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Iemand ook al kennis gemaakt met deze geweldige singer/songwriter? Lange tijd niet van die heerlijke muziek gehoord.

Haar cd is nog niet te verkrijgen in de winkels, hij wordt verwacht in de 2e week van januari. (bol.com heeft hem wel al, import) Ik heb wel al een Ep gekocht via de ipodstore...ennee ik kan er geen genoeg van krijgen.

Luister eens naar muziek www.kttunstall.com is zeker de moeite waard.

Bio:

KT Tunstall is a sparkling new songwriter with Chinese blood, a Scottish heart, great legwarmers and a cool name - "well, it's got a bit more attitude than Kate which just says farmer's daughter to me," she laughs. KT celebrates classic singer-songwriting in the tradition of Rikki Lee Jones, Carol King and Fleetwood Mac with an articulate, accessible, immediate brew of rootsy sass, wistful quandary and after-hours atmosphere. The latest in a line of outstanding contemporary Scottish songwriters including Texas, Fran Healy, Teenage Fanclub and The Beta Band, KT's unique perspective offers a rare emotionally connecting intensity through it's gripping lyrical bite and heartfelt melody.

She grew up in the university town of St Andrew's ("beautiful but sheltered, a little bubble"), always knowing she had been adopted at birth. "I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild."

Her debut album 'Eye To The Telescope' is the creative consequence of that inquiring imagination. "My songs examine and explore little specific emotions or situations or stories," she explains. "They're kitchen table songs, like a conversation between me and one other person. It's almost like an alien has been sent to get emotional samples from human beings and put it all together on a record."

KT spent her childhood up hills and under canvas with her outward-bound parents. Music was never really part of the equation until her older brother discovered the joys of hair metal. "I would sit outside his room and record his music through his door."

Her first album was the Never-ending Story soundtrack, but her favourite, reassuringly, is David Bowie's 'Hunky Dory'. "Its sound really touched my love for songwriting and spacey stuff," she says. "I was really into sci-fi books as a kid. My dad is a physicist and he used to take my brothers and I into his lab when we were little. We played games with liquid nitrogen and Van de Graaff generators. He had the keys to the observatory at St Andrew's University and he'd get us up in the middle of the night to show us Halley's Comet. That's partly why the album is called 'Eye To The Telescope.'"

The young active KT took up piano, then flute and gradually her singing voice developed its earthy individuality, "I'm pretty certain that I learned how to sing because someone gave me an Ella Fitzgerald tape - she was my singing teacher."

By her mid-teens, KT had started writing her own songs, "but I was just coming out with this schmaltzy love nonsense. It was a complete vomit of puppy love. But I thought I was rocking." At 16, she took up the guitar, teaching herself from a busker's book. Schmaltz was junked; a musical epiphany ensued.

Hungry for experiences and independence, she gained a scholarship to Kent School in Connecticutt, New England and absorbed gigs by The Grateful Dead and 10,000 Maniacs. She also spent time on a hippy commune, formed her first band, The Happy Campers, and played a host of informal gigs. "By the second week of playing an open mic slot I was their 'special guest from Scotland!'," she recalls.

Next stop on her personal odyssey was a music course at Royal Holloway College, where she tried and failed to form another band. "I managed to win Battle Of The Bands with one mandolin player! It was me and eleven goth bands and I won."

After vanquishing the goths, KT returned to St Andrews and became immersed in the grassroots scene which spawned The Beta Band and the Fence Collective, forming a group with Fence's Pip Dylan and honing her tastes with an ambrosial diet of James Brown, Lou Reed, Billie Holliday, Johnny Cash and PJ Harvey.

A few years and bands later, it was crunch time for Tunstall. She hit London again where, finally, things started to fall into place. Working relationships were forged, deals were secured. She began writing projects with Swedish songwriter/producer Martin Terefe and London-based Orcadian Jimmy Hogarth and London's Tommy D. With over a hundred songs in her pocket, set to work on her debut album with her new band and legendary U2/New Order/Happy Mondays producer Steve Osborne at the helm.

