Biography
Her voice is all soul, with a range large enough to cover a variety of influences. Her melodies are haunting and intense to provoke an immovable familiarity or melancholy within the listener. She writes her music at night and her lyrics transcend a nightmare and a dream. Her reality appears as the poignancies of her subconscious poetry, while promoting hopeful nostalgia in her musical resolve.
Chersea has an uncanny ability to arrange her vocals, melodies, and lyrics into a wall of sound, perfectly suited for and complimented by her Loopstation. By combining a multitude of percussive and melodic tools, she is able to conjure dream-like soundscapes and hypnotic worldly rhythms.This is the Chersea sound!
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As a one-woman-band her selection of melodies layered with a compliment of instruments, provides a dynamic and seductive live performance that awes the crowd. The live show can be metaphorically compared to a chamber music ensemble with juxtaposing harmonies, roles, and dynamics. However, in the end, it’s just Chersea and her Loopstation.
Being fairly new to the Vancouver music scene she has already been featured on BBC Radio 4 by Tom Ravenscroft (interview at 25:10 – 28:14) as well as by Kirk Hamilton in his blog 3am Revelations. Chersea also competed in the 2013 Boss Loop Station Canadian Championship, winning first, putting her at the top of her game.
After she releases her EP Grey Matter – set for a mid-April release – she will be performing at 2014 festivals including Canadian Music Week in Toronto, One Man Band Festival in Montreal, and Casse-Tête Experimental Music Festival in Prince George, BC.
She aims to inspire all listeners to dream big dreams through her live performance; showing how musicality, technology, and inspiration can make almost anything possible.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.