Antje Duvekot
Antje Duvekot (pron: Aunt-ya Doo-va-kot) ... moved to the USA from Heidelberg, Germany at age 13 and now lives in Boston. The move to the USA meant adjusting to a new family and of course a new language, trying to make new friends, but Antje seems to have overcome these challenges and has become something of a phenomenon in the ten or so years since she began writing and performing her own songs.
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Antje Duvekot
- Dandelion [3.29Mb]
- Diamond On Your Hand [4.11Mb]
- Go Now [3.94Mb]
- Jerusalem [4.46Mb]
- Sex Bandaid [4.13Mb]
The Irish-American supergroup Solas has taken a special interest in Antje's work. Their album The Edge of Silence (2002) was to contain only contemporary song writing rather than the traditional music for which they are best known, yet it was a critical and commercial triumph. And which songs made the sale? The Bob Dylan cover? Tom Waits? Jesse Colin Young? Nick Drake? Not according to music industry bible Billboard. Both it and the Irish Echo said the CD's clear highlight was the writing of an obscure German-American songwriter named Antje Duvekot. Band leader Seamus Egan still feels the rush he got when he first heard her songs. "Our reaction was immediate, like lightning," Egan says. "Her songs stood head-and-shoulders above anything else we were listening to. There's no-one writing like her today." And, that's why Egan produced Duvekot's first major studio CD, Big Dream Boulevard, which was released in 2006. Legendary producer Neil Dorfsman, who produced The Edge of Silence, as well as CD's by Dylan, Springsteen, Sting, and Dire Straits, says, "Her songs are stunning paintings of color and shade, and always generate the heat and light that real art should."
Antje's CD, "Big Dream Boulevard", was chosen as the Top Folk Release of 2006 by the Boston Globe.
"This debut album, is the most refreshing, lyrically-impacting record we've heard in ages. A STUNNING DEBUT" Maverick Magazine (UK)
"This is a brilliant, brilliant album!" Dave Marsh, music writer, former music editor Rolling Stone
"I think she's going to be the next great American folk singer-songwriter," says folk-pop star Ellis Paul, who has been introducing his audiences to Duvekot, and sings on her new CD. "She's writing songs we need to hear right now. I feel like I've been waiting for her to come along and join the club of travelling musicians that I'm in because we need a fresh voice to shake things up for all of us."
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