Today, We would like to feature 3 emergents and remarkables artists who ‘ve got their exposure on the Fox TV series Bones (Bavid Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel).

These features have already generated an amazing amount of exposure like Irish Susan Enan since she catch our eyes (and since several monts before) with her new song “Bring On The Wonder” featuring and guesting back vocals, our Lovely Canadian Grammy Awards Sarah McLachlan.
Since her debut solo EP in 2003, Enan has toured extensively in Europe and the US and has opened for Tony Bennett, Roger McGuinn (in the UK and USA), Aqualung, Damien Rice, Tom McRae, Mike Doughty (of Soul Coughing), and toured the USA for 38 dates with Over The Rhine. With Sarah McLachlan on her sides, Enan is accomplishing a promising career.
The two other features of the day are British Eliza Lumley, a beautiful and surprising jazz vocalist and Californian Sarah Lov recently signed with Canadian label Nettwerk.

All of these 3 features are working on their respective debut album and there is no doubt, we will review them as soon as they will be released !

01. Susan Enan Feat Sarah McLachlan - Bring On The Wonder

02. Eliza Lumley - Black Star

03. Sara Lov - Foutain

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Merci de votre compréhension !

In 2005 with the release of their debut album Down This Road, on ACR/RCA, The Wrights joined an elite class of critically acclaimed artists that represent the best of what Nashville music city has to offer. Now, with their upcoming EP, The Wrights on independent label ACR they hope to build upon the success of the first release. Produced by Keith Stegall (Alan Jackson), John Kelton, and Paul Kennerley (Emmylou Harris), this EP howcases what is truly pure about country music.

This is officialy the cover for Sarah McLachlan’s first Best-Of : Closer, release on October 7, 2008, featuring two new studio tracks : “U Want Me 2″ and “Don’t Give Up on Us”.

Dido’s third album, Safe Trip Home, will be released in early November 2008. Right now, you can hear an exclusive track : “Look No Further”.

The Works, Jonatha Brooke’s seventh solo release, is a full-length album of previously unheard lyrics by Woody Guthrie, set to original music written and performed by Brooke. Brooke is one of a select group of artists to be invited by Nora, Guthrie’s daughter into the Guthrie Archives to create new works from his vast collection of lyrics, prose, poetry and artwork. Brooke co-produced The Works with the legendary Bob Clearmountain (Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones). Recorded over a two-month period in New York City, several acclaimed musicians including keyboardist Joe Sample (Eric Clapton, B.B. King), bassist Christian McBride (Sting, Diana Krall), drummer Steve Gadd (Paul Simon, Eric Clapton), and steel guitarist Greg Leisz (Joni Mitchell, k.d. lang, Wilco), joined Brooke in the studio. The album features duets with artists Keb’ Mo’ on ‘All You Gotta Do Is Touch Me’; Eric Bazilian on ‘There’s More True Lovers Than One’ ; Glen Phillips on ‘Sweetest Angel’; with a special guest appearance by Derek Trucks playing slide guitar on ‘New Star.’

There are several songs on this album that stand out, but the opener “My Sweet and Bitter Bowl” is one of the very best with verses possessing the haunting dark edge of a traditional Appalachian folk tune. “You’d Oughta Be Satisfied Now” is another stunner, building on that classic Guthrie folk style with a bluesier depth to the guitar work. Both songs bring out the throatier tone of Jonatha’s voice.

The album contains also two completely original songs - the lusterless “Little Bird” and the much more interesting “Taste Of Danger”. Yet it’s the Guthrie-Brooke songwriting combination that produces the real magic here.

This album is Brooke’s highly creative work ever on a record and will definitely have a place in your heart and memories.

Powerful and distinctive 21-year-old singer/songwriter Hilary McRae, the first developing artist to be signed to Hear Music delivers her debut album Through These Walls, featuring the infectious single “Every Day (When Will You Be Mine).” Her refreshing style and captivating melodies seem to have time traveled to this decade from the 1970s echoing the vintage pop/rock of the ’60s and ’70s while blazing headlong into a territory all her own with vibrant rhythms and textures of old-school, horn-drenched, uptown Joss Stone-like’s R&B and a dynamic setting for the timelessly bittersweet songs and rich. This stunningly accomplished newcomer, pianist and vocalist graduated from the prestigious Berklee School of Music has penned ALL of the songs on this album! McRae’s vocal instrument is capable of withering intensity one moment, hushed intimacy the next — a perfect match for these songs of uncommon candor and humanity — songs that could only have emanated from an “old soul”.

Armed with little more than an acoustic guitar and her fragile alto, San Francisco folk singer/songwriter Emily Jane White’s dark folk-rock has caught our attention by offering complex tales of melancholy and isolation. While comparisons to contemporaries like Cat Power and Hope Sandoval are frequent, Emily’s music owes a clear debt to classic female jazz and blues singers such as Billie Holiday. Fooling around with music since pre-school, Emily started on piano around the same time she learned to read, eventually picking up the guitar during her college days at UC Santa Cruz. While doing stints in an array of college punk and metal bands, she began writing her own songs and fronted her own group, the Diamond Star Halos.

The title of Jesca Hoop’s debut album, Kismet, could easily refer to the twists of fate that led to its existence. Certainly it seems like destiny that Hoop would land a five-year tenure as nanny to the children of Tom Waits, whose influence is spattered generously across Kismet. Another bit of good fortune came in 2004, when Waits’s publisher, Lionel Conway sent a demo version of “Seed of Wonder” to the highly influential radio host Nic Harcourt at Los Angeles station KCRW, who helped make the song one of the most requested in the station’s history. Without an official release to her name, Hoop was tapped to open for the Polyphonic Spree during its summer 2007 tour.

As a songwriter and a performer, Sarah Masen has won the enthusiasm of critics and a committed, eclectic fan base for over 10 years. Whether immersed in electronica or as solo acoustic broadsides, her work speaks to all things awkward, political, dysfunctional, and seemingly mundane. Intense attentiveness to her music has been known to lead listeners toward jumping, jiving, weeping, wailing, and laughing through gnashing of teeth.

Originally from the suburbs of Detroit, Sarah now lives in Nashville with her husband, author David Dark, and their three children. In recent months, she’s taken to recording music with the members of Bulb and making little handcrafted EPs, with each sleeve following the snowflake model of containing a slightly different work of art. Three titles are available on-line: Woman’s Work Is Alchemy, Magic That Works, and A History of Lights and Shadows at Sarah’s website : http://www.sarahmasen.com/albums