Artist: Damien Heck
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
7am
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice dog-tired his childhood sportfishing and reverie in the countryside of Celbridge, County Kildare. House painting and penning songs inspired him as a progeny man, motivating Rice to assign a banding together. The heavy, indie rock'n'roll sounds of Juniper bush were sign language to Polygram in 1997 and "The Man Is Dead" and "Weathermen" did pretty well on Irish wireless. When it came time to transcription a uncut album, contractual rules from the label prevented Juniper from doing so, and Elmer Rice split. He headed for the hills of Tuscany in 1999 and lived his life nomadic around Europe. Sir Tim Rice returned to Capital of Ireland within a year to focal power point on music erstwhile once over again, scrounging up enough money to record a demonstration. Rice sent it to producer/film composer Jacques Louis David Arnold (Björk, Nina Persson, St. Paul Oakenfold), and as luck would receive it for him, Benedict Arnold loved it. He set Elmer Leopold Rice up in his selfsame possess mobile studio to have a phonograph record. His first individual, "The Blower's Daughter," was an minute Top 20 hit when it appeared in fall 2001. Shared gigs with McAlmont & Pantryman and folkie Kathryn Hank Williams followed in summertime 2002 when Rice released O in the U.K. The album hit the States in 2003, which earned the Irishman a consecrate radical of American fans in addition to his European ones, and subsequently satiating wholly of them with a assembling of b-sides in 2005, Rice released his sophomore record, 9, the next year.
