"Lush and theatrical...This is her best album yet." - Indie Music
"...if you like music, you need to get this record." - Collected Sounds
"5/5 stars...this is a gorgeous, if notably dark, collection of songs." - Musical Discoveries
Singer-s [+]"Lush and theatrical...This is her best album yet." - Indie Music
"...if you like music, you need to get this record." - Collected Sounds
"5/5 stars...this is a gorgeous, if notably dark, collection of songs." - Musical Discoveries
Singer-songwriter, Terami Hirsch, believes in embracing the imaginary. Hirsch's literate alternative pop music combines low-fi electronics with haunting piano melodies. Decisively departing from the standard collaborative model of album creation, Hirsch's artistic process is solitary and searching. Described as "cerebral theater," by Indie Music, with songs that Collected Sounds calls both "beautiful and eerie," Hirsch's music is complex, vibrant, and intimate. Says Hirsch, "With each album, I try to transport my listeners to an unexpected musical world created by the intersection of sound and language." A Los Angeles native, Terami Hirsch began taking piano lessons at the age of five. "I remember sitting at the enormous grand piano in our living room, and feeling a profound sense of wonder and escape." As a student of classical music, Hirsch is drawn to the mathematics of Baroque composition, but moved by the aching beauty of Chopin's nocturnes. Hirsch acquires additional inspiration from contemporary artists such as Kate Bush, Paul Simon, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.
In addition to formal music training, Hirsch attended Art Center College of Design, graduating with an emphasis in cinematography. Hirsch studied a wide variety of artistic disciplines: acting in independent films, writing poetry, pursuing experimental photography, and starting her own web-design business. Perhaps because of these interests, Hirsch also acknowledges the films of Jean Cocteau, the surrealist photographs of Man Ray, collages by Picasso, and the poetry of Jack Gilbert as additional influences upon her music. But more importantly, Hirsch's multi-disciplinary knowledge gave her the creative and technical tools necessary to control the entire process of album creation from composition and production to cover art.
Despite Hirsch's classical and technical fluency, it wasn't until she took time off to live in Ireland, that she found the courage and inspiration to begin her career as an independent artist. Arriving during the rainy season, Hirsch fo
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