Edito de After The Fall (Live in NY)Soulful singer, songwriter, & keyboardist AMY CLARKE delivers powerful, dramatic music with intelligent lyrics and emotional depth. Blending her classical training with eclectic international influences, she is a dynamic performing artist - commanding either a grand piano or synth keyboard while mixing effects on the fly. In 2006, Amy recorded, produced, and released her timely, socially conscious EP After The Fall on her label MAAT Music (in conjunction with ScorpFaery Productions Publishing) which is receiving radio, TV, and satellite airplay (Sirius Satellite Radio, local NY radio, national FM radio) She also visited several major cities on her first solo mini U.S. tour, playing to packed houses in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and Denver. Amy is currently writing and recording new material in her studio in Williamsburg, where she lives with two inquisitive birds and a magical garden. ***************************************************************************** Clarke has performed all over Manhattan & Williamsburg, Brooklyn including notable rooms: The Cutting Room, Rockwood Music Hall, Pianos, The Bitter End, The Triad, CB's 313 Gallery, The C-Note, Kavehaz, Caffe Vivaldi, The Duplex, PS 122, Starlight, M1-5, Sin Sin, Laila Lounge, Life Cafe, The Slipper Room, M Shanghai Den (residency), in benefits for Theatres Against War, The Sturm Und Drang Theatre Company, FHB Theater Productions, Planned Parenthood, Habitat for Humanity International, Off-Broadway, and on local, cable & internet TV. Amy Clarke is a member of ASCAP, NAPM and The Songwriter's Hall of Fame, GoGirls Music, Songsalive!, is an Equity Membership Candidate, and is the co-founder of Open Soul Productions, a music collective in NYC. She also helms ScorpFaery Productions - a publishing and production company. AFTER THE FALL (2006) ? EP Review Amy Clarke is classically trained with an award winning background in vocal, music and theatre arts. Her numerous credits in performance sheds light on the intensity of the artist's rapid development to producing the 5 song ep, "After the Fall", (2006). This is a beautifully written, arranged, performed and creatively mixed cd. Hearing influences of Heather Nova and Tori Amos in most tracks, Amy's individual talents shine forth in this recording. The music arrangements move fluidly with piano and keyboards, programmed electronic percussions, stringed orchestrations, guitar, bass and strong vocals. (Lyrics are found at www.amyclarke.com, not included with ep.) Each tune has it's own rhythmic, trance-like mystical motions of sound throughout the arrangements, strong vocals emphasizing the changing world of our existence, reminding us of the foolishness of holding on to how it used to be. Track 1, "After the Fall", is recorded live with only Amy singing and her piano. The crisp vocal starts out immediately "AM, New York, September Fourth, After the Fall"....and her piano leads the melody along as the listener hears a chilling story of post 9/11 world. Track 2, "Not Your Landscape", takes on political challenges to women's right to choose or perhaps, in a broader view, how our rights are slowly being taken from us after the world had said "never again." The track "Wolf" is superbly arranged with guitar, bass, strings, effects and vocals all done by Amy. Additional drums on this track were by Dustin Cook. Amy is a focused artist with a vision and purpose both to entertain while urging listeners to be more aware of what's surrounding us. With her background in theatre and a flair for the dramatic, the love song "January Mourning" turns the mood to love, loss and a heart yearning to be free, although recognizing there may not be a happy ending. Amy hits the piano keys with a force of power, a sorrow emanates as the chords hit the minor tones. A song to close one's eyes, reflect on the moment of letting go to what once had such promise and hope. Amy's gift is in telling a story we can all relate to..."now I guess I'm going to have to make up my own morning...guess I'm gonna have to disappear...oh my dear....guess you were the one". Amy closes the cd with "Fight or Flight", a song who's intro is sensually charged, groove-driven with piano pointedly laying over the beats. Words to symbolize rising from the ashes as the Phoenix. "Don't tell me there's nothing left to do, When giving up is what they want from you. Rise rise rise rise rise she said, No this isn't the end. I don't believe it is over yet." With the artist now working on her first full length cd, I believe it's just the beginning of a beautiful, poignant and fruitful artist's journey. Toni K. ? Songsalive! www.songsalive.org (After The Fall EP) "simply beautiful" GoGirlsMusic.com "A wicked piano player and fantastic songwriter" Drew Brody, M-Lab "Very impressive...as always, what surfaces in (Clarke's) music is passion and soul." Rick Tippett, THE WASHINGTON POST "haunting...phenomenal" - Songsalive! For tour dates and more info please see: www.amyclarke.com myspace.com/amyclarke *****************************************