Lauri Kranz sings quietly. Quiet enough to drive most sound engineers half crazy. It is a voice that draws the listener to her, invites them in.
Her second release, All This Time We Could Have Been Friends, is a haunting 6 song mini-album, filled sparsely with piano, organs and melancholic guitars. It was recorded in Los Angeles with a coterie of musicians including Jeff Martin (Idaho), Josh Grange (Victoria Williams) and Buddy Judge (Aimee Mann, Liz Phair).
In the three years since the release of Kranz's debut album How to Disappear, the songwriter has lived in as disparate cities as Paris, France and Hartford, CT. "They are not as different as you might imagine," says Kranz, "no matter where you travel, you still end up with yourself."
Lauri Kranz is happy to be back home in Los Angeles, playing music with her friends.
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NEW LAURI KRANZ PROJECT
Lauri Kranz's new band Snow and Voices debut album is being released July
12, 2005. It will be available at your local record store or you can order
it online now at www.parasol.com
Find out more about Snow and Voices at www.snowandvoices.com
To Fall - from the new CD All This Time We Could Have Been Friends - is available as a free MP3 download. Click here to download. (PC users right click to save the file. MAC users click and hold to save the file.)
The new CD All This Time We Could Have Been Friends is now available. Ask for it at your local music store, purchase it online at pastemusic.com, cdbaby.com, retrophonic.com, amazon.com, or send $8.99 (check or money order) to: Elastic Ruby Records 7095 Hollywood Blvd. #583 Los Angeles, CA 90028. The first CD How to Disappear is available at music stores, online at amazon.com or send $13.00 to the same address.
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Lauri Kranz - All This Time We Could Have Been Friends (2003)>> CLICK ON INTERNET SPEED NEXT TO SONG TITLE FOR AUDIO SAMPLE *
1. To Fall - - [HI] [LO]
2. I Could Die of Wanting You - - [HI] [LO]
3. Everybody Wants a Lover - - [HI] [LO]
4. How to Disappear - - [HI] [LO]
5. Home Again - - [HI] [LO]
6. Your Room - - [HI] [LO]
Lauri Kranz - How to Disappear (2000)>> AUDIO SAMPLES COMING SOON *
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"Lauri Kranz has accomplished something many musicians with significantly more years of experience often never seem to grasp: she has found the perfect style for both her songwriting style and her beautiful voice. The quiet, stark, and personal nature of the music leaves you hanging on her every word, straining to pay attention, and thus despite the album's quiet nature, this is not an album meant to be soothing or lulling. Rather, Kranz uses the softer approach to drive home her personal lyrics and the beauty of her voice. It's a fantastic combination, and with some talented friends helping out, she's crafted a fantastic mini album that leaves you wanting more."
Jeff Marsh - Delusions of Adequacy, 11/24/03
HOMEBREW - Best of this month's self-made stuff.
"Other artists walking the dark side of the street include Lauri Kranz, whose fragile, captivating How to Disappear brings Portishead's Beth Gibbons to mind."
Joe Cushley - MOJO, April 2000
"In 1994, singer/musician Lauri Kranz packed her possessions, hopes and dreams into a suitcase and fled New York for the gentler, sun-drenched environs of Los Angeles. Kranz may have forgotten a few personal belongings, but the talented performer didn't leave behind her sensitive soul or her enchanting voice. Produced by keyboard player Jebin Bruni (Liz Phair, Fiona Apple), Kranz's debut, How to Disappear, is a haunting collection of songs by someone who knows how to convey her innermost sentiments. The heartbreaking opener "Not Another Girl" will forcefully tug at heart strings as Kranz cries, "But you never really knew me at all/I'm just another name in that big book of yours." Other treasures, like "Lucky One," are further testimony that Disappear will do anything but."
Bill Konig - CMJ New Music Report Issue: 661, April 10, 2000
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