Clara Engel

I am an independent artist.


My music can be purchased/downloaded here:

http://claraengel.bandcamp.com
http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/ClaraEngel




"Clara Engel's voice comes to me from that deepest of all places, imaginative space, from which she visually retrieves an inner landscape converted by breath into the rock equivalent of poetry. Rarely has a voice sounded so authoritative, so unapologetic in its disclosures, so sure of its direction in going home into song...I'd say 'Madagascar' beats them all, and it's only a beginning at harnessing poetic inspiration to the resonating dynamic of voice and the lyrical ache of a great individual singer."
-Jeremy Reed: author, poet, lyricist, and biographer of Scott Walker and Marc Almond


What's even more striking than this Canadian artist's voice are her lyrics. On 'Light Years' Clara sings, "You're the rifle and the rose in my bones. Limbs fly like flowers in a storm. In a few light years we'll turn the coals. In a few light years we'll come home." With all the innovation in music today it's rare to find someone like Engel writing timeless songs that sound at home in the ribcage of rock n roll's skeleton."
-Janaka Stucky (Poet, Founder of Black Ocean Press)


"Her cavernous voice is unmatched, and her lyrics, transcendent. This is not girl with an acoustic guitar Lillith Fair fare. Clara might actually be an incarnation of the original biblical goddess/demon, Lillith. If Patti Smith and Sinead O'Connor conjured up an angel in a chapel in the basement of the Chelsea Hotel, we might be getting close to what Clara is bringing to town." - Brian King, press release for the Cuckoo Cabaret


"The biggest, bravest voice I have heard in years. Think minimalist holy blues from another galaxy."




http://www.myspace.com/claraengel

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