KyrO!

The DC days with Dan Mudge, Ben Peters and Mike Tony Echols.

Haunted

Harmonics

It’s midnight and I’m trying out a new possible cover. Will finish the track if you like it…

Way Down We Go

Learning to use the talkbox with my theremin.

talk box baby

It’s midnight and I’m trying out a new possible cover. Will finish the track if you like it…

Sorry about the vox, kitty was on the rampage.

Steady

Working on an arrangement of Burna Boy’s, Wetin man go do.

Wetin Man Go Do  - acoustic cover

Free to Breathe

moody, groovy, sexy, original orchestral strings mixed in heavy deep trip hop beat and groovin bass line that makes you wanna gyrate. Oh, and a weird time change and dj scratches.

Sunday (Trip Hop remix)

Winner of "Best Cover Song" at the 10th annual Independent Music Awards. . 

The judging panel included Seal, Fall Out Boy, Portishead, Counting Crows, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Suzanne Vega, Tom Waits among others.

Low originally by Cracker

I Do (PSM Remix)

I Love You

I Do

Just a taste of what I might do to this timeless Prince song.

Times.

She Drives Me Crazy

To Love Somebody

Produced by PSM
Featuring vocals by Lindy LaFontaine


Bang Bang originally by Nancy Sinatra.

The Missing Link of Lo Fi

Bang Bang Ft. Lindy LaFontaine

Blah Blah Blah

Puppet on a String

"When seasons are changing 
I have so much to say" 

A lustrous sheen of shimmering electronic orchestration frames the evocative voice of singer/songwriter Lindy LaFontaine. Segueing effortlessly from an intimate lower timbre into a soaring arc, it is a voice of rare power: It is the sound of her soul. 

On her debut solo EP, This too, In time, Shall pass, Lindy worked with producer Stewart Myers (Rachael Yamagata, Jason Mraz, Rhett Miller) and a cast of world-class musicians including pianist Patrick Warren, and guitarist Mark Goldenberg, to craft celestial soundscapes that mirror the tone of the songs. "My writing tends to be atmospheric," she notes. "The piano is my tool, but because I'm interested in rhythm I translate that to phrasing as a vocalist." Two trip-hop remixes, "I Do" and "Sunday", expand the atmospherics and the possibilities. 

LaFontaine prefers to work at night without a set clock, a consequence, she says, of having grown up in extraordinary locales from Bangladesh to Washington D.C.; Cairo, Egypt to California. At 16, Lindy was enrolled in San Francisco's prestigious High School for the Performing Arts and at 18 was the second American to ever be invited to study at Sir Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in the UK. Soon after, she toured Spain as a backup vocalist with Chanteuse Maria Jose Hernandez.

Graduating from LIPA with honors, she returned to the U.S. and a quick succession of cities: New York City, Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, before staking her claim in San Francisco. In D.C., the band she fronted, Kyro, made impressive industry inroads. As a solo artist, LaFontaine completes that promise. 
In March, 2011, Lindy’s cover of “Low” by Cracker, won Best Cover Song at The 10th Independent Music Awards. The judging panel included Seal, Fall Out Boy, Portishead, McCoy Tyner, Counting Crows, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Suzanne Vega, Jesse Harris, Tom Waits, Aimee Mann, Jonatha Brooke among other notable artists and music industry professionals.

LaFontaine believes that her music is well suited to travelers on journeys both outbound and inward. A deeply introspective writer, she relates that her unusual childhood has given her a substantial emotional center. "I spent a lot of time by myself and in my head. I was aware of this, I did a lot of imagining." Hints of these locales color the arrangements and sensibilities of her art. She recalls the prayer call of the muezzin echoing through the streets of Cairo and the hypnotic rhythmic patterns of the doumbek. "I could hear counter rhythms and ghost notes in the types of beats they play. I grew up really feeling that." 

The title of the EP is a phrase that Lindy's mother would use to comfort her. "Anytime I had a problem, would feel alone, or struggled to fit in, she would say it. I have it tattooed around my ankle and on a big sign in my studio. The meaning is very deep and it is a part of me." Multi-textured, complex and soulful, This Too, in Time, Shall Pass is a transcendent introduction to an artist whose music is her home.

Lindy LaFontaine

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