ANDREA BUNCH: Numinous

Andrea Bunch

Numinous

© 2003 Andrea Bunch (634479317958)

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"A great poet once said "make it new"... The anti-folk songs on Andrea Bunch's distinguished debut album Numinous find a common place for acoustic instrumentation and clear and powerful vocals to be enhanced by unusual samples and synthesizer sounds...."

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"Andrea Bunch is an extremely thoughtful artist - careful in her choice of words and sounds. Her soulful vocal inflections encompass a wide range of styles, and she has the ability to merge them into a coherent single vision. Her samples and her voice ring with the same emotional intensity... she cares about each equally, and what you hear in her delivery is that everything is at stake. The final output is worth the work put into it - it is an amazing debut."
Scott Free - OutVoice

Andrea Bunch has just completed Numinous, her first independent release. Andrea's songs are hybrids of self-recorded samples, synths and drums united with acoustic guitar, piano and gorgeous vocal harmonies. Much of the album was recorded in Andrea's home over the last couple of years. She finished up at Joe Casssidy's (Assassins, Butterfly Child) Musicola studio, where he recorded Aaron Miller (Assassins) and Doug Brush (Las Guitarras de Espania, Kristin Shout) on drums, Nick Macri (Bobby Conn, Euphone) on bass, Barb Nashold on vocals, and Aerin Tedesco on tenor guitar and vocals.

Usually, Andrea performs as part of a duo with Aerin Tedesco. Their live shows swing from thunderous electronic rants to dramatic acoustic ballads. They have backed each other up at many Chicago venues, including The Old Town School of Folk Music's Folk and Roots Festival, Ladyfest Midwest, Estrojam, Midwest Womyn's Autumnfest, Grrlfest, Subterranean, Martyr's, Wise Fool's Pub, The Bailiwick Theatre, Scott Free's Homolatte, Uncommon Ground, The Heartland Café and many others

Bio:

Hi all! I grew up in Iowa, amidst the woods and farmlands. As a teenager, I attended Interlochen Arts Academy in the pines of Michigan and studied theatre. College was a wash of changes of mind and heart, I lived in LA and studied acting at USC, went to Iowa City and studied Biology and Psychology at U Iowa, and finally, earned a BA from Columbia College, where I studied music. After college, I toured with the Caravan Stage Barge, a theatre/ship, where I acted and performed my original music based on the script Red Tides. I am also a yoga teacher and environmentalist. I'm thrilled to be a new board member of the Chicago Recycling Coalition, "Big Life, Little Nutshell".

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  • author: howdina

    The best part of this album is the lyrics, thoughtful and poetic. She thought about what she wanted to say, and she got the music to go with it. Special, unusual, appropo lyrics and music to go together. Congratulations.

  • andrea inspires hope, action, deep thought, and dance!
    author: arjuna greist

    andrea’s new cd is emerging as one of my favorite albums of all time. it’s rarely out of my stereo, so that when i hosted a house concert for andrea and her partner aerin tedesco, i was able to harmonize with many of the songs. everything about this cd is excellent- lyrical poetry, inventive melodies, complex time signatures, expert guitar and piano work, masterful electronic inventiveness, gorgeous production, and engaging, unexpected subject matter. andrea’s strong, rich voice is complemented by aerin’s delicious harmonies on several songs, layered beautifully with itself on others, and laid achingly bare on 'the other fish,' an a capella hymn for a pansexual, omnisensual congregation. species is an intense take on our overconsuming, ‘convenient,’ technology-dependent culture, 'earthworms' is a lesson in humble relativity, 'cottonwood' remembers trees “whose roots rot, dead under my living room,” and 'coil' asks, joyously, “what are we but spirits, water, and time?”

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