Our latest release just got a great review by photojournalist and blogger, Will Bradford of Virtual Muse! The blog is concise and complimentary, a perfect summary of our music and nice take on the album, check it out here.
Just in time for our CD Release Party Tomorrow!
Cheers,
Erika Lloyd
Erika Lloyd‘s work in both Little Grey Girlfriend and her Renaissance quartet, The Good Pennyworths, was featured in the Entertainment section of The Buffalo News yesterday.
The article, Double Life; Singer in Fine Voice as an Indie Rocker, in Elizabethan Quartet covers everything from vocal technique, to performance practice, to connecting with an audience, and how she deals with those issues in both groups. It’s a really interesting article, check it out! 
It’s Going to be an awesome CD Release Party! Fri July 23rd at 7:30pm. Be there!
Wow, here’s one from the vaults! We unearthed this ancient recording while searching cyberspace. Okay, it’s from 2005.
Music by Erika Gergel is still online, check it out. It’s seven songs I wrote while going to school in Bloomington Indiana, including the very first version of “Radio.” I checked out a mic and 16 track recorder from the music library and enlisted the help of a few friends to put it together. For some reason we were recording this at 2am in one of their basements.
I was the singer (obviously) and rocking it out on the electric 88 key. Brad was playing bass. Bass? Jeff Franca was on drums and Rich Werden was recording. Two tracks were recorded separately: “Awe Man” was recorded and accompanied on guitar by Christopher Hayes and “Maria” was my final project for the class I took in Digital Performer. Which, I might add, was used as a good example for the next semester’s students.
We’ve come a long way in our recording abilities since then, but it’s still nice to hear these old songs.
Do you think we should bring any of these back and perform them with the current band?
1. Butter 2. Jet Failure 3. Awe Man 4. Radio 5. Maria 6. Draw Dolls 7. Billy’s Balloon
Smiling,
Erika Lloyd
P.S. Confused about my name? Lloyd is my middle name, I now go by Erika Lloyd because it’s easier to remember and pronounce.
This past Friday, Little Grey Girlfriend was mentioned in the music section of the New York Times! The article Embracing the Renaissance and YouTube, Too discusses all of the exciting things happening with Grammy award-winning a cappella ensemble Chanticleer, including their premiering a choral arrangement of our song, “Cells Planets,” on their upcoming world tour! (Our mention is in the 10th paragraph of the article.)
I can’t help but think of how and when that song was written: on a $75 keyboard, in a 7′ by 9′ “room” I was subletting, when I first moved to Brooklyn in 2005. No one besides my room mates and Brad even heard it for almost a year. I felt like a tiny speck in a big cosmos, I couldn’t make a wave if I tried. But, eventually we formed a band and people did get to hear it and it actually became an audience favorite. We performed it in clubs all over the city and won a battle of the bands with a first prize of a day at a recording studio. Thanks to modern technology that album was spread all over the world. It caught the ears of the right people at the right time and now an incredible arrangement, by director and composer Vince Peterson, is going to be sung by an incredible choral ensemble in cities across the globe.
If that isn’t an illustration of the lyrics of that song, I don’t know what is.
I’ll be sure to keep you posted on Chanticleer’s upcoming season and the process of this song’s choral arrangement and performance!
So Excited,
Erika Lloyd
