New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Roc-elle Records) roc-elle records is pleased to announce a new venture with Brooklyn-based indie darling
Alyson Greenfield. On July 19th Greenfield will release a new EP, with distribution and marketing services provided by roc-elle records. Playfully titled Rock Out With Your Glockenspiel Out, the album, which showcases Greenfield's singular vocals and performance style, features 5 undeniably unique covers of ubiquitous pop songs such as the '90s hits "All That She Wants" (Ace of Base) and "Mama Said Knock You Out" (LL Cool J). The compositions are played on piano and, in a nod to Greenfield's flair for instrumental experimentation, the aforementioned glockenspiel. Greenfield's cover of Coolio's smash hit "
Gangsta's Paradise" - an undeniable cultural memory for Americans who came of age in the 1990s - has already garnered buzz and media coverage at SXSW and in NYC; it was most recently featured at the 2010 International Human Beatbox Convention and was plugged by the Huffington Post. An official video of her rendition will receive a featured blog placement in the coming weeks.
A singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founder of the Tinderbox Music Festival, Greenfield experiments with pianos, guitars, autoharps, synthesizers, glockenspiels, chord organs, drums, and beatboxers. A natural wordsmith, Greenfield dove back into her musical roots while completing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Alabama, an experience which became the inspiration for her second, most well known, album, Tuscaloosa. Since arriving on the NYC scene in 2009, the musician has been recognized by publications such as PASTE, VENUS ZINE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, GOTHAMIST, RELIX, BEYOND RACE, THE DELI, BEATCRAVE, and more. Her music has been heard on Fox Televeision and Rubyfruit Radio, as well as live from the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City to the Foyer de L'air in Mali, West Africa. Rock Out With Your Glockenspiel Out will be Greenfield's 4th release. Greenfield has collaborated with Chicago electronica trio Future Rock, who remixed her song "Understand The Sky" for their 2010 release, Live At Wicker Park. She has performed the song live with Future Rock at venues such as The Music Hall of Williamsburg and Le Poisson Rouge. Greenfield's original composition of "Understand the Sky" can also be heard in the feature film Conception, by writer-director Josh Stolberg (Piranha 3D, Good Luck Chuck).
Listen to "Gangsta's Paradise": https://www.rubyfruitradio.com/?p=403
Recent press on Alyson Greenfield:
https://www.examiner.com/art-in-los-angeles/alyson-greenfield-girls-rock
https://musiccrushgirl.tumblr.com/post/5579897925/chicks-ruled-the-mercury-lounge-monday-night
https://www.womensradio.com/articles/SXSW-2011%3A-Alyson-Greenfield-Exclusive-Acoustic-Set/9053.html
https://www.audiocred.com/2011/01/alyson-greenfield-only-silence/
https://whatthemusk.com/2011/05/monday-515-machu-picchu-mercury-lounge/
Upcoming Dates:
June 5th Hillstock Festival, Clinton Hill Brooklyn
June 12th FIGMENT, Governors Island
June 14th Spike Hill, Brooklyn Songwriter's Exchange
Rock Out Release Party (July, TBA)
For more information on Alyson Greenfield, visit www.alysongreenfield.com
