About: Susan Enan
'Her
forlorn, hyper romantic lyrics are what you'd expect from a girl who reads
Shakespeare' ~ Rolling Stone
"Plainsong" 8.4/10 - Paste Magazine
"Plainsong" by Susan Enan is included in Paste Magazine's
'Eight Criminally Underrated Albums From 2009' list and listed as one the top
50 albums from 2009 at www.amiestreet.com.
Susan Enan released her debut album
'Plainsong' in 2009. In 2006, while demoing songs for the record, Enan began
receiving worldwide attention after her track "Bring On The Wonder"
featuring Sarah McLachlan, appeared on the second season of the Fox show Bones.
The song was also featured on the shows soundtrack two years later. It took
another 6 months to wrap up the record proper which features Enan's remix of
"Bring on the Wonder" along with 9 other tracks.
In June 2010 Sarah McLachlan recorded her
own version of "Bring On The Wonder" for her seventh studio album
Laws of Illusion. Susan is currently embarking on a worldwide house concert
tour called "Bring On The Song".
Enan grew up in Cambridgeshire, England.
After moving to Liverpool to study music, she began playing the local singer
songwriter scene. It was during these years she discovered a love for film scores
and the simple, yet intelligent, folk songs of Woody Guthrie.
'What I liked about Woody Guthrie was the
reason he wrote and how that informed his writing style. It had to be simple so
the political songs could be easily remembered for the sake of the cause, yet
the songs where also very smart. I love that combination in art: simplicity
that goes right to the soul but doesn't have to bypass the brain on the way.'
After leaving Liverpool she moved to
Northern Ireland and continued to write and record a few small EP's released
locally, but it was the Moonlight EP (2003) which began to get more attention
internationally. It led to an opening slot on a three month US tour with Ohio
based band 'Over the Rhine' which in turn led to a signing with Nettwerk Management
and a move to New York in 2005. By this time, she had all the songs that would
become Plainsong but finishing the record was still a way off.
'Yeah, what with one thing and another it
did take time but there were always encouraging signs along the way, like the
Bones show picking up 'Bring On The Wonder'. All those things really helped to
keep the momentum going.'
The self-produced record was recorded in 5
different countries, much of it in Enan's small home studio in Brooklyn. It was
finally released in July 2009 and features co-production from Alan Bezozi,
musical appearances from Ashwin Sood (drums), Steve Schiltz (guitars), Graham
Maby (bass), and vocal appearances from Declan O'Rouke and Sarah McLachlan. It
was mixed in London by Alan Branch and mastered by Jon Astley.
Plainsong is now available both as a
digital download and on CD from the online store at www.susanenan.com where
Enan and her parents are mailing out the discs from New York and her home
village in England.
'BRING ON THE SONG" HOUSE CONCERT
TOUR.
In January 2010, Susan decided to take a
short vacation to Nashville, TN. Hearing that 'house concerts' were becoming
more popular she wrote a post up on Facebook asking if anyone would like her to
give a concert in their home while she was in town.
After an overwhelming response from all
over the US and further a field, and the success of the show in Nashville, she
wondered if it would be possible to travel the world stopping off along the way
to give concerts in people's houses, video blogging the journey.
With enough of her fans signing up for the
experience she bought a video camera to film the journey and began plotting the
routes determind by where the fans lived.
The first stops were in Europe and England
in May 2010. in the summer, Susan drove 10,000 miles around North America with
the camera gaffer taped to the dashboarfd of a car so she could fim as she
travelled. She gave concerts in 22 towns and cities along the way including at
a Cathedral in Texas, on a porch in Kansas and on a rooftop overlooking
Chicago, beginning the concert at dusk and ending with the moon high over the
city skyline. She filmed her adventures; from travelling down the Mississippi,
to milking her first cow at the Ohio State Fair and driving through New York
City along 42nd Street.
The British tour in the Autumn of that same
year was a 3,000 mile trip as far North as Rafford near Inverness, down to
Mevagissey in Cornwall. She played 13 houses, 1 inn, and on an air force base,
after a squadron leader wanted to a concert there. She travelled through
England, Scotland and Wales, down Lochness, through thr Glencoe mountain range,
along Hadriend's Wall and over the notorious Hardknott Pass in the Lake
District, once again with the video camera taped to the car.
Susan has just finished the tour in
Australia and New Zealand, including performing a house concert for one of the
communities in Christchurch, which was heavily affected by the recent
earthquake that destryoed much of the city.
In April, May and June she returned to
Europe starting in Porto, Portugal, travelling through France, Spain, Italy,
Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and Norway. The final show was 300kms inside
the Arctic Circle in Tromso where she fished for cod in a fford and witnessed a
rare midnight sun solar eclipse on a mountain overlooking where the house
concert would be two nights later.
The next UK/Irish tour began in Scotland on
the 29th June and ended just south of Dublin 5 weeks later.
In August 2011 Susan began the last leg
traveling around North America again with 34 shows around the country,
including two house concerts in Folsom Prison. While there Susan had the
privilege of participating in song share; the weekly session where inmates
share what they have wrriten whether it be songs, poems or prose. The tour
finished in Montclair, New Jersey on the 3rd December.
Although Susan took some much needed time out in 2012 to write, she is back
doing house concerts and working on a new album in 2013.
The intimacy of these concerts along with the
video blogs accompanying the journey make the "Bring On The Song"
worldwide house concert tour a truly unique experience, and the roadtrip of a
lifetime.
OR
Susan Enan – Official Website
http://www.susanenan.com/
Susan Enan - MySpace
http://www.myspace.com/susanenan
Susan Enan - Reverbnation
http://www.reverbnation.com/susanenan
Susan Enan - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Enan
Susan Enan - Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Susan-Enan/14535975351
Susan Enan - Twitter
https://twitter.com/susanenan
Susan Enan - World United Music
http://worldunitedmusic.blogspot.com/2011/05/susan-enan.html
Videos!
Susan Enan - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/susanenan
Susan Enan - Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/channels/119799
Buy Music!
Susan Enan – Official Store
http://www.susanenan.com/Online+Store.aspx
Susan Enan - Bandcamp
http://susanenan.bandcamp.com/
Susan Enan - Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Plainsong/dp/B002R9DSAQ
Susan Enan - iTunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/susan-enan/id127995280
Susan Enan - Rhapsody
http://www.rhapsody.com/#artist/susan-enan?&_suid=136379144687704440031334080823
Susan Enan - eMusic
http://www.emusic.com/album/susan-enan/plainsong/11664977/#!/artist/susan-enan/12401532/
