Living in a Fragile Frame

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The Gatsby Twins are back. Our new song "Who are you" from our forthcoming album is out now.

Nina Fian is an independent singer-songwriter, now based in Liverpool, UK, but originally from Vienna, Austria. Music was in her blood: her father was a well known and respected Jazz musician and her great aunt was an Opera singer. Inevitably this musical background meant that Nina quickly developed a love and instinctive understanding of music, and her prodigious talent began to emerge in her junior years. She taught herself piano at the tender age of 9 and began to nurture a dream to become a well-known performing musician, setting out on a path from which she has never wavered.From singing in school choirs to forming a girls’ band, Nina threw herself into any musical activity to sharpen her skills. In terms of her artistic development, she began to take her inspiration from a diverse set of influences, from classical music to classic rock and metal. She started guitar lessons at the age of 15 and started to form bands in her teenage years. Then from the age of 18, Nina studied classical guitar for 3 years at the renowned Vienna Konservatorium.She began to develop her improvisational skills on piano and kept practising regularly. She took opera singing and piano lessons and also worked as a classical guitar teacher.At the age of 21, Nina made the bold decision to move to Liverpool, England, seeking to further her career as a musician. Since then Nina immersed herself in the thriving open mic scene, testing new material. Meanwhile she became a mother, took acting classes and performed in local theatre and a couple of short films (composing the music for one of them).Over the last 3 years, Nina has been joining and putting together bands, slowly evolving the ideal line-up to project her material. She started to concentrate more on developing her own unique style and now feels that she has finally“found herself” musically. Nina is keen to progress her music and has become a prolific songwriter/composer. She has completed her first album and is already in the process of composing material for a second album.Nina’s style is defiantly different from anything in the current mainstream, but that is not to say that is has no commercial appeal – on the contrary, it is highly accessible and melodic, yet melancholic, wistful and atmospheric. She takes her influences from many styles of music and many different artists, predominantly melancholic, progressive rock, metal and classical music.Some of her works have incorporated cello into the music which adds to the idiosyncracy and grace of the arrangements. Nina’s music has been described as “thoughtful”, “dreamy”, “wistful”, “poignant”, “deep” and “atmospheric”. She takes pride in the fact that her lyrics always convey real meaning and accurately reflect real life experiences. When composing music, Nina uses a lot of improvisation: “I don’t really think of a chord progression before composing a song, I prefer to improvise and let the ideas come to me.”

Growing up in Darlington Pennsylvania, David Louthan started out developing his music skills by picking up a guitar at age 13, and this self produced singer songwriter has never looked back.

It seems it took a while for the music production bug to bite fully, but in 2006 David set about stepping up his musical goals, and focused himself on seriously producing and recording the catalogue of songs he had started building up through his formative years.

David cites a diverse range of influences on his life, from the retro sounds of Tom petty, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and The Doors, to the slightly later sound of bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers. When you listen to David's music the influences are evident, and he handles straight ahead acoustic guitar based tracks such as the Bob Dylanesque 'Just a Kid’ as skillfully as more psychedelic influenced tracks such as 'Misguided Fear'

The term singer songwriter is often used to define a genre of its own, but most artists who classify themselves as such generally want to impart the fact that the songs are telling the story.

Running through David's playlist of songs on his SoundCloud page, he tells a story of humble determination in pursuit of your dreams, with tracks such as 'Family' reminding the listener of the age old adage that if they follow their heart, they wont go far wrong in life.

Something I'm sure we can all relate to is the tale of growing up too quickly and succumbing to the pressures of adult life. Sometimes we'd all like a day off and spend the day in the proverbial candy shop, reliving those carefree days of our childhood. David's message in the song 'Just A Kid' reminds us that there's a higher power helping us out in life, which should give us permission that quitting our worries, and taking time out to get in touch with our childlike side wouldn't do us any harm now and again.

A similar theme runs through the laid back piano and acoustic guitar melodies of ‘There’s A Place’ which arouses a very 60’s influenced feeling, encouraging us to find that part of our psyche that gives us the freedom and serenity to create and visualize our dreams. Going by the creativity contained in his catalogue of sad songs, I’d say that in his music David Lee Louthan has definitely found ‘his place’.   
Review by Simon Adams

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