Kara Kulpa
Any Given Day
© 2005 Kara Kulpa
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Kara Kulpa is quickly making a name for herself in the Midwest folk circuit. Since the release of her demo EP, Any Given Day, in May of 2005, she has toured Midwest and East Coast as a solo act as well as in conjunction with various other artists. Highlighted venues she's performed at include Eddie's Attic in Decatur, GA and The Skellig in Waltham, MA. Kulpa also showcased at the 2005 Midwest Music Summit in Indianapolis, the 2005 Cutting Edge Music Conference in New Orleans and the 2005 Midpoint Music Festival in Cincinnati. In a side project, Kulpa can be seen fiddling and mandolining (as well as performing her own material) with the group Mercy Driver - made up of Kulpa, Chicago's Shelley Miller and New York's Jeremiah Birnbaum or touring as a duo act with Mercy Driver founding member, Dave Golden.
"poetic and soulful" - Nuvo Newsweekly
"intelligent yet unassuming folk music" - Reviewer (CDBaby)
"Kara’s harmonic voice brushes against a sharp edge blade that cuts through her lyrics with a hypnotic overtone...She’s the queen of wanderlust..." - Heather Corcoran, CoffeehouseTour.com
Website
http://www.karakulpa.com
http://www.myspace.com/karakulpa
Instrumentation
Kara Kulpa - guitar, mandolin, mountain dulcimer, pie tin&shoe horn
Becca Berbaum - vocals
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Excellent, unique music from a truly gifted artist
author: Jeremiah BirnbaumThis CD rings with simple truths, lyrical confessions and questions, statements of fancy and pure wonder, all in a new and unique voice that is a welcome addition to the folk canon. Kara Kulpa finds influence from artists ranging from Natalie Merchant to Donna The Buffalo, but her voice is truly her own--quite a feat for someone at the mere age of 22. Her instrumental skills are precise and soulful; the arrangements on this disc are sparse, yet rich in their overall effect. This disc is very well-recorded and has a timeless quality, especially on the haunting "[NK 22]", the playful and visual "Tasted The Rain" and glorious "Grace" (which shows off her breathy alto to great effect). She shows her sense of whimsy, too, in "The Capo Song", which I bet you'll be singing along to tomorrow morning. If you like intelligent yet unassuming folk music, in the aesthetic range of early Leonard Cohen and Simon and Garfunkel--and just as marvelously poetic and individualistic--you would do well to purchase this CD and keep an eye on this vibrant young woman.