Hello friends,
The Outcome and I are on a short break from live shows working on new material for the next album! The next show booked is not until 12/3, but we hope to be playing at least one more show this year in september or october. I'll certainly keep you updated. Drop us a line at info@amisaraiya.com. We'd love to hear from you. It sure does gets lonely being off stage....
Ciao,
Ami
It's official! Just signed a national radio promotion deal with the fabulous Team Clermont. So you should be hearing alot more tunes from "Archaeologist" on the airwaves starting August and September!!
The good folks at Team Clermont have worked hard at promoting some fabulous indie artists like Ane Brun, Larkin Grimm, and the Heligoats (just to name a few of my favorites). I'm honored to be joining their roster.
The attractive and very talented band of folks that have been performing with me over the past few years have officially been dubbed "The Outcome." Named after the result of a series of marvelous actions and re-actions, we thought the title "The Outcome" would be best fitting. Coincidentally, The Outcome is also the title of an old Radiant Darling tune.
"The Outcome" has been an intimate rotating family of characters and guests on this musical kabob over the past year including: Shirley Rogiers, Ben Gray, Marc Piane, Kevin Smith, Liz Johnson, Ronnie Kuller, Andy Rader, Greg Hirte, Mike Racky and David Wechsler.
Currently, the band and I are on hiatus creating new tunes for the next album. We should be back and doing live shows in the fall.
See you soon!
Love,
Ami
April 30. Chicago for the People Concert & CD Release
On a blistering winter morning Ami Saraiya and Anna Soltys, two local singer-songwriters, visited a Northwest side street corner where hundreds of immigrant workers seek employment as day laborers for contractors who arrive and negotiate from their trucks. From the experience of meeting with workers from Ecuador, Honduras, Poland, and Eastern Europe, the singers wrote the new single, Sweet Chariot, to be released April 30th. (see Chicago Sun-times Article by David Hoekstra 'That's the Sound of Working' about the project)
LIsten to the "Sweet Chariot" on music page or here
The visit and song are part of a larger cultural project of bringing together artists and musicians with community organizations striving for better conditions under the banner “Chicago for the People.” Local bands such as Judson Claiborne, Rebel Diaz, Detholz, Mucca Pazza and others donate tracks for a CD whose sales will raise funds for grassroots groups to attend the US Social Forum in Detroit this June.
“The forum for us is an opportunity to gather with others who live on the margins and place ourselves at the center. We have to stop letting others speak for us and speak for ourselves. We are in the struggle because we are the struggle, its up to us,” explains analía rodriguez who’s organizing a delegation from Little Village and Pilsen. “Through combining cultural work and organizing, we’re building a movement. We want to take the city that works and make it the city that works for everyone,” B. Loewe, Social Forum organizer, states.
What: Chicago for the People Concert & CD Release: Performances by Bagwis, Black Bear Combo, and Los Vicios de Papa
Where: Logan Square Audtorium. 2539 N. Kedzie
When: April 30th 8:00pm to 2:00am
*Ticket Give-aways available for radio stations promoting the event
Tickets may be purchased at http://bit.ly/chgoppl. Buy the CD ½ price with advanced purchase of ticket.
CD Baby, the largest online distributor of independent music, names Ami Saraiya and her acclaimed debut album Archaeologist as “10 to watch in 2010.” Music editors select artists that stand out from the pack as an exciting way to share great new music. The title track from the album is currently featured in CD Baby Folk Podcast, (http://www.cdbaby.com/Playlist/314) streaming tracks from the best folk & folk-related music.
"With a sound that’s equal parts Feist, Billie Holiday, post-modern folk, Rufus Wainwright, and 60‘s pop, this album is wildly delightful and full of surprises. With a strong and nuanced voice, Saraiya is able to bring emotion and personality to every phrase, even when the lyrics involve time machines, judgment day, or kisses. Its warm production is heightened by layers of delicate aural pleasures, like subtle background vocals, surf guitars, or ethereal violins or pedal steel guitar. It's all very beautiful, well-crafted, and excellently mixed. Good stuff all around," declares CD Baby.com.
"Archaeologist" will be one of the featured tunes on the January 5th CD Baby Folk Podcast and the CD will be available for half price download during that week through CD baby and itunes
here's a list of college and non-college stations that may have Ami Saraiya's album Archaeologist... on rotation. Please call in and request a song from the album! if you have a local college or community station that you listen to that's not on the list, please call them and request a song from Archaeologist anyway. they should have the record at the station.
