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First Sound
Ilene Adar
Straight-from-the-heart contemporary acoustic folk.
Collection Contents
| # | Title | Length | ||
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One of These Days | 2:22 | Play |
| 2 |
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Dirty Angels | 5:19 | Play |
| 3 |
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Wild Eye | 4:02 | Play |
| 4 |
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First Sound | 4:44 | Play |
| 5 |
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Truth Is Better Than Fiction | 2:47 | Play |
| 6 |
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Mystery Girl | 3:39 | Play |
| 7 |
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Heaven Now | 3:26 | Play |
| 8 |
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Rosie | 3:38 | Play |
| 9 |
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Waterfall | 2:29 | Play |
| 10 |
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Without You | 3:06 | Play |
| 11 |
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Invisible Girl | 2:09 | Play |
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Description
Featuring "Without You," Finalist and Honor Award winner in the 2002 Great American Song Contest, First Sound highlights Ilene's crystalline voice and straight-from-the-heart songwriting. This contemporary acoustic folk CD includes guest appearances by Northern California standouts Caren Armstrong, Robert Powell, and Megan Barton.
What People Are Saying About First Sound:
"...an enchanting collection of songs from a fresh new voice in contemporary folk music."
-- Joy McKay, Rambles Magazine
"Ilene Adar shines throughout her debut album, First Sound. The delicacy of her introspective songs belies their toughness."
-- Michael Tearson, SingOut! Magazine
"If Ilene Adar's voice was the first sound you heard on waking, it would make you feel it was going to be a great day."
-- Les Reynolds, Indie-Music.com
"Pristine vocals frame the whole project....Ilene is an incredible songwriter who knows that a song is more than rhythm...."
-- Independent Songwriter Web-Magazine
"The CD is perfect for my format.... I will keep featuring your music very often in the program."
-- J.L. Bueno, La Otra Musica radio show, Cadiz, Spain
"Ilene's music is the type that catches you unaware and grows on you."
-- Laurie-Ann Copple, CKCU Radio, Ottawa, Canada
"I like it very much."
-- Nancy Myers, KFOK Radio, Georgetown, CA
"A terrific CD."
-- Doug Dick, WVGN Radio, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
"A wonderful CD of original songs."
-- Josh Michaell, YOGASTUDIO, Larkspur, CA
"Heartfelt, powerfully written, gorgeously performed songs."
-- Caren Armstrong, Producer. Berkeley, CA
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Ilene Adar grew up in the Washington, DC area and began playing guitar as a teenager. Her early influences were Joni Mitchell and Bonnie Raitt, women who combine emotional honesty with riveting musicality in their songwriting and performances. She kept her music as a private source of pleasure and solace, though, and instead began her professional career as a visual artist, focusing her work on freeing her creativity. After the death of her brother and birth of her daughter she felt moved to tell personal and universal stories in a way that only music could express. She began writing songs and performing in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Marin County, California; her debut album, First Sound, was released in September 2002. Featuring the title track, semi-final award-winner in the 2001 international Songs Inspired By Literature contest, First Sound gives voice to the passions, grief, and joys of the human condition. With recurring themes of love, loss, and redemption, backed by spare yet moving instrumentals and harmonies, Ilene's 11 original songs and crystalline voice evoke mystery and a deep sense of spirit.