Angie Palmer
Angie's life, it is fair to say, has been a bit different. At seventeen she left England for Europe, deciding to do a bit of traveling before taking up a place at art college. In fact she ended up living there for seven years, mainly in Paris and Geneva, busking, playing bars, clubs
and small festivals.
Angies time in Europe was also spent writing songs, some of which appear on her first CD:
A Certain Kind of Distance which she
recorded on her return to England and took around the country blues and folk circuit, including two years appearing on the acoustic
stage at Glastonbury. After a chance meeting in Paris Angie struck up a songwriting partnership with Paul Mason (a lecturer in European philosophy from Manchester MetropolitanUniversity) and together
they wrote her next album romantica obscura.
Her next CD Road was released in 2003 and featured songs that have strong European influenced narratives (philosphy,literature,cinema).
"From Mojo to Maverick the music press received Road with 4 and 5 star reviews and she has been compared by many with Bob
Dylan and Joni Mitchell thanks to lyrics described by reviewers as intelligent and literate. For others her potent mix of country, blues, and folk served up with equal measures of aggression and tenderness has led her to be called the British Lucinda Williams."
Angies music is now being championed by
Bob Harris who recently
chose her as one of only two female singer-songwriters on his recent
Best of British show calling her "one of the greatest British songwriters."
Her new CD Tales of Light and Darkness is a more musically diverse record, with longer storytelling songs rubbing shoulders with shorter
simpler songs about love, loss, and redemption, again drawing heavily on literature: Steinbecks dispossessed (Rose of Sharon), Edgar Allen Poes dark visions (Ravens), and the symbolic landscapes of Mikhail Bulgakov (Fools Gold) as well as the confessional: the death of a close friend (Columbus for a Day) and starting up alone (Letters from Home). These new songs, she says, continue where Road left off, mixing strong narrative songs with the personal but a
personal that connects with the universal and which all reflect the idea of the age-old metaphysical struggle of good and
evil, life and death, light and dark.
This is to be expected from an artist of whom HMV Choice said when choosing Road as one of
their Top Ten, "not since Bob Dylans mid-60s output has a singer jammed songs with so many high-culture reference points."
ANGIE PALMER - Tales Of Light And Darkness
aKrasia Records - Cat. No. PMCD4
Distributed by Cadiz Music/Pinnacle Distribution
Some Reviews from Angiels latest Album..
Tales of Light & Darkness
"Fine English Americana from a substantial storytelling talent...exudes a convincing fluency in style that's rare among home grown performers." HMV Choice July 2006 “
One of the UK'S Finest Singer/Songwriters and fast becoming the Uncrowned Queen of British Country." Amazon.com
“Better than 99% of any album you‚ll hear this year. Original and polished” ****1/2 Country Music People
"Rare in this world of introspective songwriters Palmer has a truly narrative style at times recalling Dylan and consummately literate... utterly convincing"
Acoustic Magazine "
A lyrically sharp album with gritty vocals and powerful music that makes you sit up and listen!" ****Maverick
"Striking fourth release from Preston based songstress." 8/10 Americana UK
“Tales of Light & Darkness‚ is a superb album with quality at every turn ‚ very highly recommended.”
Fish Records "
An album with quality stamped all over it.” Blues Matters "One of this country's finest female singer-songwriters" Net Rythmns
