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Hailed by key tastemakers and national press alike, Melody Klyman’s debut album, ‘Sovereign’ brought her early acclaim from The Guardian, Clash Magazine, Time Out, and beyond.

Melody is now back with her sophomore album entitled ‘Bending The Knotted Oak’ due for official release in Feb 2010. The new album is more live, more organic and more representative of the myriad of influences Melody experienced growing up from Kate Bush, This Mortal Coil and the Cocteau Twins to Killing Joke, Nina Hagen and Siouxsie & The Banshees. She does however cite her true influences for the new album as Edward Gorey, Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss.

Canadian born UK based Klyman trained as a classical pianist from the age of 6, and wrote her first songs while at school. At 18 she formed an indie band in her native Canada and played the club circuit. After being wooed as a solo artist by a major label at the age of 20 she quickly tired of being treated “like a product”, still looking for a more suitable direction she declined and began to set her sights on the UK.

After a move to the UK she fell in love with rave and club culture and in the intervening years moved between both countries. She performed with dance artists in Canada and has sung and written for a number of dance producers around the globe using an alias picking up a gold disc and numerous plaudits along the way.

While Melody’s writing exploits in the dance arena were successful, her true musical inspiration is reflected in her diverse love of artists from the more alternative and song-based genres. Wanting to make music that bore all of her influences she made a home in the UK in 2005, reinvented herself for a 21st century audience and stamped it with her own personality and her highly distinctive voice.

You can also hear Melody’s vocals on producer Soil In The Synth’s debut EP singing a cover of Ultravox’s ‘Dancing With Tears in My Eyes’ channeling Midge Ure and in a collaboration with Future Funk Squad and The Crystal Method on the tune ‘Isolate’ featured on the latest Future Funk Squad album ‘Disorders of Skill’. An original version of this song entitled ‘I Isolate ‘is also found on her new album.


www.melodyklyman.com
www.myspace.com/melodyklyman
www.blackwingrecords.com

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