"Steve was producer and engineer - he did everything. He even invited me to stay with him and his family so we could work longer. We recorded the album in this gnarly little studio in the woods in Wiltshire. It was a disabled guy's house. The vocal booth was the wheelchair ramp between his bedroom and the control room. So you could either sing going downhill or uphill. It was perfect, so raw. He's got this little shack in the garden where all the local bands rehearse. It was like Deliverance."

Minus the psychopathic locals, presumably. And no duelling banjos either. "I didn't want to take too much equipment into the studio because it's when you have to be inventive that you get interesting music. Tom Waits said if you want something to sound like a cardboard box being hit with a boot, then hit a cardboard box with a boot."

This lo-fi, visceral, boot-wielding approach was inspired by KT's recent conversion to the hiss and crackle of early blues. "On the whole, I'm a positive, skippity-la-la person but I love the dark side of music and I will always want to explore that. It's a positive-sounding album but there's stuff underneath for sure."

Since completing 'Eye To The Telescope', life has been a blur of gigs, first as support to Joss Stone, then a tour of Europe, singing with 'klezmer hip-hop' band Oi Va Voi, who ignited the Avalon Stage at Glastonbury.

"It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs."

Now KT is raring to channel all her infectious energies into her own music. "I'm not exactly sure what has driven me so hard," she says. "I've never questioned it. I've never had a back-up plan. I was never going to do anything else."

Bron: kttunstall.com
~if they only knew love, true love, to love, like this before~
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Dit vindt onze nederlandse keuringsdienst van muziek ervan:

KT Tunstall Eye To The Telescope Rare tijd voor een debuut, maar wat een mooie cd is dit. Eye To The Telescope is een opzienbarende cd die zonder twijfel behoort tot de beste debuten van het jaar. Dat KT Tunstall veel te bieden heeft wisten we al. Ze zong bij Oi Va Voi en was al een paar keer te zien in Jools Holland’s Later. Een cd van het kaliber van Eye To The Telescope hadden we echter nog niet verwacht. Eye To The Telescope is een ongelooflijk knappe cd. Een cd waarop Joni Mitchell en Rickie Lee Jones achtige singer-songwriter pop wordt vermengd met eigentijdse jazzy accenten, toegankelijke pop en hier en daar wat electronica. KT Tunstall voorziet het geheel van lekkere bluesy vocalen en manifesteert zich uiteindelijk als de alternatieve variant op momenteel populaire zangeressen als Dido en Norah Jones. Lekker toegangelijk, maar wel met inhoud. Te laat voor de jaarlijstjes helaas, maar dat maakt deze cd niet minder essentieel.
~if they only knew love, true love, to love, like this before~
pi_24435715
Ik zag haar live een maand of twee terug toen ze een showcase deed voor Virgin/Relentless in London.
Dat was een dag of drie na haar optreden bij Jools Holland (waar de bonus track op de CD vandaan komt).
De False Alarm EP draaide ik al vaak maar Eye To The Telescope is ook erg naar mijn smaak!

pi_24725518
Erg goede muziek, ik heb laatst de EP gehoord. Ze maakt vooral mooie muziek, het heeft iets breekbaars.....de single is ook een van de betere nummers en doet me soms een beetje aan Coldplay denken. Acoustisch is volgens mij op haar best en de minimale manier van produceren past erg goed bij de songs......

Ben dus benieuwd naar het hele album...
pi_25215380
Vorige week in Londen zien optreden met band. Was wel heel erg goed. Doet ook wat nummers alleen, heel indrukwekkend. ...en ook nog es een heel stoere chick...
.:. "I've got feelings, just like you" .:.
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en morgen solo in de paradiso...
.:. "I've got feelings, just like you" .:.
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ik ben geweest naar haar solo optreden in paradiso...en ik kan alleen maar zeggen dat het SUPER was. echt een mega goede act met haar "band in the box"
~if they only knew love, true love, to love, like this before~
  vrijdag 3 juni 2005 @ 22:18:24 #8
70004 niksan
net een beetje meer
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Kt Tunstall

KT Tunstall is a sparkling new songwriter with Chinese blood, a Scottish heart, great legwarmers and a cool name - "well, it's got a bit more attitude than Kate which just says farmer's daughter to me," she laughs. KT celebrates classic singer-songwriting in the tradition of Rikki Lee Jones, Carol King and Fleetwood Mac with an articulate, accessible, immediate brew of rootsy sass, wistful quandary and after-hours atmosphere. The latest in a line of outstanding contemporary Scottish songwriters including Texas, Fran Healy, Teenage Fanclub and The Beta Band, KT's unique perspective offers a rare emotionally connecting intensity through it's gripping lyrical bite and heartfelt melody.

