Miranda Lee Richards

Miranda Lee Richards (born April 4, 1975 in San Francisco ) is an American singer-songwriter .

Life

Miranda Lee Richards was born as the daughter of cartoonists Ted and Terese Richards and grew up in a comparatively unconventional artistic environment. Her childhood and youth in San Francisco were largely shaped by the underground comic scene, and the famous comic artist Robert Crumb was de facto her godfather. Lee Richards gained his first musical experience in school bands at McAteer High School of the Arts. After graduating, she first decided to pursue a professional modeling career.

After a stay in Paris , Lee Richards returned to her hometown and began studying at San Francisco City College. During her student days she met the guitarist Kirk Hammett from Metallica through a friend , who put her in contact with the music industry and gave a little guitar lessons. First songs were recorded in Kirk's basement studio. Copies of these recordings later came into the hands of the manager of Brian Jonestown Massacre , and he invited Miranda to perform with the band. The first joint live concert took place at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1995. Although Lee Richards had ended her performances with the band after 6 months, she continued the musical collaboration with Brian Jonestown Massacre: she wrote “Reign On” on the “Bringing It All Back Home Again” EP and was co-author of “ Before I Am Gone ”on the album“ Give It Back ”.

After breaking up with Brian Jonestown Massacre, Lee Richards moved to Los Angeles and began looking for her own musical aesthetic. Here she met the producer Rick Parker know and recorded with him the debut album "The Herethereafter". The songs of this work, which is noticeably inspired by the music of the 1960s, are influenced by country , folk and neo- psychedelic rock . Many of the songs on this record landed on the soundtracks of well-known American films and TV series such as Ghost Whisperer , One Tree Hill , Without a Trace and the thriller Suspect Zero . In the following years the artist played numerous concerts and worked in the studio with artist friends such as Brian Jonestown Massacre , Tricky and Tim Burgess from the Charlatans . In 2007 she met The Jesus and Mary Chain during their tour of the US West Coast and sang "Sometimes Always" and "Just Like Honey" with Jim Reid.

In 2009 the second album "Light of X" was released, which contains melodic, mostly guitar-heavy pieces. Lee Richards wrote all of the songs in this work, including the string arrangements. In addition, she recorded the acoustic guitars, the piano and the organ. In the middle of the year she was with the previously unreleased song "Beautiful Day" on the soundtrack to the tragic comedy Adam - A Story About Two Strangers. One a little stranger than the other. represented.

On the 2010 Delerium album “Remixed: The Definitive Collection” Lee Richards sings the song “Send Me an Angel”, remixed by British trance DJ Andy Moor .

style

Miranda Lee Richards combines elements of folk , pop , country and psychedelic in her music . The artist herself prefers the term “Psychedelic Chamber Folk Rock” for this. Her musical role models include Neil Young , John Lennon , The Rolling Stones , Blondie , Mazzy Star , Beck and Chrissie Hynde . In terms of style, some critics see parallels with Hope Sandoval , Cat Power , Bat for Lashes or Edie Brickell .

Discography

• The Herethereafter ( Virgin Records , 2001)
• Early November EP (2008)
• Light of X ( Nettwerk Records , 2009)
• Echoes of the Dreamtime ( Invisible Hands Music , 2016)
• Existential Beast ( Invisible Hands Music , 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/nov/30/popandrock8
2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000898872
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4. ↑ http://www.hiponline.com/music-artists/miranda-lee-richards/
5. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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7. ↑ http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2009/06/adam-soundtrack-features-weepies-lucy.html
8. ↑ http://www.lastfm.de/music/Delerium/Remixed%3A+The+Definitive+Collection
9. ↑ http://www.elektrolurch.com/kritik/detail_3518.html
10. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/miranda-lee-richards-1
12. ↑ http://www.tonspion.de/musik/miranda-lee-richards/musik/235158
13. ↑ http://new.music.yahoo.com/miranda-lee-richards/biography/

Web links

• Official website