Biography
Though Alina Simone was born in the Ukraine she sings of life in the suburbs of Massachusetts, NYC and “the flat, open spaces of Texas”. She started out busking on the streets of Austin but has since released one EP and two critically acclaimed albums in both English and Russian. The New Yorker has called her voice “potent and ethereal”, and Venus characterized her songwriting as “mysterious, gritty and raw”.
Bands that Alina SImone has opened for include Dead Meadow (Matador), Alec Ounsworthy (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah), Orienda Fink (Saddle Creek), Scout Nibblett (Too Pure), Jason Anderson (K recs), Eugene Mirman (Subpop), Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett of Arcade Fire) Jason Collett (of Broken Social Scene) and The Wedding Present.
Instrumentation
Alina Simone - vocals, guitar
John Lynch - Drums
Chris Barrey - Guitars
Ljova Zhurbin - Viola
Discography
For streaming tracks, go to myspace.com/alinasimone
Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware (Fifty Four Forty or Fight!) to be released August 2008
Placelessness (Fifty Four Forty or Fight!) released 9/18/2007
Prettier in the Dark EP (Fractured) released 4/19/2005.
Esopus Magazine Fall 2005 Compilation, "On Being Complicated" (which also included The Mountain Goats, Josephine Foster and Jim White)
Links
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