethDevlin
“Elizabeth Devlin is a creative young singer from Queens, with a voice at once strong and ethereal. She accompanies herself on Autoharp, which casts her every song in shades of spooky.” -TimeOUT NY, December 2008
On March 19, 2011, beneath the largest full moon seen in 18 years, utilizing one mic, an autoharp and her “at once strong and ethereal” voice, Elizabeth Devlin tracked 8 songs at FLUX Studio NYC, which will be released on For Whom The Angels Named, a limited edition, signed, 100 copy 12″ vinyl pressing on Sept 22, 2011 at Sidewalk Cafe in LES, NYC.
“Elizabeth Devlin croons brassy dreams over Autoharp.” -TimeOUT NY, August 2009
For Whom The Angels Named, Devlin’s second full length album, preserves the gentle purity, sensational nearness and impetuous tempo audiences have come to expect from Devlin’s breathlessly intimate live performances. Each of the eight songs on For Whom The Angels Named, paints the portrait and tells the story of an individual; each song title is a different name.
“‘We’re into her music right now. She plays Autoharp and her sound has this delicate but engrossing feel. It’s like you’re seeing her play in a snow globe.’” -L Magazine March 2010
In addition to having toured nationally and internationally, Devlin has performed at many home venues in NYC, including Sidewalk Cafe, Webster Hall, Canal Room, Cake Shop, Jalopy Theatre, Spike Hill, Matchless and Pete’s Candy Store.
“Armed only with an Autoharp, she sings of the loveless and unrequited with the sweetest intonation.” -Super Ace, London/UK, May 2009.
Devlin invokes influences from scratchy phonographs, combining bitter-sweet, haunting vocals with angelic, cacophonous Autoharp melodies and poignant, insightful lyrics.
“First we had Elizabeth Devlin playing a show on her own, high voice and cooool melodies on autoharp, it was like having Pj Harvey playing her latest album at home.”
-ROCKERPARIS, April 2011
Sept 22, 2011 is Devlin’s album release party and also part of the week-long Antifolk Festival at Sidewalk Cafe. “The entire night of musicians and poets will perform in the same manner in which I recorded,” says Devlin, who booked the line-up for the evening, “ONE musician…ONE mic…ONE instrument (except the poets, of course).” She goes on to say, “I have a supreme respect and love for the creativity of all the folks in the line-up and encourage everyone to stay for the whole night!”
“When the curators, introduced Elizabeth Devlin, a singer and an autoharp angelic tunes player, I felt a little bit like I was taken back in time to San Francisco in the 1950s, I swear I nearly stood up from my chair and yelled: ‘Yeah, guys, let’s do it; let’s merge the arts together; let’s get rid of the concept of the forms of art and let’s get mutually inspired.”
-Bushwick Daily, A Review: Fireside Follies #3, January 2011
Devlin’s a two time recipient of the Common Ground On the Hill, Roots Music & Arts Memorial Scholarship through which she attended Traditions Music Workshops in 2007 & 2008. Devlin was awarded the 2008 Mary Lou Orthey Scholarship & attended the Mt. Laurel Autoharp Gathering where she received the Leonard A. Reid - Peoples Choice Award:Outstanding Vocal Performance.
LINE UP:
7:00pm Kyle Avallone
7:40pm Little Cobweb
8:20pm Bernard King Presents
9:00pm Erin Regan
9:40pm Soft Black
10:20pm Elizabeth Devlin
11:00pm Cockroach
11:40pm Jon Berger
Along with this night being an album release party, it is also part of the week long Antifolk Festival 2011 at Sidewalk Cafe www.sidewalkmusic.net !
April 17th, 2011
APRIL IN PARIS: 2011 TOUR!
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April 16 Sat - Oliver Peel Sessions - Paris, France
WEB: www.youtube.com/user/oliverpeelsessions , oliverpeelsessions.blogspot.com
with Heligoland - www.heligoland.org
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April 18 Monday - Espace B - 16 rue Barbanègre Paris, France
WEB: www.espaceb.net or www.facebook.com/espaceb
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April 20 - Planet Claire - Aligre 93.1 FM - Paris, France - WEB: www.aligrefm.org
with Lisa Li-Lund of Big Crunch Theory - www.myspace.com/thebigcrunchtheory
STREAM ONLINE at 6:30pm GMT (1:30pm EST): http://aligrefm.org/player/PlayerStream.htm
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April 21 - Le Cri de la Mouette - Place Heracles, 31000 Toulouse, France - WEB: www.lecridelamouette.com
with Henning - www.henning-specht.de - Deux Mille Records - www.2000records.com
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April 22 - Le Cabou’Fach - Loubieres, Ariege, France
with Kick Out the Cat - www.myspace.com/kickoutthecat
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April 26 - L’international - 5/7 Rue Moret 75011 Paris, France - WEB: www.linternational.fr
with Guillaume Léglise of My Broken Frame - www.myspace.com/mybrokenframe
and Lisa Li-Lund of Big Crunch Theory - www.myspace.com/thebigcrunchtheory
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March 29th, 2011
NEW VIDEO: PHOENIX
Phoenix - Ladybug - 7″ Vinyl 3 Song EP w/ 4 Song CD, Elizabeth Devlin
Another song & new video from my Ladybug 7″ released this year! Please watch, spread, share, comment, post! Special thanks to Alexandra Breznay for the hazey-dazey video-visualizations!
XO-E
March 20th, 2011
“For Whom The Angels Named…”
I just recorded my next full length album, “For Whom The Angels Named…” last night at FLUX, NYC with Daniel Sanint (also engineered Ladybug EP & Alice P. Ogler Session). It was under the largest full moon seen in 20 years! We started at 10pm and wrapped at 2am. 10 tracks - very simple, minimal, LIVE recordings, with a couple vocal/room/AH mics and a direct for the AH. Mixing this week!
xoxo,
Elizabeth
March 20th, 2011
“For Whom The Angels Named…”
F. Scott Fitzgeralds Grave, Rockville, MD.
In winter of 2010, we drove through a blizzard to the grave of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s grave in Rockville, MD. We almost froze to death. My lips were blue under the red lipstick but it was worth it! These photos will be used as the the art for my next full length album, “For Whom the Angels Named…”
Very special thanks go out to Lia and her amazing eye, Alex, for breathing art-deco, antique elegance into an ill fitting, vintage, sequined gown, Kirsten, for designing me a third eye via a peacock feather in my hair and Jim for driving through the storm.
“For Whom The Angels Named…”F. Scott Fitzgeralds Grave, Rockville, MD
Photography: Lia Robinson - www.liaphotos.com
Wardrobe Design: Alex Konen - www.ark-nyc.com
Accessory Design: Kirsten Voell