Bron

Dit album wordt deze zomer mijn favoriet
"May the wind always be at your back and
the sun always upon your face, and the
winds of destiny carry you aloft to
dance with the stars."
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topic 71000
pi_27621962
Feli.
Ik wilde hem. !1
  vrijdag 3 juni 2005 @ 22:19:20 #11
70004 niksan
net een beetje meer
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quote:
Op vrijdag 3 juni 2005 22:18 schreef Fokkedop het volgende:
topic 71000
De search doet het niet goed

Zó bedoelde je het
"May the wind always be at your back and
the sun always upon your face, and the
winds of destiny carry you aloft to
dance with the stars."
pi_27621983
Ze is wel een lekker ding. En idd gefeliciteerd met je topic nr
  vrijdag 3 juni 2005 @ 22:23:17 #13
42658 Noca
Voetbalt O+
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quote:
Op vrijdag 3 juni 2005 22:18 schreef Fokkedop het volgende:
topic 71000
  vrijdag 3 juni 2005 @ 22:27:49 #14
11502 nipeng
The last ride is free
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niksan denkt ook, probeer hier een topic te openen, krijg ik allemaal getallen om me heen
sorry hoor, we gaan weer ontopic
  vrijdag 3 juni 2005 @ 22:41:06 #16
70004 niksan
net een beetje meer
pi_27622641
Ik deed het dan ook echt om het topicnummer !

iig bedankt allemaal

[ Bericht 43% gewijzigd door niksan op 03-06-2005 22:46:41 ]
"May the wind always be at your back and
the sun always upon your face, and the
winds of destiny carry you aloft to
dance with the stars."
  zaterdag 4 juni 2005 @ 10:16:29 #17
42816 peaceman
Peace Man! ofzo...
pi_27628876
Erg leuke cd. Heb m al een paar maand nu en bevalt prima! Komt ook op Werchter!!
  maandag 13 juni 2005 @ 19:32:37 #18
42816 peaceman
Peace Man! ofzo...
pi_27896856
Al meer mensen hier die haar hebben ontdekt? Vorige week heb ik haar zelfs een paar keer op 3fm langs horen komen...opvallend!
pi_28109622
Ze komt inderdaad met regelmaat langs op 3Fm en kan niet anders zeggen dat het een te gek nummer is.

Ga haar zeker checken op Werchter
  dinsdag 21 juni 2005 @ 09:42:30 #20
42816 peaceman
Peace Man! ofzo...
pi_28109654
Gewoon gelijk de cd kopen, krijg je geen spijt van, vraag maar aan Cafca...
pi_28109693
Erg lekker album. Stoer meisje!
  dinsdag 21 juni 2005 @ 09:49:42 #22
49096 cosmick
Les Yeux Orange
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Ik luister regelmatig naar American Connection waar ik KT voor het eerst hoorde. Wel leuk! Ga het album wel eens beluisteren denk ik.
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quote:
Op dinsdag 21 juni 2005 09:42 schreef peaceman het volgende:
Gewoon gelijk de cd kopen, krijg je geen spijt van, vraag maar aan Cafca...
Zal straks eerst eens wat soundclips beluisteren als ik straks thuis ben.
  woensdag 22 juni 2005 @ 07:26:49 #24
42816 peaceman
Peace Man! ofzo...
pi_28123385
en al geluisterd Apfel?
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KT Tunstall

Geweldig album. Het is wat rustiger dan ik verwacht had, maar zeker de moeite waard
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