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CHRISTINA ANTIPA

Christina Antipa was a classical oboist who studied and performed in various groups and settings throughout California. She had a passion for classic rock, folk, pop, and experimental music, and before long had transferred her energy to guitar and songwriting, coming out with her first album in 2003. The album was a starkly simple collection of low-fi 4-track recordings entitled Goodbye Different Oceans, and was later picked up for distribution by french label Waterhouse Records.

Antipa relocated to Seattle, Washington in 2004, and came out with her second album, Everything Starts to Sing, in 2006. This album was also a self-recorded, low-fidelity, experimental work, and was created during one dreary Seattle winter when the singer was experiencing a bout of what she explains as “mind-numbing seasonal depression, unemployment, romantic disillusionment and general malaise”. It’s no wonder that fans have referred to Antipa’s music as “sad-core”. Everything Starts To Sing is distributed by Bicycle Records.

Her third album, The Royal We, was her first excursion into the world of digital recording, and the contrast between The Royal We and earlier albums is audible. Antipa invited a number of talented guest musicians and friends from the Seattle area to participate musically in the recording process, as a way of commemorating her final northwestern album before returning to her home state of California at the end of 2009. The Royal We was a very interesting experimental work. It still featured Antipa’s trademark mellifluous, island of the lotus-eaters vocal sonority, but the segue into digital recording meant that some songs were plain, traditional folk, while others were modern, electronic concoctions. The rest fell into a pleasantly original intersection in between, and lent a startlingly eclectic quality to the album as a whole.

Christina Antipa recently completed a tour in the United States and France, and will release a new record, Dirty and Wrong - Songs Left Behind, on April 20th, 2011.

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