Mariee Siou
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Mariee Sioux Sobonya |
| Origin | Nevada City, California |
| Genres | Folk, psych folk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, musician |
| Instrument | Acoustic guitar |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Labels | Grass Roots Records, Almost Musique |
| Website | http://www.myspace.com/marieesioux/ |
Mariee Sioux (born February 4, 1985) is an American folk singer-songwriter. Her father Gary Sobonya is a mandolin player of Polish and Hungarian descent, and her mother Felicia is of Spanish, Paiute, and Indigenous Mexican descent.
Biography
She grew up in Nevada City, California,[1][2] where she wrote verses since she was a young child. At 17 she traveled to Patagonia to volunteer at a school for indigenous children where she taught herself to play the guitar,[1] and in 2006 she debuted her first self-released album A Bundled Bundle of Bundles. A year later in 2007 she released her first studio album Faces in the Rocks which featured her delicate acoustic guitar music alongside the Native American flute by Gentle Thunder, and mandolin played by her father Gary Sobonya.[2][3] The album had a Native American theme to it, filled with references to nature and the Native American people. Since the debut of her first album, she has drawn comparisons from Joanna Newsom to Joni Mitchell, and she has toured through North America and Europe, often alongside fellow folk singer Alela Diane.[2][3]
She released a cover version of The Cure's "Lovesong", on the Manimal Vinyl tribute record to The Cure, entitled Perfect As Cats.
Gift for the End
Gift for the End, Mariee Sioux’s new album, draws its benevolent psychedelia on the native folk roots: a canyon crisscrossed by paths leading Joni Mitchell’s, Neil Young’s and Bonnie Prince Billy’s souls into a deep world music, mystical and ancestral, either from America or from elsewhere.
Gift for the End was recorded between April 2010 and August 2011 in Placerville’s Moonsoon Studios and in the Nevada City’s Sun Dial studios. Mariee Sioux added intricate melodies to her traditional guitar picking, combining the most classical and the less conventional instruments, allowing herself a wider personal and emotional exploration. As compared to Faces in the Rocks’s consistency and uniformity, Gift for the End offers a large variety of sounds, universes and themes, the one about native Americans, as symbolized by traditional flutes, being more discreet.
The guest musicians are familiar and necessary, Sean Kae’s arrangements and production sometimes treat the traditional folk instruments in such a way: a subtle carpet of percussions, vocal harmonies, ghostly sounds features allowing to link the tracks together and to weld them into a single block of different crystals electric americana riffs ("Tule"), delicate strokes of Wurlitzer ("Icarus Eye"), classical piano tracks ("Old Magic"), new age analogic landscapes ("White Fanged Foreverness"), country western atmosphere ("Twin Song"), or English psyche folk ("Homeopathic", "Ghost in my Heart").
Release date confirmed for Gift for the End March 5th, 2012.
Discography
- Pray Me A Shadow (self released, 2004)
- A Bundled Bundle of Bundles (self released, 2006)
- Faces in the Rocks (Grass Roots Records, 2007)
- Two Tongues At One Time/Buried In Teeth 7" (Grass Roots Records, 2007)
- Gift for the End (Almost Musique Records, 2012)
References
External links
- Mariee Sioux on Grass Roots Records
- Mariee Sioux Official Myspace Page
- Mariee Sioux Lastfm Page
- live video February, 12th 2009 Rouen, France
- acoustic session for Europe and co Rouen, France
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