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Andra Dare

General Info

  • Genre: Alternative / Electronica / Gothic

    Location Seattle, Un

    Profile Views: 71656

    Last Login: 8/26/2011

    Member Since 4/8/2007

    Website andradare.com

    Record Label Downsyland (ASCAP)

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Andra has performed live in Sacramento, CA, where she's shared the stage with many well-known musicians and bands, including Cake, and Far. Her first two albums, Mythshackles and Cut, garnered critical praise in the local press and brought her national attention. Dare's most recent release, Epic Lifestyle (2011), incorporates elements of gothic, industrial, ambient, and ethereal musical styles and lyrically explores the darker side of human nature. It includes two collaborative works, The Evil Inside (feat. Heavenly Creatures, and Forest, the lyrics to which were taken verbatim from the poem <i>The Forest</i> by Ellen Zaks. Epic Lifestyle was released on July 13, 2011 and is available on iTunes and Amazon.
  • Members

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  • Influences

    The Goddess Aphrodite.. The Goddess Hekate The Goddess Persephone ..Musical Influences:.. Silence, Trance to the Sun, Bach, Per Somnia, Lycia, Biber, Unto Ashes, VNV Nation, VAS, H.M.B., Massive Attack, Guillaume de Machaut, Clairevoyant, Telefon Tel Aviv, Tori Amos, Combichrist, Ravel, Hanzel und Gretyl, Hekate, DJ Shadow/Unkle, The sound of Wind in Trees, Numinosum, Bartok, Tallis, Wumpscut, Dead Can Dance, Dark Muse, Tartini, Ritchie Hawtin (Plastikman), Clan of Xymox, K Plan, Women Breathing, Biosphere, Debaucheries and Derailings, Manuel Poncé, LightMadeFromADeadStar, Chopin, Angels of Venice, NOISUF-X, Barrios-Mangoré, VOX, Thomas Yorke, Collide, Rabbit in the Moon, Riou, Tagging Satellites, Bjork, Debussy, Sigor Ros, Albeniz, Pan Sonic, Teleman, Deftones, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Swans, Catherine Wheel, Prodigy, Grieg, Everything but the Girl, FSOL, Aphex Twin, Sainte-Colombe le Fils, Haloblack, Riou, Nitzer Ebb, Tarrega, Nine Inch Nails, Square Pusher, Portishead, LFO, Ravel, Mazzy Star, Chemical Brothers, Moby, Kate Bush, Eurhythmics, KMFDM, Cranes, Sinead O'Connor, Einstürzende Neubauten, Cocteau Twins, Siouxie & The Banshees, Bauhaus, Depeche Mode, This Mortal Coil, Ministry, Throwing Muses, The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, Pretenders, Patti Smith, Pink Floyd, Led Zeplin, Black Sabbath, Kraftwerk, and into the mists of time..... ..Poets:.. Vicente Huidobro, Anne Sexton, Rafael Alberti, WisLawa Szymborska, Ellen Zaks, Rimbaud, Shu Ting, Novica Tadic, Kitt Gardner, Robert Desnos, Raymond Moose Jackson, Rosmarie Waldrop, Roberto Juarroz, Andrea Teatrick, Marin Sorescu, Vasko Popa, Marjorie Welish, Veronica Volkow, Elaine Equi, Cesar Vallejo, Denise Levertov, Eugenio Florit, Audre Lorde, Tadeusz Rozewicz, Diane Ward, Sapphos, Homer, and into the mists of time.....
  • Sounds Like

    Gothic, Industrial, Ethereal, Ambient, Lyrical, Alternative...

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