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Silver Lake, California, United States | SELF

Silver Lake, California, United States | SELF
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"Gwendolyn Fair"

The music they make is cheerfully indefinable, strange and whimsical and threaded throughwith an innocence that inspires. - The Los Angeles Times


"Scoring the Clubs"

The mono-monikered Gwendolyn is one of LA's sweet pleasures and secret treasures. She sings in a multi-octaved voice while dressed in ensembles out of a Rennaissance Fair being held on Mars. Her utterly hooky, memorable melodies take the quirkiest turns, making one wish Frank Zappa was alive to hear her - he would have been smitten by her both childlike and demented demeanor. Her album, Ultrasounds (Whispersquish), a difficult thing to catagorize, roughly belongs in the the open-ended Psychedelic-Folk genre. "Freedom of the Heart (Ooodily, Ooodily)" was featured in last years's film Chuck and Buck and contains a bubblegumed chorus that will follow you around like a warm kitty. And the avant-garde kazoo break in "Snail Trail" breaks new groung for that petite toy ax. She's be accompanied by standup bass, glass harmonica and percussion - and her endearing smile. - LA Weekly


"Listen 2 This - What's Rocking Our World"

For postcollegiates, DEW offers abstract meditations on obsession amid a psychedelic-acoustic cabaret that suggests Sam Phillips borrowing Tom Waits' bottle-banging percussion. Even when she sings of being swallowed up in some ill-chosen lover's void, Gwendolyn maintains a sense of wonder about the whole consumptive process.
DEW: B+ - Entertainment Weekly


"Tom Schulte"

Gwendolyn has the oddball metaphors and quirky, rolling acoustic guitar melodies that recall Syd Barrett and his Madcap Laughs album. This madcap, crazy wisdom exudes from such tracks as "Eskimo" and "Cuckoo For You". This gives her songs a unique quality and fills the arrangements with surprise and freshness. You may have heard Gwendolyn before, she is responsible for the catchy "Freedom of the Heart (Ooodily, Ooodily)" from the film Chuck and Buck. She also has a medieval, almost eerie quality to some songs, like the dirge ballad "Lady Stange". She is in good company here. Ralph Carney (Tom Waits) provides some horns and lap guitar while Quazar is on hand to provide all sorts of found object percussion. Quirky and engaging, this is a splendiferous album. (4.5) - Outsight and others


"Gwendolyn at Tangier w/ Jonathan Richman"

Clad in a long blue Little-House-On-The-Prairie ruffled dress and London raver-style black boots, Gwendolyn in person presents a striking and dichotomous persona, at once folky and then somehow uber-hip. Her band consists of... a broken stand-bass... glass harmonica... percussion out of such varied and untraditional instruments as pots and pans... while Gwendolyn plays guitar as she sings. A rag-tag ensemble, looking as if they fit best in some gypsy encampment in an abandoned train yard somewhere, like a bunch of hobos. A cynic might initially sneer at her sweetness and simplicity, but give them five minutes in her presence... they'll be won over.

Gwendolyn is redefining folk for an all ages, all levels of cool crowd, and her sincerity shines through every unconventional tune she sings.




























- muchomasproductions.com


"LA MUSIC AWARDS"

Voted "Best New Genre/Uncatagorzable Artist of 2003" - La Weekly


"The Music Never Stops"

Gwendolyn's DEW named #1 Album of 2003 - KPFK


Discography

Ultrasounds (2000)
Dew (2003)
Lower Mill Road (2007)
Bright Light (2011)

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The music of California songwriter Gwendolyn is playful, poignant yet oddly magical. Her songs inspire the mystery inside.

Her debut ULTRASOUNDS (2000) includes childlike anthem, "Freedom of the Heart (Ooodily, Ooodily)," heard in Mike White's film CHUCK & BUCK (Lionsgate, 2000).

Her sophomore album DEW (2003) received #1 Album of the Year: The Music Never Stops' Top Ten Albums of 2003 - KPFK

Producer Ben Vaughn brought Gwendolyn to Scotland to create a more traditional sounding folk album with the local musicians there. LOWER MILL ROAD (2007). “…sounds like Robin Williamson’s little sister.“ Paul Kerr, Americana UK.

Currently, Gwendolyn has released BRIGHT LIGHT - a more country-flavored album. "With beautiful lyrics, stellar production and catchy songs, Gwendolyn's 'Bright Light' is one of the best (and most original) Americana albums of 2011." CountryChart.com

Composer for Showtime's hit comedy WEEDS, she has also released a number of albums for preschoolers under the influence of her inner child: GWENDOLYN AND THE GOOD TIME GANG.