HELENA I HEAR YOU is a recording artist and illustrator from California exploring the human shadow and hero’s journey through her music and artwork.  She attended University in Southern California in 2008 and majored in fine arts, then wrote music and toured the U.S. as a singer songwriter before giving up music for a steady career (which has proven to not be in the cards) some 6 years.  This is her first project since.

West Texas-born Sydney Wright grew up learning and loving music, and she has cultivated a sound that is entirely her own. With a spectrum of influences ranging from early Coldplay, Kimbra, church hymns, and musical cultures that she studied for her UNT degree concentration in Ethnomusicology, it’s a wonder knowing she has said that most of her songs start out as country tunes. Drawing heavily from poly-rhythms, with loops of piano, guitar, beatbox and doo-wops, her performing skills are practiced and mesmerizing, with an impressive knack for creating and looping tracks during live performances. Even listening to just one song off her new debut album, her raw artistry, vulnerability and songwriting prowess speaks volumes. Followers of Sydney’s work are always braced to be surprised, as she has shown time and again that there’s more to her than meets the eye.

After studying piano and picking up the guitar at age 15, Wright quickly found herself writing music and collaborating with recently heartbroken high school friends on breakup songs. Finding that creating songs was a way to connect with people that made her feel useful and heard, Wright left home to study music and live sound, and to continue crafting songs.

Since the success of her debut album ‘Seiche’, Sydney Wright has been hard at work, releasing new music that shows off a different side of the resilient crooner.  “Tenderfoot” is a balls-out blues rock banger that features Sydney’s guitar skills as much as her voice. “DANGER,” on the other hand (recorded with Austin-based Columbian-funk band, Superfónicos) is a funky, rhythm driven dance song that features a gaita solo that wolud make Ron Burgundy blush.
 
With bandmates, Wright's performances can range from duo to quartet performing an amalgamation of live-loops and full arrangements that allude her studio-produced releases.

When she's not on stage, Wright is behind the console mixing performances as a live sound engineer. Her mastery of the physics of sound is apparent in her self-production onstage and in the studio.

Our CDs are collaborations of friends influenced by Gentle Giant and by Prog in general. The CDs are available at 
Syn-Phonic Music   http://synphonicmusic.com
Kinesis   http://www.kinesiscd.com/index.html
CD Baby   http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/VariousArtistsinspiredbyGentle

Los Angeles based singer, songwriter, pianist.  Music to rock your soul.

With well-written, lyric-woven songs...and a voice as thick, rich, sweet, and potent as dark chocolate, Carmona not only makes you savor every note, every word, she reaches deep within your soul and rips out your heart.
-Michelle Mizal-Archer, Head Writer ww.WifeyofaRoadie.com

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