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-upcoming shows-
sunday, may 12th 2013 3:30pm"In Response"an inter-arts experience exploring what happens when a visual artist and a musician create in tandem. kim will be performing/showing alongside visual artist Corey Corcoran.The Lily Pad353 Cambridge St Cambridge, MA
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Bio
- kim mayo, a conservatory-trained singer/composer with an affinity for
lush orchestration, tender melodies, and surreal lyrics, has been
singing ever since she fell in love with musicals in junior high. A 23-year-old
recent graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,
her delicately crafted songs are an amalgamation of her diverse
influences, drawing upon elements of folk, pop, jazz, and chamber
music. Performing her music in venues from Club Passim in Boston to
the Panama Jazz Festival, mayo's music reaches beyond the
constraints of genre to touch the heart and the head. She and her
(ten!) bandmates recorded her debut EP, to be released in five parts,
in one afternoon this past December, and she has just released her
debut single, "long slow love's hum." She hopes, above all, to
connect to her listeners through her personal lyrics, and that her
songs will serve as a comfort, if even momentarily.
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News
- kim mayo Eases the ‘Long Slow Hum’ of Winter With the Unveiling Of her Debut Single, “long slow love’s hum”
Boston, MA February 25th, 2013 – Kim Mayo, a conservatory-trained vocalist with an affinity for lush orchestration, tender melodies, and surreal lyrics, has quietly side-stepped onto the internet with the unveiling of her debut single, “long slow love’s hum.”
Mayo’s delicately crafted song is a perfect amalgamation of her diverse influences, drawing upon elements of folk, pop, jazz, and chamber music. The result is a soaring representation of her love of language and her skill for weaving her thoughtful melodies between sublimely constructed arrangements that defy easy categorization.
“Writing songs and arrangements is kind of like playing with Legos for me,” said the 23-year-old recent graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA. “Once I get going, and forms begin to appear on the page, or computer in my case, I move them around, add to them, take them apart, until something I like appears”
Mayo met her many bandmates (Evan Allen, piano; Jesse Heasly, bass; Anthony Ambroso, guitar and vocals; Connor Baker, drums; Michael Prentky, Trombone; Stephanie Wieseler, Flute; Tara Mueller, Violin; Jack Finucane, Tenor Saxophone; Jake Baldwin, Flugelhorn) while at the Conservatory. The ten of them recorded five of Mayo’s songs live at The Record Company in one afternoon this past December.
You can stream and download “long slow love’s hum” from www.soundcloud.com/kimmayo, and look out for the release of her next single in April of 2013.
