ALBUM:
Dua
TAYLOR USED:
714ce
412ce
SONG CLIPS:
Rise and Fall
28K | 56K | MP3
Just Love
28K | 56K | MP3
CONTACT INFO:
Red Star Productions
P.O. Box 760
Santa Barbara, CA 93116-0760
E-mail:
antara @home .com
Web:
www. antdeli .com
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Singer-songwriters Antara Blasius and Delilah Poupore met at a Jim Messina Songwriter's Workshop in October of 1997
and have been collaborating musically ever since. They began writing original material and performing together around
their home base of Santa Barbara, and in early 2000, released the album Dua, for which each penned a half-dozen tracks.
The pair finds common ground in the songwriting inspirations of Bonnie Raitt, Shawn Colvin, Joni Mitchell and Annie
Lennox. Delilah studied jazz in New York City after performing with an a cappella group through college, and recently
expanded her guitar playing by studying with Santa Barbara blues guitarist Kenny Sultan. Antara has performed both solo
and in bands from Arizona to Alaska, and has absorbed various world music influences in her travels abroad, including
the basics of Costa Rican guitar.
On Dua, Antara & Delilah's urbane, contemporary acoustic stylings brim with accessible melodies and laid-back rhythms,
embracing elegant folk, jazz, and world beat accents. The pair's pristine voices dovetail sweetly, forming radiant
harmonies that infuse each song with supple feeling and sensitivity. Lyrically, their musical themes explore the changing
weather patterns of relationships, the soul's search for home, the parallel between life's inevitable ebb and flow and
the cycle of nature, and such social issues as preserving indigenous cultures and the pervasive gang culture among our
youth. Nature's imagery is a recurring source of inspiration solace, and strength. Studio shine arrives courtesy of
guitarist Jeff Pevar (one-third of David Crosby's CPR); Jack Lee (keyboards, bass, guitar, co-production); guitarist
Randy Cobb; bassist Randy Tico; and percussionist MB Gordy.
Says Delilah of her 714ce: "The warm, balanced tones were the perfect balance to my voice and my music."
"...Wonderful, heartfelt, sensual, honest music from two wonderfully talented friends....'twas love at first hear and more..."
— Jeff Pevar, guitarist, CPR
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