Includes Bonus CD! Vinyl LP Mastered by Bob Ludwig!
With Vocals Similar to Feist, Nataly Delivers Original Alternative Tracks Alongside Folksy Tunes Including "Please Don't Scream"!
Nonesuch Records has signed California-based singer/songwriter Nataly Dawn, one half of the duo Pomplamoose. Dawns solo album is titled How I Knew Her.
"How I Knew Her" is comprised of 12 autobiographical, introspective songs by Nataly Dawn and was produced by her longtime partner Jack Conte. The album was recorded at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, CA with a group of accomplished musicians including Ryan Lerman (Ben Folds, A Fine Frenzy) on electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, and acoustic guitar; David Piltch (k.d. lang, Bill Frisell, Bonnie Raitt) on upright bass; Louis Cole (Louis and Genevieve, Pomplamoose); and Matt Chamberlain (Brad Mehldau, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Jon Brion) on drums. the studio, where many of Nataly's favorite Tom Waits albums were recorded, enabled the musician to play one room as a full band. Oz Fritz engineered the album with Conte; it was then mixed by Mike Mogis and mastered by Bob Ludwig.
Pomplamoose, whose other half is Nataly Dawns partner Jack Conte, has released numerous original songs and covers since 2008 as VideoSongs via their YouTube channel, which has some 350,000 subscribers; the videos themselves have had more than 80 million views to date. Dawns own YouTube channel, with solo VideoSongs and collaborations, has nearly 100,000 subscribers.
The daughter of missionaries, Dawn spent much of her childhood in Europe, where she attended Lycées Français in France and Belgium before returning to the US to study art at Stanford University. It was there that she met Conte and formed Pomplamoose, eventually performing, recording, and editing songs and videos entirely on their own, in their Northern California home. Their first upload to YouTube was a song they had written, Hail Mary, which was featured on the YouTube homepage. In 2010, the duo began releasing creative covers of pop songs such as Beyoncés Single Ladies and Lady Gagas Telephone, which grew their fan base even further. Pomplamoose played 20 live dates in 2011, to sold-out audiences across the US.
Nonesuch President Bob Hurwitz recalls the first time he heard about Pomplamoose: Brad Mehldau told me over lunch one day about these two extremely cool musicians in the Bay Area that had found a new and original way to get their music out. I looked them up online and the first video I watched was My Favorite Things. It was clear they were onto something special. He continues, I tried to get in touch with them, to no avail, but my colleague Lenny Waronker, the great producer and executive from Warners, brought us together about a year ago. The minute I heard Natalys demos I knew she had an original voice and was someone we would love to have as part of the Nonesuch family.
Nataly Dawn said of her decision to work with Nonesuch: I cant tell you how encouraging it is to be working with such passionate and intelligent people. People who care about music, and who are pleasantly old fashioned in the way they deal with artists.
In 2010, Pomplamoose released their first compilation of original songs with lyrics by Dawn entitled Pomplamoose VideoSongs, as well as an album of covers titled Tribute to Famous People. That same year, they also released The Holiday EP as an incentive for a charity book drive for the Richmond, CA, school system that brought in more than $130,000 worth of donated books. Their music could also be heard in a series of national television spots for Hyundai and Toyota. They have collaborated with other artists, like Ben Folds and Nick Hornby with whom they produced a VideoSong.
Features:
Vinyl LP
Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Includes Bonus CD of Entire Album
Fold-Out Insert with Full Lyrics
Selections:
Side A:
1. Araceli
2. Leslie
3. How I Knew Her
4. Back To the Barracks
5. Long Running Joke
6. Counting Down
Side B:
1. Caroline
2. Please Don't Scream
3. Still A Believer
4. Even Steven
5. Why Did You Marry
6. I Just Wanted You To Get Old
With Vocals Similar to Feist, Nataly Delivers Original Alternative Tracks Alongside Folksy Tunes Including "Please Don't Scream"!
Nonesuch Records has signed California-based singer/songwriter Nataly Dawn, one half of the duo Pomplamoose. Dawns solo album is titled How I Knew Her.
"How I Knew Her" is comprised of 12 autobiographical, introspective songs by Nataly Dawn and was produced by her longtime partner Jack Conte. The album was recorded at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, CA with a group of accomplished musicians including Ryan Lerman (Ben Folds, A Fine Frenzy) on electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, and acoustic guitar; David Piltch (k.d. lang, Bill Frisell, Bonnie Raitt) on upright bass; Louis Cole (Louis and Genevieve, Pomplamoose); and Matt Chamberlain (Brad Mehldau, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Jon Brion) on drums. the studio, where many of Nataly's favorite Tom Waits albums were recorded, enabled the musician to play one room as a full band. Oz Fritz engineered the album with Conte; it was then mixed by Mike Mogis and mastered by Bob Ludwig.
Pomplamoose, whose other half is Nataly Dawns partner Jack Conte, has released numerous original songs and covers since 2008 as VideoSongs via their YouTube channel, which has some 350,000 subscribers; the videos themselves have had more than 80 million views to date. Dawns own YouTube channel, with solo VideoSongs and collaborations, has nearly 100,000 subscribers.
The daughter of missionaries, Dawn spent much of her childhood in Europe, where she attended Lycées Français in France and Belgium before returning to the US to study art at Stanford University. It was there that she met Conte and formed Pomplamoose, eventually performing, recording, and editing songs and videos entirely on their own, in their Northern California home. Their first upload to YouTube was a song they had written, Hail Mary, which was featured on the YouTube homepage. In 2010, the duo began releasing creative covers of pop songs such as Beyoncés Single Ladies and Lady Gagas Telephone, which grew their fan base even further. Pomplamoose played 20 live dates in 2011, to sold-out audiences across the US.
Nonesuch President Bob Hurwitz recalls the first time he heard about Pomplamoose: Brad Mehldau told me over lunch one day about these two extremely cool musicians in the Bay Area that had found a new and original way to get their music out. I looked them up online and the first video I watched was My Favorite Things. It was clear they were onto something special. He continues, I tried to get in touch with them, to no avail, but my colleague Lenny Waronker, the great producer and executive from Warners, brought us together about a year ago. The minute I heard Natalys demos I knew she had an original voice and was someone we would love to have as part of the Nonesuch family.
Nataly Dawn said of her decision to work with Nonesuch: I cant tell you how encouraging it is to be working with such passionate and intelligent people. People who care about music, and who are pleasantly old fashioned in the way they deal with artists.
In 2010, Pomplamoose released their first compilation of original songs with lyrics by Dawn entitled Pomplamoose VideoSongs, as well as an album of covers titled Tribute to Famous People. That same year, they also released The Holiday EP as an incentive for a charity book drive for the Richmond, CA, school system that brought in more than $130,000 worth of donated books. Their music could also be heard in a series of national television spots for Hyundai and Toyota. They have collaborated with other artists, like Ben Folds and Nick Hornby with whom they produced a VideoSong.
Features:
Vinyl LP
Mastered by Bob Ludwig
Includes Bonus CD of Entire Album
Fold-Out Insert with Full Lyrics
Selections:
Side A:
1. Araceli
2. Leslie
3. How I Knew Her
4. Back To the Barracks
5. Long Running Joke
6. Counting Down
Side B:
1. Caroline
2. Please Don't Scream
3. Still A Believer
4. Even Steven
5. Why Did You Marry
6. I Just Wanted You To Get Old
