Hope Sandoval

[bedhead_dl]

I was just reading a thread about music to sleep to (http://www.joblo.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37911) and I came accross the name Hope Sandoval getting a lot of thumbs up for this kind of thing. I myself really enjoy singer/songwriter artists and she comes across as one of those.

I'm kind of not downloading music anymore. Because I can't and probably won't so I though you fellow schmoes could help me out.

What kind of music is she? What's her best material? Who is she like?

I'm just wondering what she's like. I've been to her website and she seams like a really mellow artist. Maybe like Eva Cassidy or Norah Jones? I don't know...

Any help and stuff would be great. Cheers.

[Romero&Juliet]

her first band, Mazzy Star, is borderline neo-psychedelia. there were at least six members in the band at one point and all you get is some really laid back, simplistic stuff... a lot (LOT) of experimentation and overdrive, but the production works it in seamlessly... seriously, within their three albums you get torch music, country blues, HARDDD ass rock. All with that Mazzy Star touch of beauty... there's something for Everyone.. EVVVVERYONE..

ermmm.. A lot of people consider it drug msuic.. I can see where they're coming from.......

and her voice.. gawwd, its like butter. I cant even describe it.


hope's solo stuff is for diehard fans, I'm afriad.. well.. no true: there's a lot of REALLY beautiful shit happening on Bavarian Fruit Bread, but its a little too arty for a lot of tastes. Mine included.

[Psychocandy]

Hope Sandoval was the lead singer with a band called Mazzy Star who produced, I think, three amazing albums. They are pretty unique in what they do (athough some of the stuff that The Velvet Underground did with Nico was a definite influence). Hope has the voice of an angel and the backing music is kinda narcoleptic rock but that's a pretty misleading description because it's a very beautiful sound. The three albums are Among My Swan, So Tonight That I May See and She Hangs Brightly. Mazzy Star are no longer an ongoing concern but Hope has moved on and released an album under the name Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions. Musically it's not a million miles distant from what she was doing with Mazzy Star. Business as usual. I actually got into Mazzy Star as a result of Hope dueting with Jim Reid from The Jesus & Mary Chain on a song called Somtimes Alway. It's a cracking song (i'm a sucker for duets). Anyway...Mazzy Star...well worth investigating.