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Sarah Fimm was born
amidst a tornado in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Jewish parents – a rare occurrence in
the Bible belt. Her grandmother Lilly is a survivor of the holocaust, and her
story is one of resilience, strength, and adherence to tradition. Her wedding
gown, which was made from parachute scraps in the Bergen Belsen Displaced
Persons camp during the aftermath of WWII, was temporarily on display in the
Bergen Belsen Museum in Hanover and currently resides at the Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C. Lilly is an important source of inspiration for
Sarah in both her life and music.
Sarah’s music has a
dark, chaotic mixture of rock and pop with alternative influences. Her sound is
colored with smooth, melodic rock fused with thick ethereal electronic grooves
and haunting vocals. A prolific artist who draws influences as varied as Bach,
Chopin, Leonard Cohen, Bjork, Tori Amos and Alice In Chains, she has
independently released seven albums to date.
Teaching herself to
play piano as a child, Sarah penned her first song at the tender age of 14. She
is first and foremost a piano player; her earlier works are largely based
around the instrument, and incorporate some elements that would appear more in
future records. During a troubled adolescence outside Stamford, Connecticut,
Sarah continued to study piano on her own while immersing herself in
songwriting. “My teenage years made me even more determined to do something
special with music and not just let my life fall apart at sixteen,” she says.
Once out of high school, Sarah attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston,
where she studied electronic and world music. She has since expanded to using
analog synthesizers, the clavichord, celesta, vibraphone, pump organs, and
anything she can get her hands on.
Sarah’s debut
album Cocooned (2001) received extensive radio airplay on over
500 college and commercial stations, and saw six #1 hits on MP3.com’s
Alternative charts. Billboard Magazine gave high praise to four of her fiercely
independent releases, calling her 2002 sophomore album, A Perfect Dream,
“one of the most enchanting discoveries of the year.” Her third release, Nexus,
was named one of Rolling Stone’s top ten albums of 2004, alongside major
label artists Franz Ferdinand, PJ Harvey, and David Byrne.
Following the
success of these releases, Sarah toured with Peter Murphy
of the iconic rock group Bauhaus in 2005, and with electronica band Delerium
in 2008. In 2009, she released the six-song EP White Birds,
the studio album Red Yellow Sun,
and a collection of B-sides and remixes called The Vanishing Sessions (B-Sides Part I).
In 2010, Sarah
launched what would become the ‘Karma Phala Music Project.’ This
collection of 31 tracks (including three from her upcoming release),
photography, artwork – Sarah is an avid painter – and a personal message, is
being given away for free. The project, which has been downloaded over 100,000
times on file sharing sites, is also available on a free 1GB thumb drive to
anyone that agrees to pass it forward.
Sarah’s songs have
been licensed to television shows on networks like MTV, Lifetime, and VH1 and
featured in several motion pictures. She has recorded with artists like Peter
Murphy, Leigh Nash, and Iggy Pop on yet to be released versions of Serge
Gainsbourg’s ‘La Javanaise’ and ‘Et Si Tu N`Existais Pas.’
In May of 2011,
Sarah released her seventh independent album, Near Infinite Possibility,
to great praise. On this release, Sarah layers her electronic/ambient
signature sound with slightly bolder elements from rock and Gothic artists who
have inspired her for years. Lyrically, the album follows suit with Sarah’s
previous releases, exploring messages of longing, isolation, and love.
Produced by David
Baron of Edison Music, Mixed by D. James Goodwin and Rich Travali, and mastered
by Greg Calbi, Fimm’s latest album features the talents of renowned musicians
Josh Freese (The Vandals, A Perfect Circle), Earl Slick (David Bowie), Danny
Blume (Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Jill Sobule), Paul Bushnell (Tracy Chapman,
Luciano PavarottI), Sara Lee (the B-52s), Sterling Campbell (Eric Clapton,
B-52s, David Byrne) and more.
In 2012, she plans
to release The Barn Sessions EP, a collection on USB of an acoustic
recording session held in a barn in Woodstock, NY. The USB is set to include
audio, video, photos, and more.
Sarah is now working
hard a new endeavor called INSPIRE. The initiative is meant to encourage
others to create music, art, and forms of creative expression for inspiring
change in the world of human rights.
To read more go
to: http://www.sarahfimm.com/inspire
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