Gillian Grassie

Gillian to perform for Bombay Elektrik Project Jan 20th

Featuring performances by yours truly and Mumbai’s own Dischordian (nominated Most Promising Indie band of the Year by India’s leading indie-music blog, indiecision.com), followed by a screening of La Femme Nikita (yes, really), the night is sure to be an overload of awesome. And it’s free!

Serpentine getting spins across the United States!

24 AAA Radio stations in 15 states, from New York to Hawaii, have been spinning Serpentine. Thanks so much!

To check the complete list and see if a station in your hometown has me on the air, read the full blog entry.

Happy Holidays,

Gillian

First German Review!

Very kind words from my final performance in Germany at Das Consortium:

“Diese Frau ist wirklich Megaklasse. Die Kombination aus filigran gespielter Harfe zu einer Stimme, die sich mit weltklass Stars vergleichen lässt, und einer Titelauswahl, die einem jeden Zuhörer den Mund vor Staunen offen stehen lässt. Musik zu Versinken in seinen schönsten und/oder auch emotional einfühlsamsten Gedanken. Brillant! Danke.”

Vielen Dank!

Recording by the Black Forest

Blog post about my long-weekend in Freiburg recording with a wonderful young German singer-songwriter, Doro, who I met in Berlin last week.

Experimental Music at Mme Claude, Berlin

Blog entry about attending an experimental music performance at Mme Claude’s in Kreuzberg, Berlin last week.

“…I kept looking around at the other audience members to try and find some cues for how to go about appreciating this sort of performance. Some seemed as baffled as me, our eyes catching across the room. They looked down quickly with embarrassment while others flashed tentative smiles, hoping for someone else to confirm their assessment that “this is really weird.” But others sat on the floor with their heads between their knees, reverent, or perhaps seasick. This is how I felt – the latter – as though the sound waves reverberating against the fluid in my eardrum were enough to give me motion sickness…”