Message In My Head

Cold Wind

Track 1 from the CD War No More (c) Liza Roure 2015

What You Want

Words & music Liza Garelik Roure

(c) Liza Garelik Roure

Midnight Lightning

Recorded live @ Local 269 July 19th 2012

Words & music Liza Garelik Roure

(c) Liza Garelik Roure

Song About a Pigeon live @ Local 269

Another of the tunes we recorded with Wayne Koehler at the Comfy Cave - with Liza on drums & Ian on bass...

Playing Checkers

Recorded live pre-hurricane Sandy Friday October 26th at Freddy's Bar & actual grill...

Message in My Head live at Freddy's

Take us to the Stars live at ZirZamin

See also: http://lizasongs.com/

Tracy Island is an electric duo from Brooklyn that plays progressive retro-pop: songs with form and sophisticated lyrics that push boundaries, and music which draws inspiration from the 60s, 70s and 80s. They’ve garnered comparisons as eclectic as Blondie and Richard Thompson.

Since the year 2000, Liza & Ian Roure’s musical collaborations mixing New York City lo-fi new wave, West Coast jangle-psychedelia, and the poppier side of British folk rock have been heard worldwide on three studio albums and two international tours featuring Liza’s songwriting as Liza & the WonderWheels (2002-2010).

Duo performances since the summer of 2012 under new project name Tracy Island have been well received for allowing intimate access to Liza’s “ferocious vocal chops” (Lucid Culture), politically aware lyrical intricacies and memorably melodic tunes, as well as Ian’s guitar virtuosity.

2015: WAR NO MORE, the first Tracy Island album, is released November 3 with a party at the Bowery Electric in New York City.

The nine songs were written by Liza, and Tracy Island played all the instruments on the album with Liza laying down vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, drums, drum programming and percussion and Ian contributing electric 6 and 12-string guitars, vocals, bass, and percussion. WAR NO MORE was recorded by Wayne Koehler at the Comfy Cave in Brooklyn, and mastered by Scott Anthony at Storybook Sound.

“Now, at last, Tracy Island have a characteristically catchy, brand-new debut album, War No More… What You Want, a perfect marriage between cheery 60s Carnaby Street riffage and vamping, watery, chorus-box new wave…  Low Strung reaches back toward 70s folk-rock but with a Beatlesque stroll… The album’s most gorgeous and troubled number is Cold Wind, the duo’s aching vocal harmonies over Ian’s ominously chugging bassline and super cooled rivulets of vintage chorus-box guitar.  The enigmatic instrumental break midway through offers a fond nod back to the surprisingly focused jamming that the WonderWheels would often break out… Ian’s meticulously timbered blend of flash and focus have never been in better form, and the same can be said for Liza’s early-spring brook of a voice, so clear that you can see yourself all the way to its depths. You’ll see this album on the best of 2015 page at the end of next month.”  Delarue, New York Music Daily (November 2015)

The creative heart of Tracy Island beats strongly and wants us all to become simultaneously both a more genuine and more iconic version of what we already are. Sail up and knock on the clubhouse door for art rock sounds that feel unique, accessible and true. 

