"there's a stranger in your smile / has been for awhile / it's hard to breathe / I don't know you now like I did / do you still know me?"
Elliot Smith left a huge impression on listeners / fans, many of whom became artists, singer songwriters, musicians. Listening to "solitaire", the title track of Sam Vano's debut EP, and you can't help but think of Smith. Vano's aesthetic here does not feel overly copycat-ish and, in fact, "solitaire" is pervasively beautiful, feels earnest and real but within the guitar shapes and melodic down turns like faint remembrances you may feel amalgams of 'Between The Bars', 'Memory Lane', 'You make it seem like nothing' (maybe), just in tiny bits and pieces, wonderful fond embraces.
In the end, those kinds of feeling still feel like sad hugs and that is something good, really good.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/samovano/
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From Sam Vano:
I always have trouble writing an artist bio. It’s like meeting a new person at a party you’ve been half-invited to, the awkward small talk, introducing yourself in the same regurgitated few sentences and then feeling like they’ll forget everything you just said, including your name, as soon as the conversation is over. Because you’ve both had this chat a million times, so what’s there to remember?
I could tell you that I’ve been writing songs since I was a kid, that I used to be half of the duo Sam & Julia, that my desert island album would be Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan but I’d find a way to sneak Blake Mills’ self-titled debut album on there too, and that I’ve recorded an EP that I’m excited to share. But it might be more memorable just to listen and make up your own version of that conversation at the party.
Sam Vano, folk, acoustic folk,The Netherlands, folk, acoustic, singer songwriter, somber, melancholia, debut EP "solitaire", The Netherlands,
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