elyseszabo + Musician in Calgary, AB

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(Updated Oct 22, 2024) Looking to start up a(nother) project/ band, with a focus on creating tender, spacey, strange and heart wrenching melodies (mainly acoustic, or with subtle/ understated electronic components). Would love to find some folks who can get together on a weekly basis (at least) to create and practice. Playing shows and recording together could be pretty fun, too! I have access to a rehearsal space in the mid-SE of Calgary, but it's a bit chilly in the winter so I'm open to other rehearsal spaces.

Ideally, I'd mainly be playing my baritone ukulele and singing (though can play other instruments as well), and am looking for additional members to play such instruments as cello, drums/ percussion, guitar, bass (upright or other), keys/synth, harp, horns, and other vocalists for harmonies.

If you're a vocalist with song/ lyric ideas of your own, I'd potentially be cool with taking a more supportive role for your tunes with backup vocals, or uke/ keys/ guitar, or maybe we could just write some pretty stuff together.

I have the bones of several completed songs with fairly clear ideas of how to flesh them out with other musicians, and many half-written ones. Two of the demos on this profile are songs I would love to flesh out with a band.

I can't read music, but I have a good ear (two, in fact), and have been able to slap together rough recordings with Logic Pro to capture ideas well enough to present them to other musicians.

I also play in a local indie/alt band that is on the verge of releasing our second album, have a fair amount of experience playing shows, and have been on tour across Canada once (and would be open to touring again someday).

Please contact me at: elyseszabo y a h o o . com

Screen name:

elyseszabo

Member since:

Feb 05 2014

Active within 1 week

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

25

Gigs played:

10 to 50

Tend to practice:

2-3 times per week

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Feist, Alice Boman, La Loye, Flyte, Aure, French for Rabbits, Rose Droll, Patrick Watson, Daughter, The Acorn, Sufjan Stevens, Sharon Van Etton, CRUMB, Warpaint, James Blake, Daughter, Emily Haines, Jose Gonzales, Lucy Rose, Barr Brothers, Washed Out, The National, Patrick Watson, Arcade Fire, Mimicking Birds, Youth Lagoon, Animal Collective, The Album Leaf, Baths, Mother Mother, Phantogram, Yeasayer, The Dodos, Local Natives and so, so much more.

Instrument experience:

Acoustic Guitar:

Advanced

Background Singer:

Advanced

Rhythm Guitar:

Advanced

Ukulele:

Advanced

Vocalist:

Advanced

Vocalist - Soprano:

Advanced

Electronic Music:

Moderate

Keyboard:

Moderate

Lead Guitar:

Moderate

Other:

Moderate

Piano:

Moderate

EQUIPMENT

Yamaha acoustic w/ preamp, Fender mexi tele, Beta 58 microphone, basic home recording set-up, and an egg-shaker, baby. Looking to buy tube amp.

MUSIC