Jana Hunter

Carrion

Jana Hunter

There's No Home

Jana Hunter

Blank Unstaring Heirs Of Doom

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Live

EUROPE////////////JANA HUNTER + BEACH HOUSE

12/11/08 : la [2] de apolo - Barcelona (ES)
13/11/08 : Tanned Tin festival - Castellon (ES)
14/11/08 : Moby Dick - Madrid (ES)
15/11/08 : CAEP - Portalegre (PT)
16/11/08 : Cabaret Maxime - Lisboa (PT)
17/11/08 : Passos Manuel - Porto (PT)
21/11/08 : Le Romandie - Lausanne (CH)
22/11/08 : Covo - Bologna (Modena) (I)
23/11/08 : Mattatoio - Carpi (Modena) (I)
24/11/08 : RetroPop club - Cesena (I)
25/11/08 : Circolo degli Artisti - Roma (I)
26/11/08 : Magnolia - Milan (I)
27/11/08 : Whelans - Dublin (EIR)
28/11/08 : Le Guess Who Festival (Tivoli) &8211; Utrecht (NL)
29/11/08 : KB - Malmö (S)
30/11/08 : Tavastia - Helsinki (FIN)
01/12/08 : Vega - Copenhagen (DK)
02/12/08 : Cargo - London (UK)

JANA HUNTER

MP3: Jana Hunter - "Valkyries" | One Sheet: Download PDF | | Press Photos: 1 2 3 4

A dark pop musician hailing originally from northern Texas, Jana Hunter has been writing and recording, if not releasing, songs, for the past 16 years. Hunter's songs, usually featuring many overlapped tracks of her own voice, acoustic and electric guitars, and Hunter's first instrument, the violin, were recorded on tape machines for the better part of 10 years.

After a show in 2003 and subsequent friendship with Devendra Banhart, who took great interest in Hunter's work and distributed it to many friends and colleagues, Hunter left Texas and moved to New York. She played shows frequently in New York, and forged working relationships with other musicians living in New York at the time, like Castanets and Cocorosie. Hunter's first records, a split 12" with Banhart (on Troubleman Unlimited) and her debut full-length (Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom; on Gnomonsong) were released in 2005.

Although Hunter's early work was largely influenced by Western pop music (she names Beck's One Foot In the Grave, the Velvet Underground's ...& Nico as two notable influences), because of her association with Banhart and other friend musicians, Hunter's records were and have largely remained classified as that of a western folk musician. Hunter herself has said that she "didn't know shit about folk until I was well into my 20's" and that her music not only has little to do with folk, but also in large part (with the exception of some pieces on the split record) doesn't even so much as merit an association with folk music.

Hunter began an extensive touring schedule in 2005, and has to date played around the United States, Canada, and western and northern Europe multiple times. She will visit eastern Europe for the first time in December of 2008. Her recent releases include There's No Home, and the Carrion ep (both on Gnomonsong,) which were both met with critical acclaim. Hunter is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.

For domestic booking, write to jonathan@korkagency.com.

For international booking, please write here with the subject "booking: (city/country)."

Links: Jana Hunter on MySpace | J HUNTER/anchoret music | Wham City