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Meleana Cadiz & Mikael Kennedy’s Deep Blue Heaven
| Melaena Cadiz’s new LP, Deep Below Heaven, is out today on Wild Kindness Records!
In June, Cadiz will embark on a month long tour celebrating the joint release of her album and her husband’s, Mikael Kennedy, photo collection both titled Deep Below Heaven. The album is now streaming in its entirety at Wondering Sound and don’t miss Mikael Kennedy’s directorial debut for Cadiz’s beautiful lead single, “Needles River“ Early love for Deep Below Heaven: “The songs on Melaena Cadiz‘s new LP Deep Below Heaven, out May 20, are warm and welcoming, founded on gentle acoustic guitars, light percussion and her strong alto.” Wondering Sound “Melaena Cadiz may infuse her songs with folk, country and pop undertones, but the soft, carefully-constructed result is all her own.” Paste “New York-based singer Melaena Cadiz’s rustic folk earworm…” NPR Music “…takes you down the silhoutte stricken lonely landscapes of water, roads, and misty dirt paths.” IMPOSE “Brooklyn-based singer songwriter Melaena Cadiz is a a great storyteller. This Michican native combines folk, country, and pop in her music to create scenes which showcase lonely lives across America.” Audiofemme “Listen closely, and you’ll notice that somebody’s world is collapsing.” CMT Edge “…a dreamy sort of Americana/folk.” BreakThru Radio “It’s an amazing mix of folk, pop, and country, that will remind older listeners of some of Natalie Merchant’s best.” Arena ——– The tallest sky he’d ever seen. – Sam Shepard On June 1st, 2014 husband and wife duo, folk singer Melaena Cadiz and photographer Mikael Kennedy, will hit the road on a month-long tour celebrating the joint release of Cadiz’s album and Kennedy’s photo collection, both titled “Deep Below Heaven.” In 2012, they were both at work on their respective projects—Cadiz wrote songs from their home in NYC, while Kennedy wandered the country to shoot some of its most remote locations—and decided to combine forces. Cadiz would send Kennedy snippets of songs in progress, and he would send her images of where he was, each inspiring the other. Cadiz’s second album, which will be released on Wild Kindness Records on May 20, is a series of portraits of the people inhabiting the edges of this world—stories plucked from the American landscape using the language of folk, pop, and country. “There’s always been a cross-pollination between my songwriting and Mikael’s work,” Cadiz explained. “For a long time our work spaces at home faced each other, so one of us would find an inspiring song, image, or fragment of literature and share it with the other. When Mikael was on the road, he would send me photos of where he was, looking out at these unreal, epic landscapes, and there was a sense of peace in his photos that the characters in my songs long for.” Kennedy’s photo series is a collection of big skies and open spaces published in a newsprint zine, that give one the sense of walking alone into a new world, full of wonder and grace. “I was lying in my tent on the South Rim of Big Bend. Thunder- storms were rolling across the desert, crashing against this plateau that felt like an island. My tent was lifting off the ground in the wind. The lyrics to ‘Sharp White Teeth’ were running though my head. Melaena wrote me one day to say she’d decid- ed on an album title: ‘Deep Below Heaven,’ taken from a line in a Sam Shepard book I’d given her. I turned and looked out and thought it’s where I was, I was standing in it.” They travel together now bringing a glimpse of the worlds they inhabited and created during that time, only to be described as ‘Deep Below Heaven’ with shows in Nashville, Los Angeles, Oakland, Portland, & Seattle with shows being added along the way. For more information visit: |